September 25, 2007

The fustier, less tech-savvy noses in classical music  

From an interesting article about classical music and iTunes:

Though classical music makes a respectable showing in iTunes, executives for compact disc purveyors from ArkivMusic to Brilliant Classics say their consumers are suspicious of downloads, fearing their music will be somehow swallowed up by their computer. Or, given the often-superior sound quality of compact discs, they don't see the point.
In a lot of ways iTunes and the iPod are badly designed for the classical listener, because of the way music is grouped into songs that can't be bound together. The random settings become almost useless, and you have to be a lot more deliberate about constructing playlists. And of course it's not really surprising that the classical audience has especial difficulty with this. Still, they do represent large (and disproportionate) portion of the iTunes market.

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