The current technology we all use for this week's blog is digital music. There are many benefits, problems, and challenges that we face using this type of music delivery system. The benefit of digital music is you no longer have to carry around a tape player, cd player, or small player. Phone designers have integrated a digital music player into it. Problems that occur with using this technology are the restrictions of personal phone use at work, as many businesses restrict such activities. For students, the school district's technology policy determines how their phone may be used in the educational institution. The challenge facing the digital music consumer is the ability to place all of your music on your phone. I use iTunes for my iPad/Ipod, and my family uses Itunes for their iphones. I have a Google play account where I can access my music on the cloud from any device, such as my Android phone, Ipad, or computer, which is handy. It gives me one place where I know I can access my music when I need it for work or pleasure. Digital music allows us to listen to music and celebrate events in our lives. Music reflects emotion, therefore allows the user to reflect his or her mood, happiness, or sadness. Music is a part of human celebration as part of life and as we pass. When my father passed, we had the Irish song "Too ra lo ra" playing during the funeral service. I still get choked up when I perform or sing Amazing Grace, as that was a part of his service. In order to improve the delivery of this product, having access no matter your player, such as phone, tablet, computer, or internet will make the use of digital music a better experience for the user.
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I'm not sure how your suggestion would improve this technology, as there already is access across devices, as you yourself say you use Google Play to do this. Take digital music 20 years into the future - how will it be better than it is now?
ReplyDeleteI think the Windows folks are onto something with this. In Windows 8, I can access music using the xbox interface on my laptop. I have to listen to a few ads to hear complete tracks of music, with the option to purchase a ten dollar monthly fee to make the ads disappear, however I can listen to entire songs from artists I am interested in. In other delivery systems they use the ten percent rule to present the tune. I can see broader access as well as players bult into devices such as Google Glass.
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