A bittersweet look at ten years of MP3s

By Donald Bell on 04 April 2008

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Comments: I felt the same way when CD's first arrived. I loved tapes (and records). I loved listening to an album from start to finish. I hated the idea that I could "skip" from one song to the next or "shuffle" the playlist. I wanted to listen to the album the way it was recorded (or the way the artist intended). A lot of albums--for instance, RHCP-BloodSugarSexMagik--were mastered without gaps between the songs. That was awesome! It was like one continuous track. I used to listen to that all the time on cassette. Then I got it on CD and it wasn't the same. Anyway, for me, the whole digital thing started with CD's, so be it CD or mp3, it still sucks not having an analog medium.

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