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...kids my age, I started doing Napster. Seven hundred downloads later, my collection is hopelessly Balkanized. To listen to a Moby track, I can stick a CD on the stereo. But to hear the remix, I have to run downstairs, fire up the PC and select the right MP3. I tried ripping all my CDs onto my computer, but its 2-GB hard drive gave out before...
Solution? Buy an MP3 jukebox. Not those little MP3 players that store maybe 10 songs at a time, but the new sandwich-size devices that have enough hard-disk storage for 120 hours of music and are flexible enough to plug into your home stereo, car stereo...
...Barber of Seville to I'm a Barbie Girl--anywhere, any time and on any device with a speaker and an Internet connection. In the next three years, DSL and cable modems will bring broadband connections as fast as the campus network to the home, democratizing the access to MP3's we've enjoyed on campus for years now. Third-generation cell phones and personal digital assistants will appear with data connections fast enough to allow them to double as digital Walkmans--Walkmans that can be instantly reprogrammed with any song in existence. The era of the shrink-wrapped album...
...workaround to the objections of the recording industry, which would have rather brought back disco than allow one Metallica track to be downloaded. Now that the industry has (belatedly) jumped on the musical broadband bandwagon, there's no reason for Napster to stay P2P. As users know, MP3's on Napster are often misidentified and of poor quality. If Napster distributed songs off its own servers, which it could do legitimately in the future, it could ensure their quality and reliability. Just months ago P2P seemed an ascendant technology on the mind of every entrepreneur in Silicon Valley...
MUSIC MAKER As if remembering dozens of numbers and surfing the Web weren't enough, wireless phones can now play music, thanks to MP3 player accessories. Ericsson's sleek, brushed-metal MP3 player ($199 at ericssonus.com is designed to work with three of its newest phones. It plays MP3s stored on tiny 32-MB disks, which can hold 30 minutes of music. When a call comes in, the music stops and the earphones do double duty as a hands-free earpiece and mike. A cell phone's work is never done...