Rustophilus
08-29-2004, 03:17 AM
Music purchasing has been the same for several years. You go out and you buy the record or cassette or CD or whatever is being used at the time and you bring it home and play it.
In the past few years, music downloading has become popular. I'm not talking about music pirating. I'm talking about purchasing and downloading music, like with iTunes. I like the whole concept of iTunes but I still choose to purchase my music at the store. This is mainly because, believe it or not, a music store has a better variety of music than iTunes. I could go out to a music store and repurchase any of my 135 CDs but I found that iTunes only has about 2/3 of those CDs available for download. I'm hoping that this will improve in the future.
So I guess my question is - what's next? Here's what I think. I think that all music will be online. When you want a song or an album, you purchase it online. You won't download anything or receive anything in the mail. What you WILL get, is access to listen to that song anytime you want to on the internet. You will have sort of an account that you log into and purchase music and stream your library of music. This way you will always have access to your music as long as you have internet access and the music won't take up any space on your harddrive.
You're probably thinking "Well, what if you want to listen to the music in your car or some other place without internet access?" Well I'm going by my belief that pretty much everything that uses electricity will be networked into the internet in the future, including cars.
What do you think?
In the past few years, music downloading has become popular. I'm not talking about music pirating. I'm talking about purchasing and downloading music, like with iTunes. I like the whole concept of iTunes but I still choose to purchase my music at the store. This is mainly because, believe it or not, a music store has a better variety of music than iTunes. I could go out to a music store and repurchase any of my 135 CDs but I found that iTunes only has about 2/3 of those CDs available for download. I'm hoping that this will improve in the future.
So I guess my question is - what's next? Here's what I think. I think that all music will be online. When you want a song or an album, you purchase it online. You won't download anything or receive anything in the mail. What you WILL get, is access to listen to that song anytime you want to on the internet. You will have sort of an account that you log into and purchase music and stream your library of music. This way you will always have access to your music as long as you have internet access and the music won't take up any space on your harddrive.
You're probably thinking "Well, what if you want to listen to the music in your car or some other place without internet access?" Well I'm going by my belief that pretty much everything that uses electricity will be networked into the internet in the future, including cars.
What do you think?