{"id":9678,"date":"2014-09-19T14:22:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9678"},"modified":"2014-09-19T14:22:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:22:20","slug":"thoughts-on-music-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/19\/thoughts-on-music-formats\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Music Formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2014\/09\/18\/thoughts-on-music-formats\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2014\/09\/18\/thoughts-on-music-formats\"><p>So I can see why people in the music business might think it&rsquo;s important to make and sell interactive, multimedia music formats (what decade is this?) to compete, but I don&rsquo;t think they stand a chance. Every trend in music is going in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Steve Jobs wrote an essay called &ldquo;Thoughts on Music&rdquo; to attempt to pressure the big record labels into agreeing to DRM-free music sales. [&#8230;] I&rsquo;m sure it&rsquo;s a coincidence, but I&rsquo;m having a hard time finding &ldquo;Thoughts on Music&rdquo; on Apple&rsquo;s site anymore. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070208225127\/http:\/\/www.apple.com\/hotnews\/thoughtsonmusic\">Here&rsquo;s the Internet Archive&rsquo;s copy<\/a> &mdash; the only live copy I found is in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/kr\/hotnews\/thoughtsonmusic\/\">Korean Hot News archive<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/thoughts-on-music\/\">Thoughts on Music<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment: So I can see why people in the music business might think it&rsquo;s important to make and sell interactive, multimedia music formats (what decade is this?) to compete, but I don&rsquo;t think they stand a chance. Every trend in music is going in the opposite direction. [&#8230;] In 2007, Steve Jobs wrote an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,182,157],"class_list":["post-9678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-drm","tag-music"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9679,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions\/9679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}