Impact of the ipod
A week ago I was at a concert about two hours to be managed at home. We believe that this type of car trips to concerts in miniature. In the past we had pop in a CD, Crank It Up for a bit, 'and then jump into a discussion of chicks, politics, potatoes, etc. The background music is played like we did not come until more things. discuss
Well, this trip was a bit 'different. The difference was that nobodydid not bring the CD. Instead, two group led ipods, who has done the radio with FM modulator. In the past, we run the CD case CD case in search of a particular CD, but once we found a CD that we made, but to do so. During long trips, it is rare to hear a CD with all the way without them.
Well, enter the iPod age. The iPod has made music television, what he did for the cable. Now you have the magic cursecalled "choice." Of course does, every choice has led to undecided. I'm not sure if only one person to flip through 200 channels on the satellite makes you mad, but I'm sure. For two hours, I saw two people who do nothing but song after the scroll. It 'was very rare, if we did more than a minute of a song. In fact, I doubt that we did through a whole song in general.
While it seems a lot, 41 days of constant music in my pocket, I carryI must say that the average iPod user may be missing. It was something to hear an entire CD in a journey that helped define the great albums. We have every five or so records that we'll never get bored with this you can always listen through the whole street. How do you know what a great record if you've never had to listen all the way through it? Sure, sometimes it is bent like a curse to hear a shitty song, but took care of the CD ratherslightly. Just use the button "Skip.
The real tragedy is not really a lot of music being heard. It seams that a device designed to make it easier to hear more music has a dramatic downside. If people do nothing but browse a song after her iPod, the iPod will remove human musical experience.
But people still try to buy larger Ipods. I remember it was a 10GB MP3enormous amount of music. Now 60GB versions are very common. I could not imagine those who need consecutive 41 days of music without repeating a single song. If it is off the iPod to sleep, he sat at 60 days of music without repeating a single song.
Where are all these songs?
Just as people fill their iPods? If you buy songs at $ 1 per song from iTunes? I have a gut feeling that most of them have lostno. Suppose, an MP3 uses 1 MB and the minute average song is 4 minutes, cost $ 15 000 to fill a 60 GB iPod. Ah! I do not know too many people who have spent $ 15,000 for the purchase of music. I do not know anyone that has spent $ 15.000 MUSIC ON!
It seams pretty clear that if the average college guy paid $ 1 per song, probably would not need an iPod is much larger than 1 or 2 GB. Yes, I know to save data to another iPodI do not know too many people around the RAW image files on your iPod travel plan.
So who pays?
The labels are still sewing to fast, even if the signature of a smaller set of artists. Only not really seam to be as enthusiastic about their profits that were ten years ago. It is no secret that if the labels are not paid, the artists are definitely not paid either.
The music is not necessary!
IRemember, just over 10 years. My family was short of cash. I decided that I care a rare Nirvana Outcesticide called three wanted. The CD costs $ 30 and had to be ordered from Japan. I decided that the only way to buy the CD and not to every room in the school for a month. (I was too young to get a job). So I did without a meal a day for a month in order to save 1 € a day and then import my nirvana. One can imagine how I felt the day I finally got the CD input me through torture for a full month to get the CD.
I was at an uncle recently. My cousin was on his computer. He decided he wanted to listen to some rare Nirvana. He opened the peer to peer software to download and preferred type in Nirvana or whatever. In about 10 minutes had almost the whole CD, I was fasting for a month.
Although there is exciting technology that is faster, a song, as it is to get the download from the CDCase and insert it into the player, the stitching, which somehow makes the music less valuable to the individual. If a listener for an album, the album has to sacrifice a bit 'more memorable.
I mean, I remember the exact day I bought many of my favorite CDs. For example, I remember that on 16 and buy Goo Goo Dolls, A Boy Named Goo ". Me and my friend drove 90 miles hour on the way home like a bunch of immature idiots. It appeared that we had my mother without noticeit. When I got home, I was sentenced. (This note is not a happy ending).
Uhh, good luck with stories about how fast you downloaded an mp3. Good luck also remember the day that you downloaded a particular mp3.
So who wins the iPod?
And 'the listener of music to win? You now have a portable music machine can record two million zillion songs. Of course, the MP3 player costs about three times as much as a portable CD player 10 years ago.With the luxury of so many musical opportunities to spend, some people much more time scrolling through the songs before. IPod can hold an enormous amount of data, but this only leads people to blindly every song downloaded from the earth. It 'nice to be able to listen to a song, but a free library of every song under the sun can do without music.
Of course, labels and artists do not seam to win.
In fact, I can only be a guy who really won, thinkOn the iPod … Steve Jobs, founder of the Macintosh.
My Links : Portable DVD iPod Buyer Guide
