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p2p news / p2pnet: One in five Americans over the age of 12 now owns a portable mp3 player, and one in 20 owns more than one.
Moreover, says a report, CD collections are still the primary source of content with music downloaders suggesting that, contrary to RIAA and other Big Four Organize Music organization claims, p2p file sharing isn’t “devastating” the corporate music industry by stopping music lovers from buying ‘product’.
"Nearly half (44%) of the content stored on MP3 players is ripped from the owner’s personal CD collection, and another 6% is ripped from others’ CD collections," says Ipsos’ quarterly TEMPO release.
Younger Americans are driving recent growth with over half of teens now owning an mp3 player (54%), and one third of 18-34 year olds (30%), says the report, going on:
"Older Americans are less likely to own these devices overall, but still represent a sizable and consistent presence in the market (13% of 35 – 54 year olds report owning a Portable MP3 Player)."
More men than women have players and nearly half (48%) of music downloaders own one, using it for 12 hours per week, onaverage.
"Younger downloaders use their MP3 Players more often (average of over 16 hours per week among teens), but have less digital content stored on their devices," says Tempo. "Overall, there is an average of 700 songs or files stored on a U.S. music downloader’s MP3 player.
And interestingly, despite the emphasis on video, "radio listening is one of the most desired additional uses for portable MP3 players," says Ipsos.
"Nearly half (46%) of teens and college-aged downloaders are interested in portable FM radio and 39% express interest being able to access satellite radio on their portable device. Older American downloaders are also interested in using their MP3 players to listen to radio broadcasts, with roughly one-third of 25 to 54 year old downloaders interested in FM and Satellite Radio capabilities (37% and 32%, respectively)."
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June 29th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
Good to hear, and it’s true for me as well. A great amount of music on my PC is from my own CD rips because I prefer to use LAME and do APS as opposed to listening to some noob’s Xing 128kbps rip of a CD.
June 29th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
I too, much agree that the stats on whole fit me. I suspect we are not the only ones. The driving force behind the digital locks isn’t to prevent piracy as claimed, it’s to try and force the resale of an already purchased product. The cartels were doing great in the days of vinyl when records wore out. Repeat buys were a regular thing. Again during the change over of formats it happened again to keep them awash in cash.
Since the days of more sturdy containers as cds and dvds, those repeats have fallen off. Admittedly, if you have children, your repeat reason is right at hand. Short of that, proper care ensures that they will last quite some time and are not subject to the wear out that occurred with tapes and vinyl. With that comes less need of people to rebuy what they already own. This idea that the repeat buy must be forced on you to continue that steady flow is the main reason for the digtal locks. Since the flow of new artists has been strangled and the cartels no longer groom artists for the long term, newer artists don’t have staying power. Predominately they are flashes in the pan with one hit and when the public interest is for something new, rarely do they return for the one hit stuffed with filler as an album.
The cartels have already gotten their money. However stockholders require a what-have-you-done-for-me-today mindset. Keeping up with the latest in profit taking is the driving force behind the cartels.
I’ve no sympathy for them and their methods of doing business. With the current atmosphere of one hit wonders, the cartels have set themselves up for a guarenteed decline in profits as the public looks elsewhere for bang for the buck entertainment. The cartels see the sue’em all as a free cash cow and nothing short of that. While the reasons are drummed to by concern for the artists, as usual nothing could be farther from the truth.
June 30th, 2006 at 4:59 am
i had no idea what the topic of this article was talking about it
i had to re-reread the title a lot of times
June 30th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Sweet man, your using lame v3.90.3 right?
And ripping with eac in secure mode yes?
July 1st, 2006 at 9:53 am
Is 3.90.3 better/different than later versions?