Bob Stuart and his Meridian team have a nice take on compressed audio. 'When MP3 came along people didn't say "great it's worse",' they told me at the official opening of Meridian's first boutique store in London, on the Chelsea Kings Road. 'They said "great it's convenient". We've now got to do something to get people interested in quality again.'So, on the face of things, it should be good news that the mass market for music downloads is now starting to slump. Unfortunately, this is because the mass market for streamed music is booming. Sites like Deezer, Spotify and 7Digital are letting more people listen online, in real time.
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