I couldn't help but come up with a few thoughts when I observed some changes to how RealOne displays MP3 files when they are played. It used to be that you could view artist discographies, album details, and lengthy biographies, as well as purchasing info on amazon.com. All of that has gone with a new format that promotes the company's Rhapsody file downloading service. It automatically displays some artist highlights, shows a picture of the artist, shows a picture of album if in the clip info (as before), and that's it. Some artists are NOT recognized-- it doesn't recognize Rolf Harris anymore (famed for "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"). I wondered about all of this and decided that if the goal was to have people subscribing to Rhapsody, folks wouldn't care about stuff that would read like liner notes: hence the bios got trimmed and no more discographies. If an artist was hardly listened to, you could throw it out, I suppose (but why Rolf Harris?) I got to thinking and it would seem that all this downloading has got to bastardize the music industry just a little. I mean, a majority of people will likely download what will be considered the hits and entirely miss what could be some real gems were they to buy an album. That is, I suppose, if Rhapsody and iTunes are really how music will tend to be consumed by the majority.0 responses total.
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