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Interesting data on the rise/fall of music delivery - eye-wateringly ugly animated GIF - Tufte would have a field day with this. Small multiples or better, to show trends, sparklines or animated bar charts (reminding of EQ sliders) to make it much more obvious and easy to read.
Agree that looking at the data, in the midst of the rise of the CD, it would've been easy to think, as a music executive, that it would last forever.
But even James Bond knows CDs aren't forever. ;)

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Study is from 2005 - is there more recent info? Music and entertainment industry continues to obsess about this - one way or another, the genie is long out of the bottle.

"Downloading 'myths' challenged

Music fans prefer dedicated music players to MP3 phones
People who illegally share music files online are also big spenders on legal music downloads, research suggests.
Digital music research firm The Leading Question found that they spent four and a half times more on paid-for music downloads than average fans.

Rather than taking legal action against downloaders, the music industry needs to entice them to use legal alternatives, the report said.

According to the music industry, legal downloads have tripled during 2005.

In the first half of 2005, some 10 million songs have been legally downloaded."

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Innovation in the music industry - in this case, bandcamp provides a prebuilt yet customizable platform for bands/artists to not only host their music, but also to manage ecommerce, buzz tracking, and real analytics on their tracks. No more quarterly, arms-length reporting from the label - it's all in YOUR hands, as the artist.

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Prepping a lot of iPad coverage - thought I'd step back to my roots as a Music Synth guy. The business of music and the production of music have certainly changed dramatically over the years.

"Rana Sobhany, http://twitter.com/ranajune , rocked the house over the weekend at the iPad Dev Camp in Silicon Valley and here we learn how she was DJ'ing there. You can find her DJ site at http://www.destroythesilence.com/ and she's put all the apps she's using here: http://www.destroythesilence.com/apps"

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Many paths to audio search - in this case, you take an iPhone, an iPhone app (Shazam), turn on the mic for Shazam to listen to a clip (playing on your car radio perhaps), and matches the clip to find the artist, album, etc.. Findability - it's not just se

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