The Media Musical #1

In todays world of media one of the major things that it allows its users to do is listen, download, share as well as multiple other things with music. I personally own an ipod touch which allows me to listen to which ever of my 8,940 songs in my music library that I so desire to at any given time. This alone is remarkable considering a decade ago in 2001 the first Ipod was released by apple which only allowed the storage of 5gb which is nothing compared to the 68gb hard drives that are in some of the newer models of ipods.

C.E.O Of Apple Steve Jobs Introducing Itunes 10

Most computer users know that if you are going to be listening to music on your computer you are going to want Itunes to manage and even share your music if you so desire. (Do not share your music it is illegal!) Apple has completely taken over the music part of media, there used to be Napster and Limewire but now there is the Itunes store. The large majority of people in the United States that own an mp3 player have an Ipod or Iphone without a doubt because they simply are so much better than any other portable music player.

Apart from buying music on an application such as Itunes there are all sort of music sharing websites that allow users to download and/or listen to a wide variety of music. Two of these websites that I check on a regular basis to find new music are FindNewJams and HipHopEarly, of course these are just two of the millions of websites that share music. The biggest of these is youtube where you can listen to basically any song you can think of.

Just like that I was able to search an artist I like on youtube and listen to all sort of music by them as well as watch whatever music video I want that has been released by that specific artist.

It is a crazy thought to think about how far music in media has come in the last decade and how far it will go in the next.