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The advent of the Internet has greatly transformed the experience of music, most notably through the greatly increased ease with which people can access music content and the greatly increased choice of accessible music.Another effect the Internet has had on music comes from online communities like Youtube and Myspace. Myspace has made social networking with other musicians much easier and greatly facilitates distribution of one's music. Youtube is another forum that has a large community of both amateur and professional musicians participating in posting videos and commenting. Professional musicians are also using Youtube as free promotional publishing. Viewed differently, Youtube users are no longer content to just consume content, like downloading and listening to mp3s, but are now actively creating their own content. According to Tapscott and Williams, there has been a shift from a traditional consumer role to a “prosumer” role, a consumer who creates value and well as consumes it. Manifestations of this in music are the production of mashes, remixes, and music videos by fans.

Recently, there has been a boom in "boutique" music stores that cater to specific audiences. For example, Beatport and Bleep.com cater to the electronic music community. Magnatune, Amie Street, and Mindawn are other examples of sites that cater to specific audiences. Another trend in music download sites includes Fonogenic which combines the ideas of the selective editorial nature of an MP3 blog with online music stores which provide instant access to buy and download songs.A more recent development allows the instant downloadng of radio-songs, as they are broadcasted, straight to a mobile phone in less than 60 seconds. This technical innovation from Sweden, called DROPme, represents a different channel and consumer behaviour relative to the online services.As of May 2006, the largest online music service is iTunes Store with 61% of the market followed by eMusic with 12%. source : wikipedia


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