The industrial Revolution of multifaceted cloud music

Scientific American magazine recently published an interesting article, as early as the end of 19th century, a French company named Theatrophone used telephone lines to set up a music listening and subscription service in Paris. Users can pay to listen to the dedicated telephone in public places, and can also enjoy music performances at home. This service is actually using the microphone laid in the music theater to transfer music to the user terminal in real time, in our view this may be too lame, but in the absence of wireless communications, no smart devices in the era, this is undoubtedly a genius idea.

The genius idea of Theatrophone company in the end of 19th century

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Interestingly, this pattern is so familiar to us today. To think about it, this is the same as the cloud music service that is now starting to pop: users need to pay to listen to music, rely on some kind of communication network, (in most cases) there is no local storage media, in music lovers ear, the sound quality is unsatisfactory. If from the 1892, from the telephone line, to radio waves, to the Internet, the similar cloud music services have also experienced more than a century of development, who can say now is not just to the ripe time.

As Amazon first launched a cloud Drive,google followed by music Beta, as well as the Apple Sync Service, cloud Music seems to have entered a fiery period of development. Looking at the current market, regardless of the intense competition in the field of subscription online music services (such as Pandora, Rdio, Spotify, MOG, etc.), cloud music storage services, or the interest shown by social giant Facebook, All suggest that the wave of cloud computing is about to start a revolution in the music world. How will consumers, record makers and musicians react to the revolution? What will be the future of music consumption?

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