IT’s Impact on Music Distribution

Tutorial 4 group C
Lam Kum Long (U096769N)
Pang Wen Jie (U096803R)
Le Tan Thanh(U087217R)
Music distribution in the Music Industry
Invention of New Audio Formats
 MP3
• Using MPEG audio, one may achieve a typical data reduction of
 
• 1:4 by Layer 1 (corresponds with 384 kbps for a stereo signal)
• 1:6...1:8  by Layer 2 (corresponds with 256..192 kbps for a stereo
signal)
• 1:10...1:12  by Layer 3 (corresponds with 128..112 kbps for a
stereo signal)

The introduction of digital music distribution since transportation

of music between devices and the Net becomes very easy.
Napster

The artist sets the

price of the CD,
gets 50% of the
retail price on
every sale, and
keeps full control
of the master
recording.
…Napster continued
• firms music
changing their
revenue models
to virtual
means(‘click-and-
mortar’ and ‘click
only’ )