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The Rise Of Mp3s And Digital Downloadingcomm 100section 001music The The Rise of MP3s and Digital Downloading COMM 100 Section 001 Music, the most wonderful matter, creates by human beings. However, it spent an extremely long time to become the music-form we listen today. The recording technology also experienced a huge development. In the early 20th century, the Tin Pan Alley era, is first time that people sold their music. In the Tin Pan Alley era, music was sold as the sheet music, which means people use paper to record their music. During the post-war Era, the recording technology developed, and it could record music with the tape. After several hundreds of years and through the development of the technology, people can get music they liked from the Internet or buy the CDs from the retail stores. With rapidly spread speed for MP3, Digital downloading becomes a significant role for music, because people can get music from it easily and quickly. However, every coin has two sides, which means digital downloading brings the convenient to people, but it also hurts the benefits for the musical artists. As well, it also becomes the mainstream that is replacing the original hard copy of the music, CD, day after day. In the modern society, people loved music very much, because it is the easy way to delivered and expressed the emotions for people. Music swings everywhere in the modern society. For example, people listen to the music during their driving, exercising and walking time; people usually like to listen music during eating in the restaurant. Therefore, music becomes an essential part in people’s lives, and people likely to spent more and more money on pursing Mp3 and other kind of music players. As a result, it also causes the rise of the purchasing of the music. Through the development of the technology, digital downloading is negatively affecting the original CD retail stores. ITunes is also one of the largest music online-retailers in the United State. Many people liked to purchase the music from the ITunes, but still some people prefer to buy a hard copy. The difference between the digital music and the CD are people can use the machine to make their own CD that includes all the music they like if they purchased online. However, when people buy the CD, the music had already selected by the company; which mean when people listen to the CD, they have to listen to the whole list of the music that also includes the music they do not like. In my perception, I prefer to buy the music online, because it is convenient, as well it is also the mainstream in the modern world. I also believe the digital downloading will totally replace the original CD in the future. Anyways, people tend to download music rather than buying music CDs, and this