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Out These Key Topics!
Online Music Markets and Forecasts
Online Music Services
Restructuring the Network for
Advanced Multimedia Services
Information Sharing Between
Different Environments
Streaming Media Segments
Digital Online Music Standards
Recording Industry Association of
America
Network Strategy
Operating System Focus on Media
Delivery
Music
is universal. Everyone loves music. Doctors, lawyers, kids, moms, daddies, old
people, babies, everyone loves music. Most people prefer listening to music
than to making music. Online music downloading has been enormously popular. The
industry has struggled a little to reign in illegal music downloading. That
battle appears to have been won.
Online music markets are set to grow. By making music accessible and with
prices set at a reasonable cost, defacto industry standards are being put in
place. The defacto industry standards are coming from Apple, Real, and
Microsoft.
Service providers have 500,000 songs available for download. Celebrity play
lists are one way of attracting listeners to a site. Online music providers
feature exclusive tracks from major artists.
Online music single costs range from$.79 per song to $0.99 per song and $10 for
an album. People can compose their own albums. As prices for songs drop to
$0.29 per song by 2009, markets will achieve new growth. The music industry is
set to take some lessons from the DVD industry.
The broad acceptance of the Internet is creating demand for a means of music
media content delivery. Digital music media is set to leverage the Internet
transmission system. Consumer markets have accelerated demand for sophisticated
communications transmission.
Apple has achieved a dominant position in the music industry by making
downloadable music easily available. The company now accounts for one percent
of the music industry revenue. It is well positioned to address growth in
online music.
Virtually all music will be downloaded by the end of the forecast period.
Traditional retail outlets have failed to address the changes brought by the
Internet.
A market of downloadable music services includes Apple iTunes service. Hewlett
Packard is including Apple music software on its machines. HP is positioned to
help Apple expand its online music service beyond Macintosh computers to the PC
market that uses Windows.
Rhapsody offers unrestricted access for file-sharing. People can listen to
hundreds of songs or hundreds of albums for the same low price. That
flexibility is helping make Rhapsody the leading online music service for
consumers.
Rhapsody has an unlimited listening approach designed to encourage subscribers
to explore a wide variety of musical artists and styles. By paying $9.95 for
unlimited access to the service library of 28,000 albums, people get a bargin.
Napster offers a free trial to get people to try the fee-based music
downloading service. Napster features top streams. Napster offers access to
tracks. Napster premium permits listening to and downloading 500,000 tracks for
$10 per month.
500,000 songs from all genres of music are available. Napster seeks to make the
digital music experience is easy and fun for all music consumers. Integrating
popular devices with the service allows Napster to make it easy to move digital
music onto a device directly.
Napster focus is on consumer choice. The nucleus of the digital music service
is positioned to ensure that music fans have high-quality experiences.
Individual needs are a priority. Over 60 devices from a variety of
manufacturers are available that support WMA. Napster provides music in WMA
format. This gives Napster customers the combination of device, a music
service, and a flexible, high quality music format.
Markets at $359.1 million in 2003, are expected to be $14.7 billion by 2009.
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Apple Computer |
MontVista Software |
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