From: Erik Gaderlund (gaderson_at_mac.com)
Date: 2004-01-18 01:32:51
At 12:04 PM -0500 01/17/04, Bob Davis wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hans De Bock [mailto:hdebock_at_hotmail.com]
>Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 11:45 AM
>To: Acid Jazz
>Cc: Bob Davis
>Subject: Re: [acid-jazz] The future of music consumption?
>
>
>>>it sure is a threat, but maybe those big libraries of music will only be
>interesting for lets say 'freaks' - regular people just want 1 disc a time,
>don't they? without browsing through all those tracks..<<
>
>Remember, these discs would have sorting/search software included
>that would allow you to pull
>up anything you wanted within seconds.
>If I had this much music on a small number of disc's, I'd probably
>buy a dedicated computer
>with maximum hard drive storage and connect the output of the
>computer directly into my home
>sound system...
Like, this:
http://www.linn.co.uk/spec_sound/products.cfm?range=knekt&refererURL=http://linn.co.uk/#136
granted it's unbelievably expensive, and you have to rip your own
disks. Or this magnificent example of Swiss engineering:
http://www.goldmundusa.com/productwireless.html.
Or for the more practical: http://www.tivo.com/4.9.asp,
http://www.rokulabs.com/, http://www.elgato.com/products/eyehome.html.
It seems that hard drive storage is the wave of the futur, the real
battle will be what quality of music will be on there. I like many
still find vinyl to have a bit of an edge.
And, lastly I don't remember the composers of Europe, and Asia,
holding off on creating music because they couldn't sell their
records (actually such a thing didn't exist.) I think people will
still be making music the distribution will have changed.
erik g