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Originally posted by MaggieL
The real reason MP3s are popular (out of proportion to the price point) is that you don't have to bother with the pointless "filler tracks" that get stuck on many albums to pad them out to an acceptable length.
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I don't agree. I think the "real reason" they're popular is the incredible compression mp3s have. For example, the cds I make for my Sony Walkman hold 20 hours of music! Hell, the batteries would run out before the cd would run out of new songs to play. This is the kind of technology i'm talking about. Done right, it's a straight up technological advancement that's trivially easy to implement. It may take some time because of politics, but it's just a matter of time, I think.