Music Downloading Paradise

Paradise Lost

2008-03-20T09:44:00.000-07:00

The dissolution of the music industry continues to have traumatic implications on our sharing of music through the Internet. The Apples iTunes' hijacking of Napster was a predictable homogeneous filtering of the downloading process to a respectable practice. Of course it had the effect of clobbering and sealing the doom of the traditional music industry and music distribution on two fronts: CDs were superfluous, and recording technology was now in the hands of the creative artists. A third element also played a role: the Internet provided musicians a means for distributing their music without a middle man.

Yet the pirating of music continues unabated, with successful appropriation of music files at no cost lauded as an achievement of honor. One university student boast that he has never paid for any of the music he plays and that he has enough files to play music continually for several years without interruption or repetition.

There are some who claim that the only illegal act is not downloading, but rather uploading. And though this might be accurate, the debate on the legality of downloading continues.

Sadly, this new distribution also represents a dumbing down of quality and standards, a decline that appears to have accompanied each technological advancement since the music peaked with hi-fidelity stereo analog production. Digital technology has introduced compression rates that preserves about 10+% of the original recording. There are generations of music listeners who have never heard anything else, so this compression becomes their model of audio excellence.

Music Industry War on Consumers: Music for All Occasions?

2006-07-04T11:01:00.000-07:00

Downloading music has become so routine that few people need assistance in how to transfer music files to their computers.

However, there does seem to be considerable angst developing about being able to use files that are downloaded. Many of the protections that now are embedded in the music files appear to severely restrict use by the person that has legitimately purchased the file from a reputable service.

A number of people have remarked that they would rather purchase CDs and rip the files from the CDs because they avoid the "use nuisance" placed in music files from on-line services such as Apple's Music Store.

We probably have not heard the last of this war by the music industry on Internet users worldwide.

Getting The Music You Want

2006-04-04T11:18:00.000-07:00

Many people believe that now that technology has made distribution and acquistion of music so convenient and easy, anything that exists on the Internet belongs to the digital domain of everyone. This point is fiercely contested by the music industry, but it is hard to stem the tide of a wave that is sweeping the world.

People are intent on getting what they want and will use all means possible and follow the least expensive route. There are three issues:

what do you want?
how do you find it?
how do you acquire it?

These are very simple questions and the answers are just as simple:

you know something by name or category
you use a search engine to locate it
you download it by right (or control) clicking, or by recording it from the desktop as you play it.

The links on this newsblog explore the issues of downloading media answering all the questions of Who, What, When, Where, and How.

Downloading Music On the Web

2006-03-30T04:55:00.000-08:00

In case you didn't notice, downloading music was the catalyst that caused the explosion of the Wide World Web as an international presence in the lives of millions.

The web began as a text-based medium, then it added it images.

Not long after that, mp3 compression was developed, making music on the web practical. Soon websites began to populate the WWW from music lovers and fanatics all around the world.

Downloading became the craze, the obsession, of people who had never even used computers before, but were now changing the face of the music industry, so that consumers became the distributors. You can imagine the fear and trembling and gnashing of teeth that such events causes the music industry.

Welcome to a site dedicated to the ongoing distribution and acquisition of music, a source of info about downloading.

Music Downloader's Paradise

2006-03-28T16:39:00.000-08:00

Music has been exploding on the Internet, erupting in the form of new music getting to a public as fast as it can be created.

This site will help you connect with music, download it and enjoy it.

We will also help you put music on the web in any format.
This newsblog contains the latest ideas about uploading and downloading music on the internet. We also provide links to all the latest downloading sites and places to connect to announce your own work.