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The iPod’s introduction to the MP3 market favored the worldwide spread and use of the product thanks to its simplicity, efficiency, attractive design. It came along with iTunes, a media player and library storing and updating all the songs on a computer. It also offers to purchase music online in the iTunes store. The launch of the iPod, in 2001 was an attempt to fill in people’s frustration and make it become a popular product among a large

The world we stay is changing drastically, as a result of all the new exploration that have been made over the years. These new discoveries have been aided by the production of quality music and attracting more people. It is evidence that music is growing massively, and changes with the

It’s intriguing how the music industry has significantly changed throughout the years due to the constant increase of technology. There are many different reasons to show how technology has made a huge impact whether positive or negative on this phenomenal industry. Music cultivates so much meaning to the world, and speaks volumes on the behalf of individuals when they don’t know what to physically say. That being said, whether it’s listening to music, creating it, or marketing it, technology has opened many new opportunities and ways for people to express themselves through music.

The current malaise afflicting the recorded music industry can be traced to the development of digital downloads to the market. Recorded music can now be compressed and made available in a digitally transferable format known as MP3. However, due to the digital nature of the format it is easier to share

The music industry has been undergoing a massive disruption owing to the change in consumer behavior with regards to how they consume music. As a result, the

iPods have positively influenced the way people all over the world listen to and share music in the blink of an eye. Since Apple introduced the first iPod in 2001, 350 million iPods have been sold as of September 2012. That’s enough iPods for every single person in the United States to have their own device with twenty million still left over. Those are some pretty staggering numbers, considering more iPods are sold every second.

From the invention of first recording device in 1877 to cassettes to digital recording in 1987 to MP3 in 1990 and to iTunes in 2003, the music industry has become an important global industry in last 50 years. The evolution of the music industry has given a boom to the economic activity in many geographical scales. Technological development has been playing an effective role for the evolution of the music industries. Looking back at the success of these music businesses, it used to be all about fun, dignity, entertainment and business. There were no issues regarding our social and cultural values nor there were any piracy issues. But gradually with the evolution of the music industry, it has also challenged our social and cultural boundaries.

 Within the last twenty years, the music industry has experienced drastic changes. Information and Communication technology has impact almost every aspect of the industry, ranging from its supplier to consumer, be it positively or negatively.

Kristian David Olson once said, “Music is an important and extremely useful tool in the way we learn and to deny its power is a waste of a truly wonderful resource.” Indeed, music is one of the most powerful forms of influence and has not failed to impact society at any age. Music is one of the oldest art forms to impact culture and has been around before anyone can remember. On average, people listen to hours of music a day, whether as background noise or as an enjoyable activity. Therefore, it is not surprising the impact music has made on society. Music has been an influential force for how humans think, act, and even positively affecting our intelligence. Music speaks to the soul and that is why it is so influential to culture. Therefore, music has affected the lives of everyone in one way or another and how they have become. Music plays an important role to all ages and makes life better for them. It is known to help with health and mental health, intelligence social interactions, and even has positive effects on the brain. However, to every good side there is a bad side, including music which involves vulgar lyrics about violence, explicit content, drug use, and music videos with negative impacts.

Perhaps one of the greatest innovations in the early nineties for music was the mp3 player. This may be due to the fact that the mp3 has had a huge impact upon both the music industry and societies listeners. Weinstock stated that, “the world of the mp3 is a fast-growing music technology available to anyone with Internet access. Fan are promoting the mp3 as the most personalized music form ever created that will propel music into the next millennium” (9). The invention of the mp3 is notable for producing and changing the music industry’s role through the changed in the copyright and ownership issues. In what follows, I will argue how the face of online music is changing mp3 players. Firstly, through examining the numerous ways people can download and transfer music onto their mp3 handheld player. Through drawing upon the concepts of YouTube; a website for posting video clips, iTunes; a digital media player application, Spotfiy; a music streaming service and ‘mp3.com’; a company to emerge around the idea of free music. Secondly, I will discuss the mp3 player not as software, but as an object that is constantly connected between our body and new media. I will formulate the notions of remediation and analogue to digital media as key terms that have allowed the mp3 to become such a prominent form that was crucial to the experience of music.

One direction that music research has ventured involves a focus on the interaction between personality and musical preference. The uses of music amongst individuals that have been experimented on suggest that, young people in particular use music for the purpose to create an external image to other social groups. By doing so, music may help individuals to realize their sense of identity by establishing what kind of preferences the cliques have. Chamorro-Premuzic & Furnham have indicated that, “individuals choose to listen to music as background to other activities for mere appreciation or rhythmic accompaniment (176).” Also, technological advances in digital music, for example mp3 players and compact disk have made listening to music cheap and available everywhere and at all times. Today, people can listen to music while driving, exercising, studying, or working.

Ask about any American teenager what their hobbies are, and chances are many will say, “listening to music”. Music is more accessible than ever in 2016, thanks to technology, computers, and the constantly growing use of the Internet. Just about every industry has been affected by these elements, and the music industry is no exception. Advances in technologies have had, without a doubt, a massive influence on music. However, whether this influence is good or bad is essentially subjective, as there are both positive and negative things to be said.

In this class I have learned about 1500 years’ worth of music. Not too many of us remember vinyl or 8tracks. In my parents’ day, they would sell mixed tapes and mixed CDs at school and local clubs. Now we are a streaming generation with our iTunes and Pandora apps only being a click away on our smart devices. The music industry has changed quite a bit over the last couple of decades and it is all thanks to new technology.

The relationship between music, technology and culture is obvious yet immeasurable in effect. This relationship is referred to as ‘techno-culture’. According to several essays by Andrew Ross, techno-culture is - “communities and forms of cultural practices that have emerged in response to changing media and information technologies, or forms characterized by technological adaptation, avoidance, subversion or resistance. Ross argues that “it is important to understand technology not as a mechanical imposition on our lives but as a fully cultural process, soaked through with social meaning that only makes sense in the context of familiar kinds of behaviour.” (Lysloff, R., & Gay, L. 2003). In saying this, technology and culture aren’t two separate occurrences, but more a symbiotic relationship, and when music is

Job’s saw this as the opportunity to expand the Apple company and introduce the ease of use and simplicity of the iPod into a mobile device. This increased the range of the target market to include people of all ages and all skill levels. Further expansion of dedicated Apple stores allowed new users to easily acquire a product with excellent customer service. The idea of one product for each application created a unique and exclusive Apple product experience. The release of one product each year for each