The music industry is one of the largest industries in the world. For many decades now this has been the way and there is no sign of deterioration. However people changing the ways in which they acquire music, this is due to the easy availability in illegal free music downloads from the Internet. This is causing the amount of money that can be made by musical artists to diminish.
In times of old the only way in which you could acquire music was on some kind of physical hardware like a vinyl record or a record tape, but then the first changes came about when the first CD was made.
The first medium to store music digitally so that it can be stored as a file and then put onto a computer and played was of course the CD. This was then the very first steps of the birth of the mp3.
From that, music storage adapted to the point where it was completely unrecognisable to the way it was stored in say, the 60s. In around 20 years the way we listen to music went from having to have access to a record player, which were by no means small, and your desired record, to simply having to have a device no bigger than the palm of your hand to which you can add or remove songs as and when you feel like it.
The way in which music is now stored has not only made listening to music considerably easier, but it has also made getting hold of music considerable cheaper. Music can be bought from various websites on the Internet in a downloadable (usually mp3) format for much cheaper than you could ever buy a CD in the shops. This is because as people favour the mp3 more and more, there is less and less need to mass-produce CDs, and so the companies do not have to charge as much to cover their costs. - 29943
In times of old the only way in which you could acquire music was on some kind of physical hardware like a vinyl record or a record tape, but then the first changes came about when the first CD was made.
The first medium to store music digitally so that it can be stored as a file and then put onto a computer and played was of course the CD. This was then the very first steps of the birth of the mp3.
From that, music storage adapted to the point where it was completely unrecognisable to the way it was stored in say, the 60s. In around 20 years the way we listen to music went from having to have access to a record player, which were by no means small, and your desired record, to simply having to have a device no bigger than the palm of your hand to which you can add or remove songs as and when you feel like it.
The way in which music is now stored has not only made listening to music considerably easier, but it has also made getting hold of music considerable cheaper. Music can be bought from various websites on the Internet in a downloadable (usually mp3) format for much cheaper than you could ever buy a CD in the shops. This is because as people favour the mp3 more and more, there is less and less need to mass-produce CDs, and so the companies do not have to charge as much to cover their costs. - 29943
