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Wringing more out of plastic discs won't be enough to secure the record companies' futures, though. More pressing is the need to sharpen strategies for the digital market. Record companies were slow to turn on to digital; Doug Morris, the boss of Universal Music, once slammed MP3 players as little more than "repositories for stolen music." But last year those companies saw their revenues from digital sales hit an estimated $2.9 billion, up almost eightfold since 2004. However, that's not exactly the fortissimo it may appear to be. The 38% annual growth in digital sales last year...
...ease the pressure on their revenues, record companies may paradoxically have to offer more for free. Today's music consumers shell out hundreds of dollars on MP3 players, but they spend an average of just $20 a year on downloads. To the crucial teenage market, paying for music is as outdated as picking up a newspaper. But companies can get something in return for giving them music. Advertising-supported free music services such as Last.fm pay the major record companies from ad revenue; in return, their users can stream the companies' music for nothing. Such outlets offer record companies...
...motions—such as “Squat down, pose like ‘The Thinker,’ and freeze”—and rock out together. Following the style of a similar event in New York City last summer called the “Mp3 Experiment,” this venture requested that all participants visit the group’s Web site beforehand, download the MP3, synchronize their watches, and show up Saturday afternoon ready to get down. Ondi Gottesman, who graduated from Brandeis University last year, provided the vocals on the mysterious dance...
...Athens, Milan, Stockholm and London - took part in the study published this week in the European Heart Journal. Study participants were outfitted with ambulatory blood pressure monitors, which were programmed to take readings at 15-min. intervals throughout the night. The volunteers' bedrooms were also equipped with an MP3 recorder and a noise-meter, which recorded all ambient noise, its timing and its volume. Researchers considered a "noise event" to have occurred if any sound, from road traffic, aircraft or a partner's snoring, exceeded 35 decibels (dB) - not a very high threshold, considering that a quiet whisper from...
Sound quality LPs generally exhibit a warmer, more nuanced sound than CDs and digital downloads. MP3 files tend to produce tinnier notes, especially if compressed into a lower-resolution format that pares down the sonic information. "Most things sound better on vinyl, even with the crackles and pops and hisses," says MacRunnel, the young Missouri record collector...