{"id":2884,"date":"2012-12-08T08:29:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T13:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2012-12-08T08:29:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T13:29:27","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-355-the-90s-windows-media-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/12\/08\/my-musical-evolution-part-355-the-90s-windows-media-player\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 355 The 90’s Windows Media Player"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Windows<\/a>At the end of the 1990’s came another technological change that had a pretty big impact on how I manage my music. It was\u00a0Windows Media Play 6.4.\u00a0 <\/em>If you have been following along, you know that I\u00a0have always treated\u00a0my Compact Discs like Master Recordings. <\/em>I\u00a0didn’t expose them to scratchy CD wallets or leave them languishing\u00a0in the heat of the car. If I wanted to take them on the road, I transferred a copy to cassette and placed the master on the shelf of my reasonably climate controlled basement.<\/p>\n

The exception was bringing them to the office where I would play my favorite Compact Discs on my computer while I worked.\u00a0 In 1999, the new version of Windows Media Player was released and somehow I\u00a0accidentally discovered that I could\u00a0copy my CD’s to my hard drive and play them music without having the CD present. I know it seems ridiculous now after almost 15 years but remember this was years before iTunes and\u00a0the digital media craze swept the nation.<\/p>\n

I brought CD’s in every day and ripped them to my hard drive. soon I had\u00a0most of my music readily available. It really changed how I listened to music. The word Shuffle<\/em> took on a new meaning as I would listen to an artist or genre or custom playlist. All these things we take for granted today were brand new to me in the 1990’s and it was cool.<\/p>\n

Over the next decade, hard drives got bigger, faster and cheaper. Digital music bit rates got higher. I’ve re-ripped\u00a0all my CD’s a few times as compression technology improves.\u00a0 At that\u00a0is how it began. Today I’m sitting inches away from almost 50,000 songs that take up nearly 300GB of hard drive space. Windows Media Player would evolve over the next decade too. Those changes would add to the may I listen to and manage my music. So I’d have to say that this was a pretty significant milestone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the end of the 1990’s came another technological change that had a pretty big impact on how I manage my music. It was\u00a0Windows Media Play 6.4.\u00a0 If you have been following along, you know that I\u00a0have always treated\u00a0my Compact Discs like Master Recordings. I\u00a0didn’t expose them to scratchy CD wallets or leave them languishing\u00a0in … <\/p>\n

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