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Tuesday, April 29, 2003 Digital Music I remember when Mp3 first hit the scene when I was in collage. I wasn't too impressed. There was no widespread file sharing, and hard-drive sizes weren't really big enough to support massive libraries. WinAmp was a CPU hog and my PC at the time had problems handling them. I really didn't give the format another thought except for the occasional TV theme or funny parody until I bought my current (and aging) PC in the summer of '01. At that point napster was at its hight, there was an incredible piece of software called MusicMatch, and my new PC could play them without breaking a sweat and had 60 gigs of hard drive. That really revolutionized the way I listened to music. I could make diverse "mix-tape" like playlists, or just put it on random and listen for DAYS. Then I bought an iPod shortly before getting married. Being able to carry 2000 songs around with me at all times was pretty amazing. Yesterday Apple launched the next revolution. An on-line digital music download service. Fully integrated into the new iTunes 4, you can buy a single song for $.99 or a whole album for $9.99. The service uses AAC, which is the "new MP3" featuring much better quality. There is some DRM on the files, but you can still burn them to CD and play them on up-to three different macs and unlimited iPods. Currently the selection is limited; they advertise 200,000 songs, but that really isn't as many as it sounds like it should be. But they will be adding new songs and artists every Tuesday. I can see this service being really dangerous for my wallet. $.99/song could add up fast... posted by JMV | 4/29/2003 09:43:00 AM | |
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