We’ve known for awhile now that digital music in general and the Ipod
LONDON — Worldwide sales of music via the Internet and mobile phones hit $1.1 billion last year, triple 2004 sales and accounting for 6 percent of global record company revenues, the industry said.
The London-based International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, or IFPI, said music fans around the globe downloaded 420 million single tracks in 2005, more than double the 156 million downloaded the previous year.
I remember when digital music first became a big deal and took off during the Napster craze. Protable Mp3 players were just coming out, but there were new and held a small amount of music. For the most part, digital music meant either listening to it on your computer or burning it on to a CD, assuming, of course that your CD player could play discs burned on a computer; something that was touch and go back then. Now, we have the 60gb IPod, capable of holding up to 15,000 songs. I’ve got about 2000 on mine right now, including CD’s that
