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May 07, 2006
Ipod moving on but kids going Retro?
Looks like Apple is moving the IPOD into ring tone turf. At least that is what they say in this article at Techspot:
Two patents filed by the company point towards an iPod design that can allow users to tag a digital media file on one device and network and download it to another device on another network. This is similar to how Sprint and Verizon allow you to buy a song over the air, and then tag it for downloading to your PC at some later time.
Meanwhile the Toronto Star reports that the kids might be moving in a different direction:
black wax is still being chosen over compact discs by a sizable segment of kids, David Hayes found during his thesis research."As I was interviewing kids for my thesis, I fully expected them to talk about CDs and MP3 players, but in my subject group of 30 people, a full one-third of them all talked about how interested they were in collecting vinyl by going to garage sales, flea markets and second-hand music stores, and how they felt that this was their primary format to get music," he says.
The reasons for this are interesting:
"Even the imperfections, the snap, crackle, pop of a record, the things that the music industry used to convince people to switch to CDs was something that these kids were valorizing," he says.
As the High Commander said on Season 1 of Third Rock from the Sun: "When will these humans discover the superior sound quality of Vinyl?"
Artistic reasons seems to be the big pull:
"CDs and iPods delete the entire purpose of making an album. You can just change the track, but on a record player, I put the album on and I listen to the entire thing,"
As they say, read it all.
Posted by Peter at May 7, 2006 07:40 PM