Poll: Is the digital music 'revolution' over?

2 points by jrwoodruff 17y ago ↗ HN

Reading reviews about how companies at TechCrunch50 supposedly weren't 'world-changing' left me wondering about the music world.

Is this it? I've been waiting for the labels to collapse; the haven't. I love Pandora, but it still caters to the labels. Is that the end to the digital music revolution: Labels continue to collect royalties, we get iTunes and Pandora?

Has the paradigm-shift I've been waiting for happened, and I just didn't see it?

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JCThoughtscream 17y ago ↗

A better question, perhaps:

Has a digital music revolution /actually happened yet?/

jrwoodruff 17y ago ↗

Or will it for that matter? It's been incremental so far. mp3s begot mp3 players, eventually the iPod, iTunes. Faster connections allowed Pandora to happen.

Is that the seeds of a revolution, or is it the revolution in progress? Is revolution really just a steady march of incremental improvement?