The Future of Home Made Music - CDs Quickly Nearing End of Their Run
Found this interesting tid-bit of news in the BSharp newsletter. Makes sense, considering the pile of audio tapes and cds I got stacked up at home, it would be better if we can only download what we want to hear from a central repository and then delete and later download again when we need to hear the music that we want. Did I make sense? Read on to discover what I am talking about :-)
CDs Quickly Nearing End of Their Run
Enough is enough! The basement is full!
"We as consumers have been trained by the music
industry to go out and buy a new piece of plastic
every few years," said George Petersen, editorial
director of Mix, a San Francisco-based magazine
that covers professional sound recording. "Why do
we keep buying the same things?"
Petersen, and many other music-biz insiders agree
that, in the next decade or so, the CD will very likely
be surpassed as the album format of choice.
"The new format is no format," predicted Petersen,
a 24-year industry veteran who also owns a record
label, a recording studio and a music-publishing
company. "What the consumer would buy is a data
file, and you could create whatever you need. If you
want to make an MP3, you make an MP3. If you
want a DVD-Audio surround disc, you make that."
"We're moving beyond the media stage to the
delivery stage," agreed Mitch Gallagher, 41-year-old
editor of EQ, a San Mateo, Calif.-based magazine
for music producers. "At some point," he said, "you
won't have something to hold in your hand until you
transfer a data file to a blank disc or tape."
"We can make our own plastic," Petersen said. "I've
been thinking this is what should happen for years,
but it's actually the way we're going anyway."
Think "Dark Side of the Moon" as an invisible
cyberswirl of 1's and 0's. No CD case. No liner
notes to flip through. No...nothing. Your preferred
music star could provide a myriad of songs, bonus
cuts, commentary, videos, album art, you name it.
You, however, would have ultimate power: which
songs stay, which songs are deleted, which songs
go where.
Credit: Washington Post
Vol. 1: Iss. 2 | B# Newsletter | February 21, 2005
Publisher: MuBiz.com
http://www.MuBiz.com
Editor: Kenny Love
Primary Email: kennylove@MuBiz.com
Web Site Sign-Up: http://yahoogroups.com/group/BSharpNews
CDs Quickly Nearing End of Their Run
Enough is enough! The basement is full!
"We as consumers have been trained by the music
industry to go out and buy a new piece of plastic
every few years," said George Petersen, editorial
director of Mix, a San Francisco-based magazine
that covers professional sound recording. "Why do
we keep buying the same things?"
Petersen, and many other music-biz insiders agree
that, in the next decade or so, the CD will very likely
be surpassed as the album format of choice.
"The new format is no format," predicted Petersen,
a 24-year industry veteran who also owns a record
label, a recording studio and a music-publishing
company. "What the consumer would buy is a data
file, and you could create whatever you need. If you
want to make an MP3, you make an MP3. If you
want a DVD-Audio surround disc, you make that."
"We're moving beyond the media stage to the
delivery stage," agreed Mitch Gallagher, 41-year-old
editor of EQ, a San Mateo, Calif.-based magazine
for music producers. "At some point," he said, "you
won't have something to hold in your hand until you
transfer a data file to a blank disc or tape."
"We can make our own plastic," Petersen said. "I've
been thinking this is what should happen for years,
but it's actually the way we're going anyway."
Think "Dark Side of the Moon" as an invisible
cyberswirl of 1's and 0's. No CD case. No liner
notes to flip through. No...nothing. Your preferred
music star could provide a myriad of songs, bonus
cuts, commentary, videos, album art, you name it.
You, however, would have ultimate power: which
songs stay, which songs are deleted, which songs
go where.
Credit: Washington Post
Vol. 1: Iss. 2 | B# Newsletter | February 21, 2005
Publisher: MuBiz.com
http://www.MuBiz.com
Editor: Kenny Love
Primary Email: kennylove@MuBiz.com
Web Site Sign-Up: http://yahoogroups.com/group/BSharpNews
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