Rip, Dump, Mix, Fix, Cut, Burn, Share and Play: Tools for Your Personal Music

摘要

You know digital music has gone mainstream when my 72-year-old Grandpa Mo starts talking about his online music accounts. He listens to his personal selections while he sports grandma to her hair appointments and gym dates in his Lincoln Continental. He's been alternating between the best-selling DiVinci Code audio book he downloaded from Audible.com and a couple of the latest Norah Jones singles he picked up from Napster 2.0. Grandpa Mo is a fan cry from the original peer-to-peer pirates who pioneered the online digital music industry (and who must have napped through a couple of lessons on stealing while they were in kindergarten). Since the demise of the original Napster, the online music industry has retooled and the medium's first major growing pain may turn out to be a boon for the rest of us. The post-Napster-lawsuit shakeout may be a good thing for artists, music aficionados and honest digital music lovers everywhere.