An Overview Of Present, Future of Music Technology

prostoalex writes "IEEE Spectrum magazine is running a feature article on the state of music and current digital formats. They point to an interesting phenomenon in the digital music world that Steve Jobs emphasized as well: for the first time in music history, the next big format was not about better quality (SACD and such) but about better portability (MP3). 'It was only five years ago that the music industry was facing a civil war over the next-generation disc-based music format -- the successor to the wildly successful CD. At that time, hardly anybody doubted that the music would be encoded optically on a round plastic disc the size of a CD.'"

Comments

Re:I hate round plasic discs...

[NanoGator]

"But then I want isolinear chips from startreck, so feel free to ignore me :) "

I ignored you because of your atroshus* spelling of Trek. Commander Data, you are not.

Re:MPEG AAC != Dolby AC-2

[kimota]

Well, I think if this 'myth' does spread, it'll likely take the form of "Thomas Dolby invented the iPod, thereby BLINDING us with SCIENCE!"

--Kimota!