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2020-01-16T16:16:09.840Z


The docu "MP3 - the format that changed the music" fascinates all of the industry's 30-year shake-up • And what's next?


The documentary "MP3 - the format that changed the music" fascinates all the shakes that have gone through the battered industry for the past 30 years. • And what next?

  • closing down. "MP3 - the format that changed the music"

    Photo:

    Courtesy of HOT8

The concepts of Napster, MP3 and Torrent sound like very distant nostalgia, when in fact they are all part of a relatively short and distant history, as described fascinatingly in the documentary - MP3 "The Format that Changed the Music".

In the late 1980s, the MP3 file was invented, the mid-1990s began to flourish in actual file sharing, and in the early 2000s, a Napster company, responsible for the music industry's big earthquake, was formed - moving from the need to download physical albums Songs on computer. Album sales revenue dropped drastically, but the arrogance of record label executives prevented them from preparing for technological change properly. Steve Jobs' charisma, confidence, and ingenuity once again made the bowl a hit with iTunes coming in, forcing the companies that were quick to move from the highly profitable album sales format to the much more modest format of selling individual songs.

Within 30 years, the music market has been completely transformed in every way, and reducing all this to a documentary less than an hour is a complex but welcome task.


Pirate torrent to leading streaming. Daniel Eck, founder of Spotify // Photo: Courtesy of HOT8

The docu is properly edited, interesting throughout, and even presents some very interesting facts that even a music patient like me did not know, such as the Swedish entrepreneur of Spotify, one of the world's largest legal streaming companies, previously served as CEO of Torrent, responsible for the pirate download of hundreds of millions of files, Or Napster's iconic programmer, Sean Fanning, didn't program anything until he created the revolutionary software, all of which he learned from reading a book on the subject, but with the exceptionally tight layout of the history of the great music industry revolution from the 1980s to the present, Offers viewers too much added value.

The film does not touch on the changes in consumption of the musical content itself, but only on the economic aspect - fascinating in itself - of the disruptive industry that has crashed, stabilized, and is now booming again. The docu does not say what is good and what is bad, but merely presents data that in ten years from now may no longer be relevant.

If there is anything this docu- ment nevertheless presents in an instructive way, it is that thanks to healthy stubbornness and out-of-the-box thinking, individual people have changed the world. Is it for the better or for the worse? It's hard to say. What is certain is that in your hands is a perfectly valid skylight for endless amounts of songs, and no matter how you consume your music - someone will make tons of money on it.

- MP3 format that changed the music, HOT8, 10pm

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Source: israelhayom

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