Nowadays, we see more and more people leisurely walking around with music devices called IPODS, MP3s and walkmans. When I mention “IPODS” I guess everyone knows what it is, the most popular device in the world.
IPODS have only been around for a short period of time, yet it has been the most common music device around. IPODS could be said one of the dearest in money terms. I have seen IPODS valued from 100 to 500 dollars. This is such a big surprise. Not wanting to be informal, a total rip-off! What has happened to the old time, favourited MP3s?
I have heard many people say IPODS are better than MP3s.
To me, I can barely find any benefits to purchasing an IPOD. There is no point on wasting hundreds of dollars on this expensive, lame thing. With that vast amount of money, I could eas...
The music industry has changed in more ways than we could imagine. At first we started with artists just selling singles, then it transformed over to people buying albums, and forn then on iTunes started to sell songs for just cents. In the year 2005, Pandora was launched on the Internet and later they created a mobile app. Most of the artist’s music can be found on YouTube. Free downloads has affected this industry as well. The music industry has found many ways to let the fans listen to the music they love. Internet streaming radios like Pandora are having to pay artist for copyright reasons. The music industry had two significant changes in the 21st century: the physical albums have dropped but streaming music has increased, even though artist get little to nothing in return.
The vibrations on our eardrums make the most interesting sounds. Some vibrations turn into voices, others animal vocals, but the most common is the vibrations of music .Observing our society one can find an individual “plugged” into some form of listening device; be it a cell phone, ipod, or old fashioned listening device. Music plays a large part of every individual's life. Whether it is composed for a movie, audience or transferred through earbuds, music has always been there. But at one point or another each and every one of us has had the urge to listen to instruments with the occasional vocals or vice versa, depending on his or her style of music. Except the process to listen is not how it seems. In Charles W. Moore’s essay “Is Music Piracy Stealing,” he attempts to explain if one downloads a song without paying the composer it is taking away from working an honest living. His argument is valid but because of his limited amount of information on this topic, Moore's essay tends to fade due to poor writing style, weak analogy, and scatter brained content.
With the release of its first music player, the iPod, in 2001, consumers responded to it in a great way, it earned itself a place in the technology plot. Other manufactures of phones and tablets try to keep up with this brand, however, the distinctiveness of its virus protection, good quality, well-formed & classy design made itself way on the top preference of the customers.
The author even goes as far as comparing it to a cult because so many people are becoming these” I Pod people”. An example is when he says “get on the subway and you’re surrounded by a bunch of stepford computers staring mid-space as if anaesthetized by technology”. Society did not used to be like that. Sullivan also says in his article that music used to be something that was shared. Today, you rarely see people sharing the experience of music like they used to; you see little white wires hanging out of people’s pockets and ears. Sullivan expresses that it is not just music that is isolated; it is almost everything on a daily basis. The author writes a convincing article to remind us to keep your mind, and ears open. There is a whole lot going on around you that you’re missing out
The author even goes as far as comparing it to a cult because so many people are becoming these” iPod people”. An example is when he says “get on the subway and you’re surrounded by a bunch of stepford computers staring mid-space as if anaesthetized by technology”. Society did not used to be like that. Sullivan also says in his article that music used to be something that was shared. Today, you rarely see people sharing the experience of music like they used to; you see little white wires hanging out of people’s pockets and ears. Sullivan expresses that it is not just music that is isolated; it is almost everything on a daily basis. The author writes a convincing article to remind us to keep your mind, eyes and ears open. There is a whole lot going on around you that you’re missing out
There are many benefits of MP3s. The biggest benefits would have to be MP3 files’ size and cost. By using great compression, MP3s are only a quarter of the size of the original file. With a typical 3-minute song, the MP3 is only around 3 megabytes. With such a small size, MP3s are easily downloaded from the Internet and shared between people. Everything that can be done with MP3s can be done freely. The audio players that play the format, the rippers that compress the audio files with the MP3 format, and MP3s themselves can all be downloaded freely from the Internet.
In today's high-pace society, technology is a way of life, which is why we humans tend to want the next best product out there. However, when it comes to mp3 players there is a vast selection, but the one that really stands out is the Ipod by Apple. This is because it is light weight and it can hold a large amount of songs depending on how big the storage is, and on Apple's latest model there is video capability. So not only does it have music but you could watch videos too. What would be even better is if there would be a digital camera on it as well, then your problems of carrying both the mp3 player and digital camera would be over. This is because this new product called the Ipod Camera/ Video would already have the camera inside of it as well as the music and video capability. This product would be directed towards people between the ages of 15-40, because people that are fifteen years old are just entering into the high-technology driven world, and people that are forty years of age are still in that time of their lives that they still make use of those little gadgets. In other words, this new product would make peoples lives easier by having both the digital camera, video and mp3 player all-in-one.
...usic with portable players. They could make it is necessary to get something like a password to listen to music with that players, if music distributors were willing to cooperate with audio device industry. Of course some people would solve the password, but normal people wouldn’t if it was not so easy.
One important change that has occurred is the distribution of music digitally. Music now in our society is purchased through the Internet. The simplicity of having an entire library of music on one device has been adopted versus having stacks of CD’s or tapes. The emergence of the Mp3 file has changed how we listen to music. Mp3 are digital songs that are portable, provide high quality sound, and are less expensive. Essentially by eliminating middlemen, digital music took control of music away from the major record companies and put the power in the listener’s hands. Major companies such as Apple’s iTunes created the distribution of digital music. CNNMoney mentions, “iTunes is currently responsible for 63% of all digital music sales” (CNNMoney). They set the standard of 99 cents for a single song, which was quickly adopted by major music companies. Selling songs by singles provided more control ...
Introduction of the iPod: The iPod was introduced into the market just in time for Christmas, 2001. The first iPod was priced at $399. Apple relied on a hard disk for storage instead of flash memory or interchangeable CD-Roms and focused on promoting the uniqueness of the small size, power, and ease of use of the device. This first iPod had a 5 GB storage capacity—which is enough to hold over 1,000 songs—and it worked only on Macs, using iTunes as a music organization and CD-to-iPod conversion tool. iTunes, digital jukebox software that let Mac users import songs from CDs by converting audio files to the MP3 format and storing them on the computer’s hard drive, was introduced in January of 2001. Along with the iPod, Apple announced an enhanced version of iTunes that included a 10-band equalizer with presets, as well as a cross fading feature for smoother transitions from one song to another. An Auto Sync capability facilitated the downloading of music from a Mac to the new portable media device. Once the music was downloaded, Apple promised 10 hours of continuous play from the iPod’s rechargeable lithium battery. The device supported MP3, with bit rates of up to 320kbits/s, as well as AIFF and WAV file formats. Its amplifier could deliver 20-20,000-Hz frequency response. Apple sold 125,000 iPods by the end of December 2001.
... in one. Satisfying this demand will be key to the growth of the MP3 player market, demand is growing for MP3 players, and there's a clamor for their prices to come down. The majority of current manufacturers are OEM makers without their own brand and key technology.
Even as I sit here typing this paper, my own shiny, rectangular piece of molded plastic and metal lies inches away from my fingertips, beckoning me to use it. Looking out the window, one of the first sights I see are people walking with one hand up to their ear, evidence this technology is in use. I can count on one hand the number of adults I know who do not own one these mobile devices. People are now able to be virtually accessible almost anywhere at any time.
Listening to music for free is the best thing in the world, honestly, without paying for something is better than anything. Music to some-people is a way of life, why should they pay for music when they can download it for free. If you download a song off the internet, you’ll have your favorite song in the palm of your hand, charge free! You can save that money that you won’t spend on a few songs or albums and use it for something more important. “Free music downloads could be a solution to our attempts to scrimp and conserve in these rough financial situations” says Frank Castle from Article Alley.
Apple doesn't just sell functional benefits for today; it is selling the excitement of a product that would change the future. Apple’s advertising creates emotional triggers such as consumers’ desire to belong to a larger gro... ... middle of paper ... ... shed these devices with added features and improvements. However, they are still the same basic devices.
...P, 2005, p 23) Around 2005 cell phones and PDAs were referred to as Swiss army knives of gadgets due to the fact they had many functions in one device. All the big phone companies at the time were premiering phones with more mp3 storage than mp3 player, essentially foreshadowing the future. (Dempsey, P, 2005, pg. 23)An average smart phone in the year 2014 can hold around 8-16 gigabytes of data, and if storage is allotted correctly, the phone can hold thousands of mp3s. Any mp3 player trying to have a foothold in the consumer market cannot compete with a device that is an essential part of an average person’s daily life, and a music player. “Smartphones with increasingly high-quality audio and video capabilities have become popular and therefore hamper demand for products in the Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing industry.” (Krabeepetcharat, T. 2013. p. 8)