Digital music: the market for nothing.

Since the explosion of so-called "digital music", the recording market has suffered a severe blow.

From the millions of copies of physical media sold, sales quickly went to almost zero.

This digital revolution initially puts the recording market in crisis. With the demolition, or presumed deletion, of "pirate" sites, things seem to improve significantly.

Physical support is in crisis, but still present.

My reflection, however, concerns the value of digital music.

The technology allows practically anyone to record music, reducing costs if not almost eliminating them. The initiatives of the various record companies to move to digital distribution are of little use.

This distribution earns artists a few cents at best and many after a while give up completely on distributing music via digital platforms.

So, apart from the record companies who still manage to scrape together something from downloads and listens, the artists are enormously penalized.

It would therefore seem that the problem lies only with those who create the music, but this is not the case.

The listener is bombarded with free, ready-to-use mp3s.

However, he doesn't know that the mp3 is a compressed file, a piece of music that has modifications on the frequencies, modified to make the file lightweight and downloadable.

Unlistenable I would say, even with the best audio system dedicated to MP3s.

The wave format, typical of CDs, reports all the frequencies audible to the human ear.

Luckily it seems that someone has noticed and the market for CDs and even vinyl, as well as cassettes, seems to have come back to life.

Listening to music is not a simple pastime and deserves adequate quality.

An album recorded in a recording studio, with high-level collaborations and musicians, can only be listened to with a format that reflects all its sonic characteristics.

Digital can be an excellent means of communication, but let's try listening, in the same listening system, to a song in mp3 and then the same one in wave format on CD, we will notice a huge difference.

A return to the past that defines quality in favor of the quantity of music we can listen to.