Fw: The CD Format and the Possibly Dark Future of the Music Industry

["Dan Copenhaver" <zbird@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I remember reading about 5 or 6 years ago that the next format that music 
will be released on would be some kind of card type thing. They went on 
saying that CD's were almost extinct as soon as they were invented. They 
used the same concept that lp's used meaning a disc that spins round and 
round and the music being read off the spinning disc. This "new" technology 
that they claimed was in the works was a card similar to the credit card 
shape but a little thicker which there were no moving parts or things 
spinning around and it would just read this card and play whatever was 
programmed into it. Well I never saw this come to be but one could say it 
did too in the form of thumb drives or whatever you call those things that 
plug into a USB port. I just wonder why MP3 won the love and respect of most 
when it is well known how crappy it is! Why not have FLAC players instead of 
MP3 players? Yes I know FLAC's are larger than MP3's are but with hard drive 
storage space getting bigger and bigger and smaller and smaller in size, I 
see no reason why this is a problem any longer. I will be one of the first 
in line to buy one if they would make a FLAC player. I could dump all my 
shows right into it and be set for months at a time in my truck with new 
music at my fingertips. But it probably will never happen.. Its like the VHS 
tape won over BETA. even though BETA was better.
Dan