MP3 player market to double by 2009

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Link: MP3 player market to double by 2009 (http://www.macbytes.com/link.php?sid=20060223200113)
Description:: Analysts at iSuppli expect the MP3 player market to expand to 230.8 million units by 2009.

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[tk421]

Some musicians argue that Apple's set fee structure puts artists under pressure to write shorter songs. Artists with 23 songs on an album mathematically stand to make more sales than those with fewer but longer tracks, they reason.

Silly. Very few albums are at capacity anyway. I have a lot of CD's that are only 45-50 minutes long. The exceptions are compilations and greatest hits CD's.

And if someone buys a whole album, the price isn't based on the number of songs anyway. That's only for those that pick and choose songs. The exception is if an album has less than 10 tracks, and if that's the case, each song would have to average 8 minutes or more to fill a CD. How often does that happen?

If anything puts pressure on artists to write shorter songs, it's the radio!!

[plinkoman]

eh, just another dumbass analyst who has to get his two cents in... :rolleyes:

[macFanDave]

The analyst points to SanDisk as the most powerful potential Apple competitor, partly because it has its own available technology, and also because it manufactures its own flash memory for devices.

Flash memory is a commodity. (And SanDisk's product line is nothing special.) This analysis is akin to someone saying that a reputable manufacturer of cupholders is a serious contender in the car market.

Some musicians argue that Apple's set fee structure puts artists under pressure to write shorter songs. Artists with 23 songs on an album mathematically stand to make more sales than those with fewer but longer tracks, they reason.

This is one of the dumbest things I've seen in a long time. First of all, artists these days are hard-pressed to put ONE quality track on an album. The length of songs is hardly related to the creative effort put in. Often the songs are expanded by repeating the chorus ad nauseam, indulgent musical interludes and, worst of all, repeating the first verse as the third!

Nobody is going to by filler on a track by track basis and whether these no-talent bums stuff 10 or 22 tracks of uncreative boring chaff, it will not affect the sales of whole albums.