What Digital Music Distribution is and Why it is Significant
What's at Stake?
Traditionally, music has been recorded to physical media, like CD or cassette now or like vinyl in the past, and distributed to music consumers through retail stores. "Digital music distribution" simply involves the transport of the product, recorded music, to the consumer via a non-physical, digital method
According to Mark Hardie, a senior analyst at Forrester Research, "consumers want a digital music format that allows a great deal more control of the content they choose…it is inevitable that we will have a music industry that distributes it products digitally.”
Music recording industry - annual worldwide revenues of $65 billion In 1998, nearly 20 million Americans visited music-related sites3 In 1999, Americans will spend $35 million on CDs; $1.6 billion by 2002 In 1999, piracy cost $10 billion in lost sales, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. The future of the industry Economic fortunes
Source RIAA 2000
Ten year record sales Source RIAA 2002
MP3 (MPEG Audio, Layer 3)
Fifteen years ago, in 1987, the Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits), a developer of microelectronics circuits and systems, began a project known as "EUREKA project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting". The institute worked in conjunction with Professor Dieter Seitzer of the University of Erlangen at Nuremberg to produce the powerful audio signal compression algorithm that would eventually become known as "MP3".
Without data reduction, digital audio signals typically consist of 16 bit samples recorded at a sampling rate more than twice the actual audio bandwidth (e.g. 44.1 kHz for Compact Disks). So you end up with more than 1.400 Megabit to represent just one second of stereo music in CD quality. By using MPEG audio coding, you may shrink down the original sound data from a CD by a factor of 12, without losing sound quality. Factors of 24 and even more still maintain a sound quality that is significantly better than what you get by just reducing the sampling rate and the resolution of your samples. Basically, this is realized by perceptual coding techniques addressing the perception of sound waves by the human ear.
A year later, in 1988, the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) was formed as a working g...
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...dicially established rule stipulates that the author of a piece of content relinquishes control over the use of the content once it is sold.
Price is another key win for the consumer. With most traditional record companies' cost structures changing, lower prices are sure to follow. Companies may worry that a customer's downloading an MP3 file might preclude the purchase of the song on CD. That theory doesn't seem to hold. According to Gerald de Melo, a consumer with a Web site dedicated to the legal issues surrounding the MP3 format, some people "use MP3s to 'try before you buy'. They wouldn't have considered buying certain CDs if it wasn't for MP3s." According to Michael Robertson, CEO of MP3.com, "we had a chance to meet with one of the larger retailers for [the Rio MP3 player], and we asked them, 'Hey, do you know what people are buying when they come into your store and they buy a Rio, what other things are in their shopping cart?' They did a report and what they found out was that the average person buying a Rio bought five CDs at the same time". That would not indicate that digital music distribution is driven wholly by the consumer preference for free content on the Web.
Red-green color blindness is not uncommon in the general population. The unequal crossover in the X-chromosome which causes this disorder is much more easily achieved than the mechanisms which cause other types of color blindness, due to the proximity of the two pigment genes. Five to eight percent of men are affected with this genetic condition, and due to a lacking pigment, have trouble distinguishing between red, green and brown. (1)
This is a revised version of MP3. Theoriginal Sucked ass so I took some liberties with it so as not to get an F. This one should be much better......
III. This is the recording industry which even though their sales have been steadily declining due to internet piracy it is still an industry which has great importance in our lives. As college students alone spend about 450 million dollars on music, according to Harris Interactive a worldwide market research and consulting firm. Ever since the birth of recorded music, it has defined our eras and defined each and every one of us. Music has been and always will be the soundtrack of our lives.
“There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas” (Quiet). You probably find it as no surprise that introverts and extroverts differ in a multitude of ways. Looking for a job? When I was, I came across multiple employers seeking an energetic person. In other words, an extrovert. Now mind you, I was applying for introverted jobs. I’m Currently working at a library despite their job description stating they were seeking someone with an “energetic” personality. But you see if I ran a company, I wouldn’t post what personality type I want. It just doesn’t make sense to me. If anything, I’d want an introvert to be working by my side. Despite the human species overall flaws, it seems as though introverts are more knowledgeable due to their second nature of taking time to think before they speak whereas extroverts will speak now and think later.
More men have this disease because of the way it is passed down by the chromosomes. The X chromosome is the cause of colorblindness. Since boys’ chromosomes are XY’s they only need one affected X to be affected. Since girls have two X’s and colorblindness is a recessive trait, they would need to have two affected X chromosomes, where the boy only needs one to be affected.
There is hard liquor, such as vodka, rum and gin. Beer and wine are two other types of alcohol. Each kind of alcohol has different concentrations of alcohol and the amounts affect people differently. The higher the percentage, the higher concentration of alcohol it contains. Drinks containing a higher percentage of alcohol can get you intoxicated faster. For example, vodka has anywhere from 40 percent to 50 percent alcohol. Beer only has around 2 percent to 6 percent alcohol. The hard liquors usually have a higher percentage alcohol and get you drunk faster. Alcohol percentages are not the only factor in how much alcohol you can handle. Your body type is a huge factor in how much alcohol you can drink before getting drunk. Some of these factors are your weight, and gender. Body weight determines the amount of space through which alcohol can diffuse in the body. For example, if a person who weighs 200 pounds drinks the exact same amount of alcohol as someone who weighs 130 pounds, the person who weighs 200 pounds will have a lower BAC. Alcohol is metabolized at different rates in men and women. It has been proven in a study that women have less enzymes that break down alcohol than men do. Eating on an empty stomach can affect you differently than if you drink on a full stomach. Drinking on an empty stomach can upset your stomach and digestive system. Eating a lot of
In this case, there are three main effects of Napster on the recording industry. The first one is that it caused a large decline in record sales in a short time. According to this case, the spending on recorded music in U.S dropped 4.1% in 2001 and the industry’s top 10 albums also sold much less compared to the year before. The second effect is that it cased the sales of CD burners, blank CDs and digital audio players increase and nowadays, most new computers come with CD-RW drives installed, which means people can easily store downloaded music, share music with friends and take it with them anytime as well. The third effect is that it increased the cost of recorded music. Once people can download free music through peer-to-peer software services, they have less incentive to buy original editions, which will make recording industry spend more to fight against copyrights and invest more in new artists and new music. Overall, these three effects make the recording industry go through a hard time.
When we think about physical development our minds probably jump to some sort of sport or action that involves physically moving our legs and arms. In early childhood the physical is at work
Motor development is directly associated to the advancement of our capabilities for voluntary physical movement. However, these changes take affect through the duration of our life, the most significant changes for humans occur between birth and 2 years of age. Motor skills is defined as “the learned ability to move some part of the body, from a large leap to a flicker of the eyelid” (Berger 2008). When a baby is born, they immediately are able to move their legs, grab things with their fingers and show facial expressions. This is due to the automatic movements that we refer to as reflexes. These reflexes includes the ability to maintain oxygen supply, maintain a constant body temperature and the ability to manage feeding, which are all essential for survival (Berger 2008). Usually at about 5 months, babies start to develop what 's called gross motor skills. According to Dorothy Einon “gross motor skills are larger movements a baby makes with his arms, legs, feet, or his entire body.
Over the first 18 months of an infant’s life, motor skills also develop very progressively more. This development can primarily be linked to a process called maturation. Maturation is natural process where the genetically determined biological timetable develops. For example, many milestones, such as crawling, walking, sitting, and standing are recorded during maturation. These progressive actions are depended on by the growth and development of the central nervous system.
Development occurs from the inner body to the outer body. Which pretty much means that children Development also starts from top to bottom. Children need to control their head first, then they will gain control over their legs and feet. usually develop or gain control over their arms before they develop control over their fingers. Development also starts from top to bottom. Children need to control their head first, then they will gain control over their legs and feet. In the United states , 25 percent of babies walk by 11 months of age . 50 percent within a week after their first birthday, and 90 percent by age 15 months (Frankenburg
A newborn child’s physical and motor development is an evident progression throughout their first years and later in life. A child’s motor development is more of a slower progress, from going to gross motor skills to more fine motor skills in a few months while physical development is an apparent process. The environment affects children in their physical and motor growth, as they learn and adapt to new stimuli everyday as they develop. Separately, these developments start at different times, but function hand in hand as a child grows. Physical development is apparent at conception, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence; while motor development
As infants grow in size their motor skills improve through body movements. Through fine and gross motor skills infants learn to master movements, such as sitting, crawling, standing, and walking. These sensory and motor skills follow a genetic timetable, which is influenced...
The three major motor developmental theories are maturation, sensory processing and dynamic. Maturation refers to the biological growth processes that begin at conception and lead to the maturity of the body. These innate (inborn) changes occur in the body, brain and nervous system automatically in an orderly sequence at about the same time for most children. Because these changes are innate, they are not influenced by environmental experiences. Many of our basic abilities are closely tied to maturation. Maturation consists of three stages of motor development which are Equal Lateral (both sided motor movements), Lateral (one-sided motor pattern movements) and Bilateral (opposite side or cross pattern motor movements).
The music industry started in the mid 18th century with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Through the decades there has been a great increase in this industry; however, the revenues for this industry have declined by half in the last 10 years. This has been caused by music piracy, which “is the copying and distributing of copies of a piece of music for which the composer, recording artist, or copyright-holding record company did not give consent” . After 1980’s, when the Internet was released to public, people started to develop programs and websites in which they could share music, videos, and information with...