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Which is why Jon Myles was keen to include it in our budget system feature this month. Whatever happens, Onkyo’s super value C-N7050 streamer is one way of entering this world, Potential benefit? Or will music become like candy floss on Brighton pier, a trivial and fleeting Will this really happen? WillĪrtists benefit and music regain the value it was once accorded - a Physical media may finally cease to exist. Pay-per-listen is creeping up on us it seems and Sneaked this new consumption model past the listening public withoutĬomplaint and, for the time being at least streaming is tomorrow,ĭownloading yesterday.
I’m sort-of surprised by all this.The free model of Spotify has This may be a lesson for us, a future reality. Like Adobe see their future, except that Adobe have a rather moreĪmbitious fee scale than most. Someone else stores the music for youĪnd sends it upon request. Music libraries, but they are ‘dispersed’ shall I say! But at least I have ‘em Whatever? Like most people I suspect, I have vast picture, video and You had ‘em, but where - and on which disc drive, memory stick or Gramophone and is ending right now as the CD fades away.ĭownloads were always a bit tenuous you had ‘em and you knew Physical media arrived around 1887 when Edison wound up his No shelves heaving with the weight of LPs or silver discs to Music collection? A thing of the past, anĪnachronism. With streaming you don’t ‘own’ the music, you pay Irrespective of this little spat, and it is what listeners Is what the music business has long wanted, Not everyone is happy in the musicīusiness because from this the artists make little, whilst the delivery companyįunny that few in audio have realised that streaming It is the next big thing and taking off we are being told.ĭownloading is now yesterday forget iTunes and all else, we are now talking Enjoyed by music lovers allĭesigning & hand building UtU} (0 in England since 1985 PAGES OF LETTERS - THE BEST WINS A PAIR OFĭesigned and built to order in England by Full text of " Hi Fi World September 2015 UK"įREE READER CLASSIFIED ADS IN THIS ISSUE!