Digital Music Delivery

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.

Apple iPad

Making the cloud work for you

The cloud has become a place to store files in quantity.  Most services offer large files offerings, where you can purchase more online cloud storage if needed.  Skydrive is my go to tool of choice, however it has one flaw:  It will not work on the antiquated computer I work with at work, and the system treats it as a "social" network.  Icloud offers opportunities to upload and download files between work and home, however, the files will only open with pages, numbers, or keynote, again due to the antiquated technology I work with.  This made Google docs my go to program to share files.  Recently, I have not been able to use Google docs as I have in the past, where I woudl upload files and then print them at work.  I guess they think I am checking my personal email versus actually uploading files that will assist me in doing my job.  Dropbox is a great tool to use and works on my older computer.  Recently there have been problems uploading and downloading files from the shared folders.  Working in the 21st century with a 20th century technology philosophy, have a great evening!