Feslmogh used our news submit to tell us about an article over at FOXNews. Online music stores, such as Apple's iTunes, are more and more successful and thus the question arises, will full 10- to 15- song music albums become extinct?
Besides the online music stores, file-sharing is of course also very popular and although the RIAA has recently been planning to threat hundreds of people using P2P software, file-sharing is definitely here to stay:
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"Everyone's been trying to figure this out for five years," said Rogers, who also co-founded Muse.Net, a service that makes it possible to listen to personal digital music collections from any computer. Now, getting people to pay for music online "doesn't seem so far off," he added. "But five months ago it did." Mark Coleman, a former music reviewer for Rolling Stone said the downloading revolution has only hastened a trend that was already happening. "I don't think the Internet has caused the death of the album," said Coleman, author of the upcoming book Playback: From the Victrola to MP3: 100 Years of Music, Machines and Money. 'It facilitates what's been going on for a while. People want a greater selection." He cited high prices and low quality as the main culprit in the demise of the album. "Albums are too long. There are too many mediocre songs and they're too expensive," he said. 'When I was reviewing records in the early '90s, we noticed the best songs were at the beginning of a CD and then it would drop off." |
According to the article the future of downloading is still unpredictable. The music industry is entering a new era that will benefit at least one group, the music fans.
Source: FOXNews
