wired.com— DRM is toast. Here are seven reasons why major record labels will abandon it in 2007 -- and why that's bad for Apple.
Jan 8, 2007View in Crawl 4
"last.fm people don't seem to mind"last.fm is a service that people choose to use voluntarily, if you're willing to publish your listening habits in exchange for music recommendations. That's different from a (hypothetical) system that tracks your listening habits behind your back, even if you don't want it to.
Cd's aren't going anywhere... For god's sakes, they still make Vinyl albums! So long as there is a market for something, they will continue to make it. And somehow, i doubt the world is just going to give up Cd's and start buying mp3 files or whatever. Even with the option to burn to CD yourself, some people just aren't that tech savvy.At the end of the day, some people feel it is better to brag about have 300 albums on original Cd's than 300 pirated albums on your computer. Try getting your favorite band to sign your printed album cover you downloaded off the net.
1) Inaccurate title; mp3 isn't dying.2) "Labels that survive the CD-sales nosedive to come could decide it's time to treat music fans like paying customers" - yeah, that'll be the day.The only way the major labels will embrace MP3 is if it becomes obvious that their lobbying is not going to get them the ever more restrictive legislation they want - and at present it seems it will.I'm digging this story because I WANT it to be true, but I don't really believe it.
"but we weren't taking about movies. We're talking about music players. Been to any stores lately? Seen how small they're getting?"Not any that I would buy. Do you think the next iPod will have a smaller or a bigger screen? The answer is bigger. And mp3 players now play movies. That is the way it is. Or are you saying that people will ditch the mp3/movie player for a phone/mp3 player and get a movie player? That doesn't make sense.
wyzardJan 9, 2007
"last.fm people don't seem to mind"last.fm is a service that people choose to use voluntarily, if you're willing to publish your listening habits in exchange for music recommendations. That's different from a (hypothetical) system that tracks your listening habits behind your back, even if you don't want it to.
testdrivemediaJan 9, 2007
Cd's aren't going anywhere... For god's sakes, they still make Vinyl albums! So long as there is a market for something, they will continue to make it. And somehow, i doubt the world is just going to give up Cd's and start buying mp3 files or whatever. Even with the option to burn to CD yourself, some people just aren't that tech savvy.At the end of the day, some people feel it is better to brag about have 300 albums on original Cd's than 300 pirated albums on your computer. Try getting your favorite band to sign your printed album cover you downloaded off the net.
dtd00dJan 9, 2007
Yeah but flac is a lossless codec while aac/mp3/wma are lossy compression codecs.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_codecs">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_codecs</a>No kidding flac is going to sound better, it's usually about four to five times the size of lossy compression codecs.
Closed AccountJan 9, 2007
1) Inaccurate title; mp3 isn't dying.2) "Labels that survive the CD-sales nosedive to come could decide it's time to treat music fans like paying customers" - yeah, that'll be the day.The only way the major labels will embrace MP3 is if it becomes obvious that their lobbying is not going to get them the ever more restrictive legislation they want - and at present it seems it will.I'm digging this story because I WANT it to be true, but I don't really believe it.
arnoldtpantsJan 9, 2007
"but we weren't taking about movies. We're talking about music players. Been to any stores lately? Seen how small they're getting?"Not any that I would buy. Do you think the next iPod will have a smaller or a bigger screen? The answer is bigger. And mp3 players now play movies. That is the way it is. Or are you saying that people will ditch the mp3/movie player for a phone/mp3 player and get a movie player? That doesn't make sense.
Closed AccountJan 9, 2007
Thanx! Yet another reason why ff owns the browser market.