{"id":561,"date":"2013-01-25T08:26:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T14:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travway.net\/?p=561"},"modified":"2013-01-25T08:26:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T14:26:37","slug":"english-comp-ii-essay-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/2013\/01\/25\/english-comp-ii-essay-1\/","title":{"rendered":"English Comp II Essay 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editors Note: I wrote this exactly thirteen years ago! \u00a0This was a time when the MP3\/Napster debate was the main focus of my life, and this kicked off many other projects, essays, surveys and so on. \u00a0You can probably tell there is a bit of a bias here, but whatever. \u00a0Some\u00a0grammatical\u00a0and spelling errors corrected.<\/em><\/p>\n

Some people are looking into using MP3\u2019s as an alternative to audio books as the article \u201cE-audio is on the Horizon\u201d in the Library Journal<\/span>.\u00a0 On the other hand, most people use MP3\u2019s as a form of free music according to the article \u201cBye-bye record store, hello Web music?\u201d in a recent PC World<\/span>.\u00a0 MP3\u2019s are one of the most debated topics in the information technology world and both of these articles look at what the benefits of MP3\u2019s are but it is very clear that there are two different views in each article.\u00a0 The magazine looks at what is more popular right now and a more computer based audience, while the journal is looking at using what is popular to benefit the public and looks at a more educated audience.<\/p>\n

The Library Journal <\/span>article focuses on libraries across the United States that might look at replacing their audio books from cassette to a digital from.\u00a0 The article points out that the favored format of digital audio books would be MP3 because of their size and their popularity with music.\u00a0 The article also points out that most libraries are going to stay with the cassettes partially because the proper funding is not available to provide players for the digital audio format, added not many libraries have the proper support to get digital audio at this point in time.\u00a0\u00a0 The article covers some of the popular MP3 players available and goes on to mention that if patrons brought their own players it would be worth looking into.\u00a0 Unfortunately publishing companies will suffer some of the fate that the record companies are going through with music MP3\u2019s on the Web.<\/p>\n

The PC World<\/span> article covers what many people use MP3\u2019s for free or inexpensive music available on the World Wide Web.\u00a0 The article compares different ways to accesses songs on the Web and in turn gives the authors pick of the litter.\u00a0 The author then covers some of the Napster issue, which has become the most popular way to acquire MP3\u2019s over the web, although it is the major target of the record industry for allowing free music to millions of user across the world.\u00a0 The author uses his own experience to tell the audience just how easy it is to get MP3\u2019s off the Web, and even how easier it is to access his own MP3\u2019s any where in the world with a Internet connection.<\/p>\n

Looking at the differences and similarities in these two articles shows that both cover the idea of digital audio known as MP3\u2019s and how they can be beneficial to people anywhere.\u00a0 The major difference in these articles is the audience.\u00a0 The journal looks at benefiting the people who listen to audio books that are on cassettes or compact disc by switching over to MP3\u2019s.\u00a0 Whereas the magazine focuses on benefiting the people who use cassettes or compact disc for music by getting the same music off of the Internet.<\/p>\n

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Works Cited<\/p>\n

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McCracken, Harry.\u00a0 \u201cBye-bye Record Store, Hello Web Music?\u201d PC World<\/span> Jun 2000: 43-44.<\/p>\n

Proquest.\u00a0 B.J. Harrison Lib., Marshalltown (IA) Community Coll. 22 Jan. 2000<\/p>\n

<http:\/\/proquest.umi.com<\/a>>.<\/p>\n

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Oder, Norman.\u00a0 \u201cE-audio is on the horizon.\u201d Library Journal<\/span> Nov 15, 2000: 42.<\/p>\n

Proquest.\u00a0 B.J. Harrison Lib., Marshalltown (IA) Community Coll. 22 Jan. 2000<\/p>\n

<http:\/\/proquest.umi.com<\/a>>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editors Note: I wrote this exactly thirteen years ago! \u00a0This was a time when the MP3\/Napster debate was the main focus of my life, and this kicked off many other projects, essays, surveys and so on. \u00a0You can probably tell there is a bit of a bias here, but whatever. \u00a0Some\u00a0grammatical\u00a0and spelling errors corrected. Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}