23 Points About Streaming: Part 2
Once upon a time many centuries ago, someone came up with the idea of taking all the world\u2019s available knowledge and storing it one place\u2026that way everyone who had questions had somewhere to go to get the answers\u2026and thus the concept of the library was born\u2026\n\nConsiderably later, this same concept was applied to recorded music and governments, public broadcasters and companies began collecting together as much of humankind\u2019s recorded audio as they could\u2026\n\nThe BBC famously has hundreds of kilometers of shelving for physical media\u2026there\u2019s a guy in Brazil named Zero Freitas who is on a quest to create a private collection of all the records ever made\u2026he has at least 8 million records and more than 100,000 compact discs\u2026\n\nNice\u2026but this still doesn\u2019t cover everything\u2026\n\nIn the 80s, some people started to conceive of a giant computer somewhere that could hold humanity\u2019s music in digital form\u2026if you needed a song\u2014any song\u2014it would be available from that computer instantly\u2026\n\nIn 1994, a law professor named Paul Goldstein popularized the term \u201ccelestial jukebox\u201d\u2026in his mind, this would be networked database available to anyone with a connection or this thing called the \u201cinternet\u201d\u2026\n\nFive years later, napster went online...suddenly, it seemed that you could download any song you wanted\u2014however illegal that might be\u2026\n\nThen, in 2003, came the iTunes music store\u2026starting with several hundred thousand songs, it has since expanded to about 60 million tracks that are all for sale\u2026but that still doesn\u2019t quite cut it because it still involved buying this music\u2026\n\nToday, we have streaming\u2026all the platforms draw from a digital music library that contains at least 75 million songs\u2014and more are being added every day\u2026and we can access this music anytime we want, from wherever we are, using whatever device we happen to have\u2026and the price?...given what we\u2019re able to do, it\u2019s negligible\u2026in fact, it can even be totally free\u2026\n\nThink about that: we can listen to virtually any song ever recorded in seconds and pay nothing\u2026we now have theoretical celestial jukebox, something that was considered science fiction not that long ago\u2026question: how well do you know how all this works?...this is 23 points you might not know about streaming, part 2\u201d\u2026\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices