Digital Audio Is Hot

Technology Review: Ten thousand songs in your pocket. Millions of tunes on the Internet at your fingertips. And books on tape — they’re going down the path of vinyl records.
Welcome to the new world of digital audio.
Though the first portable MP3 player debuted in 1999, most personal music libraries still consist of piles of CDs, and relatively few people listen to digitally recorded radio talk shows and books.
The consumer electronics industry is doing its best to change that, there being serious lucre in prodding people to join the digital audio revolution as long as it’s convenient.
At this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show, it was impossible to walk more than a few feet in the 1.5-million-square feet of exhibition space without stumbling over a digital audio equipment display.
Digital Audio Aims for the Mass Market [Technology Review]