From vinyl record to music cloud to see the change of music industry

The development of mobile Internet has changed the face of the whole world, and the crumbling music industry is facing opportunities and challenges. The carrier of music from vinyl records to tape, to CD, probably over half a century, from MP3 to app records for more than 10 years. Now, whether you are ready to accept, "cloud" is no longer simply a natural material, cloud computing, Cloud mailbox, "cloud" also floated into the music of the site.

Solid Age-Black Glue & tape & CD

Vinyl is the first vehicle in human history to store sound signals, and it was the dominant music format of the 20th century. For a long time, people had to rely on this big black guy to listen to music. Until the end of World War II, the market for the vinyl disc shrank, tape recording technology made a revolutionary progress, the United States after the Second World War to use this technology in the field of pop music, tape recording convenient and reliable, cheap, for the 50 's independent record company's development and expansion of the contribution, The rise of these small companies directly contributed to the birth of rock music.

In 1982, the ABBA group from Sweden released the album "The Vistors" and opened the door to CD records. Thus, the digital signal replaces the analog signal. The CD is insensitive to interference and noise and brings people near-perfect auditory enjoyment in sound quality. In the 20th century 80 and 90, the CD had occupied the Golden age of the entire Chinese music scene without any hesitation, while the nature of the CD's easy reproduction had also spawned a product of piracy, the Chinese musical industry hated.

Network Times--mp3

In the early 90, there appeared an audio compression technology, which utilizes the--mp3 characteristic of the ear to the high-frequency sound signal, compresses the file size on the basis of guaranteeing the signal not to distort, the sound quality is much worse than the CD. 1997, the advent of portable MP3, music based on MP3 format to store and adapt to the characteristics of mobile applications, coupled with the development of Internet technology, MP3 player, the pioneer of the digital revolution is popular. Around 2005, free MP3 download sites, free MP3 search engines are everywhere, almost any form of music resources can be found on the Internet Free download address.

If pirated CDs make the music industry hate, then internet piracy MP3 The music industry, with sales of global music records falling by 30% from 2004 to 2009. The industry has made such a lament, "if in the cassette and CD era, piracy will occupy the market of genuine music 90%, in the internet era, more convenient free download has begun to erode the remaining 10%." "These figures have also stimulated the awareness of the rights of Chinese musicians, especially in the past year, the music circle focused on the active protection of fire."

Smart times--app Records & Music Cloud computing

With the increasing popularity of smartphones, the pattern of listening to music over the past two or three years has come to a climax, with more and more people liking to listen to music online. In August 2011, Icelandic female singer Bjork The new album "Biophilia" to the App Store, "Biophilia" is considered the world's first complete concept of the app album. Fans can use the IPhone and the IPad to download a three-dimensional interactive app for this album, and users can play games, watch animations, read the creator's essays, and see singing Karaoke notes when they click on the stars on the Galactic interface. Chinese music closely follow the trend of the Times, Stefanie Sun, Tan Wiwi, Cao Fang and other people have launched app albums.

Music cloud Computing is the realization of the mobile music application of greater intelligence, users can use music software, the music stored in the cloud in the mobile phone, computer and television and other devices to play, share, without the user time and effort to copy from the computer storage to other terminal equipment, greatly exert the characteristics of the network interaction.