Comparing digital music players

In any area of business, you have two types of entities or products competing against one another, the "major brand" and the "minor brand". The major brand is that brand that is more quickly recognized while the minor brand is one with a name just because it has to have one OR the major brand may be the product in that area of commerce at the time. This is the case with digital music players today as there are many "MP3 players" on the market right now and there is also the iPod. Consider a few areas of comparison.

Your first consideration is of the fact that you can buy a digital music player from, say, apple for around $250 while iPod produces the same 60GB player for around $400. People constantly see other people discussing the function and advancement of the iPod, comparing it to all others you believe that it is an obvious way to go, but when it comes to the hard drive, space is most important. In this case, it is as easy as saving $250!

The next consideration, if you are the type of person that gets frustrated easily with head games being played by major corporate types is that iPod requires you to use their format to play on their player. Instead of regular MP3 files that most everyone else uses, iPod requires use of their file so if you get frustrated by worthless problems; you might consider a "minor brand" MP3 player.

When it is all said and done, when you are buying a digital music player the argument is the same as just about everything else you purchase for a large amount of money, do you want to be cool or level headed? If you want to be cool and carry your newest gadget on your arm to show off to all of those around you then you need to go with the iPod and not worry about the money. If you want to save money and enjoy a lot of hard drive space to store songs in without regard to what people think of your taste then go with the "minor brand". But whatever you do, make the decisions yourself. You will be overwhelmed if you listen to every salesman you know. Choose wisely. Don't be afraid to shop around for a bargain. This is a major purchase. Don't be forced into anything. Salesmen will push you into something you may not want.

As with any major decision, you need to take your time and choose the player that you will enjoy for years to come. Test them out when you shop around. MP3's and IPods are a huge market. There are dozens of brands and styles to choose from. Also, keep an eye on the Sunday newspaper for sales listings for MP3's and IPods. Sometimes your choice of the retailer you visit can be confusing. One of the best ways to shop around is to make phone calls to the different retailers and inquire about features and prices of different MP3's and IPods.

Tips how to sell digital music

In an era where digital music is frequently pirated and distributed freely around the internet, it might seem highly difficult to discover new methods of selling your tunes. Sure, there is always going to be listeners who download albums illegally, but allowing it to ruin your day or marketing strategy isn't going to help anyone. Finding true success within the digital market is by no means easy, but never impossible if you have a decent product and the right plan.

Right off the bat, you must ask yourself what about the music influences people to purchase it, and drop their hard earned cash on one of your creations. Obviously, writing material which is inspired and enjoyable is the first step, but even this might not be completely enough. Listeners need to love the music so much it's impossible to resist, and something they can't help but share with friends and family, hoping it will evoke a similar positive reaction.

Creating a deep, diverse selection of music is another critical step in making some cash off your tunes. Perhaps if some people aren't interested in one album, there's another with a slightly different style which will pique their interest. Building an impressive discography allows potential fans to experience multiple sounds and ideas, and with enough of them, they are bound to discover something they can jam to. Once someone purchases a few songs, they'll become inclined to download more, becoming thirsty for another taste of your music.

While constructing your discography, it's also significant to remember that quality will always outweigh quantity. Just because there's an extra five tracks or so you've been dying to dust off and post online for sale doesn't quite mean they're ready for public consumption. Capturing accurate emotions, feelings, and inspiring people is what truly pushes fans to spend money, and you're more likely to capture new audiences with top notch material, rather than some B-side you don't even enjoy. Making sustainable, powerful music should be the top priority, and always before a marketing or distribution plan.

Once a record or single is touched up, completed, and prepared for release, it's time to devise an effective strategy to create some buzz and compel more listeners to try out your latest product. Utilizing social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace is a free, easy method to spread the word and drive some more traffic to your web pages. Affordable and sometimes free press release services are available online as well, which help to distribute information to the appropriate music blogs, message boards, magazines and sites. Make contacts with other bands or record labels so you can reach their audiences as well. If you've created something special, people will be listening, and the reflection will hopefully become evident in your bank account.

Piracy problem in digital music

We already know in detail how music piracy in internet, how do you think? It’s very worrying, right? I can say that because I made a comparison when I walk into a clear record store selling original tapes and went to the market, heading straight for the sidewalk vendors who sell pirated tapes. Maybe you also already been done, and you already know how much difference in price genuine and pirated tapes, right? Very far away, the comparison like this, if I buy an original tape, will be the same if I buy 15 tapes bootleg. Ironic, is not it? From there we had to make sure and it has proven most people would prefer the pirated tapes, it would be more efficient.

For that, a local company in Indonesia that carries the name of PT Indonesia Digital Generation (GENiD) develops a system to make it as a giant warehouse of digital music. The company also is developing its Ring Back Tone (RBT), but they've estimated that two to three years this service will not interest people anymore. For that reason, the company has a plan to develop more of a giant digital music storage system. With this giant warehouse of digital music, it is expected the public would obtain the latest songs only from here, no longer buying pirated tapes. And if you want to get an original copy of song for your Mp3 players, you can get here easily.

Speaking about MP3 players, you can get useful info if you are looking for Mp3 portable players. It’s free information.

Transformation of analog music to digital music

You've read the story of the transformation of analog music to digital music? For the cassette sellers must know this story. Tragic, when the process of increasing piracy crazy, many cassette shops are closed down, the manufacturer of tape that was almost officially closed. What a terrible transition process, right?

All of this is due to the emergence of digital music at that time a lot of people are very enthusiastic. You know what a digital music like that? Although it happened a long time, several years ago but you'd still know it, you might even have been involved in it. You never put dial tone to your mobile phone? Well, ring back tone that is the cause of all the tragic events of the above. This waiting tone that nearly ended the golden age of physical album sales so far. Of course this is very disturbing the minds of musicians and famous record labels.

However, the first to create digital music saw a murky situation and do something to clear up again the world music scene. Hmm.., does this include their system work?

Technology in music

New era, of course all technology takes part to adjust the era. On the old era many technology still analogue, for example in music. You easily to find recorder cassette anywhere you go, all electronic shop must provide that cassette. But now, you can find them but not like as before, so many cassette produced. Now, you can see the different, so many compact disc (CD) which is save digital music. CD can save more music than cassette. If you want to try making digital music you can do it, to make it you can use computer which is have all program to change the analogue music to the digital music (ADC or analog to digital converter).

You can change the format music, like MP3, WAV, or MIDI. Or you have idea to be a musician, you can practice it, you go to the place where the artist record their voice, you ask the people who working as recorder to teach you.

Digital era in music

What is digital era? Maybe the sentence was appropriate for our situation today. Look at almost in our days, or even have all the goods that are created using digital concept. Yeah, it's a digital items have a level of accuracy is more accurate than analog. For example, weight scales instance, if you scale your weight with digital scales then you will know your real weight, that's an accurate figure. But if you use analog scales, maybe you happy if your weight is reduced, especially women, but it's not the actual numbers. So, digital is more accurate than analog one.

Including music technology, current music processing has been using digital concept, and easier on the storage media. You may confuse as what digital music is, or you do not realize that each time you listen to music that is digital music? From start to MIDI, WAV to MP3 music player, all of this is digital music. In your mobile phone there are some music collection do you have, right? Like MP3 or WAV music format. And you can copy from your laptop to your mobile phone to change the old song to be the new song. It’s very simply.

New era in digital music

Era always develop, and also about technology. You can see now, everything have changed. From people style, like hair, dresses, home design and certainly the technology, like mobile phone which can see another people in long place, or camera which can take picture with long distance without need you approach to the objects directly, you only need the zoom lens. Even about music, for a long time ago people listen to the music through gramophone, they used black plate. At that era this tool is analogue music. This tool used pen which can tremble and bring out side sounds. This sound called analogue music.

For the second era, the technologies bring out side compact audio cassette which plays in tape or Walkman. This type is analogue music too. And for the next generation technology bring out side new era in digital music. Digital music work based on computer technology. With digital form, we can save much data.  The beginning sound is analogue, but the sound will changed with analogue to digital converter (ADC) to be digital music. Digital form have many type, there are MP3 form, WAV form, MIDI form, or AAC. The most popular form is MP3 and AAC or Advanced Audio Coding is form of digital music which use on IPod.