tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697838.post1786657334551295430..comments2024-03-08T04:48:15.897-05:00Comments on globallistic: How Price Sensitive Are You?jherskowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15797190582674008000noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697838.post-69133556756549231582007-04-09T10:59:00.000-05:002007-04-09T10:59:00.000-05:00i think you should read 'the tipping point' by mal...i think you should read 'the tipping point' by malcolm gladwell. it talks a lot about markets and different kinds of personality types that make a market develop and prosper.<BR/><BR/>while i agree that most people can not tell the difference in audio quality, the people who consume the most music DO care about audio quality. the people who listen to the most music and are obsessed with it, and spread it around to other people are the ones who make the market for music move. this is my opinion but it's adapted from malcolm gladwell's book. if the labels don't focus on servicing the people who spread the music around and have taste, then you're going to have large numbers of people on iTunes, etc but a stagnant market. so it does matter that the people who are key to spreading music DO care about audio quality, and when they're alienated from buying/exploring - well you see what happens because it's going on right now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697838.post-65359814460110125392007-04-08T08:42:00.000-05:002007-04-08T08:42:00.000-05:00Regarding your position that people don't care abo...Regarding your position that people don't care about audio quality-<BR/>I think it may be a matter of ignorance. The pedestrian MP3 listener, IMHO, doesn't know (and doesn't know that he doesn't know) that Digital music files are not all the same.<BR/><BR/>A lot of my friends, who are not part of the digital music cognoscenti, don't know MP3s from FLAC, OGG etc. They just assume that because they buy a song online somewhere, and "it's on the computer", that it must be high quality.<BR/><BR/>MP3s from the early Napster days are not the same as MP3s created with LAME (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LAME).espressodailyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00285184379620494935noreply@blogger.com