James Fee
12-07-2004, 11:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.gearlive.com/archives/2004/12/the_future_of_d.html' target='_blank'>http://www.gearlive.com/archives/2004/12/the_future_of_d.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"With the information age in full swing, digital music has become another part of American pop culture. The compact disc ushered in the beginning of digital music mass appeal, and recently the infamous MP3 has been at the forefront of the movement, as well as the controversy. There are also SACDs (Super Audio Compact Discs) and DVD-Audio discs to deal with now, as they offer surround sound along with a higher fidelity. Great for the audiophiles out there. For many, digital music has no "fixed" format. It is just various files ranging between 3-5 MB in an MP3, AAC, or WMA format filling their hard drives and populating various peer to peer networks on the internet. No matter what format you use, these fairly new compression methods make it easy to carry along your entire music collection with you wherever you go, surpassing anything we could have done a decade ago. So where are we headed? The Gear Live editors take a look at the future of digital music after the jump."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/playsforsure.gif" /> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.gearlive.com/archives/2004/12/the_future_of_d.html">Gearlive</a> has a great look at the future of digital music.