Blog: NPR Music: Monitor Mix

By Omar L. Gallaga, NPR's All Tech Considered Blog Remember how amazing it was, way back in 1999, to type the name of a song or artist into Napster.com and have instant access to a song? Remember how un-amazing it was to wait for it to download over a poky dial-up connection? It makes sense that music was the first chunk of traditional media to really tumble down in the face of online digital distribution. Songs, already broken down into 1s and 0s for CDs, were easy to digitize [...]