Comments on news posted 2008-12-23 18:56:39: Gartner Research is advising the music industry that by Chrismas 2009, they should be embracing a "digital first" approach to music sales, leaving the CD in the digital dustbin. ..
What is his definition of "digital first" media? Is it the horrendous quality 128 kbps mp3's? Are they going to lock us into a different proprietary codec format?
Give me the option for DRM-free FLACS for lossless and Ogg-Vorbis for lossy (superior to MP3 and it's open-source with no licensing fees) and then we can talk.