This document discusses the history and future of music technology and consumption over the past 100+ years. It describes how music has transformed from physical formats like records and CDs to digital and mobile formats like MP3s and streaming. It predicts that music streaming services will dominate the future as they allow access to all music anywhere and drive new social experiences. Interactive multimedia and user generation of content will further transform how people engage with music.

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Music
the past, now and the future
Mobile Future
10.November 2011
Per Einar Dybvik
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This is a story about
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• how the music technology has been transformed for the past 100
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• how a mobile content company, Aspiro, selling ringtones has
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• how we believe the the technology will continue to transform and
dramatically change the way we consume and explore music
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3. 1877 Phonograph: The start of recorded music
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Thomas Edison
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4. 1907
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Things are evolving
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5. 1909 Tel-Musici launched in Wilmington, Delaware, US
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Pricing:
3 Cents for each ordinary piece
7 Cents for grand opera
The subscriber must guarantee $18 per year.
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6. 1930
Action titleMusic becomes «portable» – 78 rpm
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7. 1963 Philips launches the first cassette
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8. 1978 The start of digital music
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Philips launches Compact Disc
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9. 1979
1979 Sony introduces the Walkman
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- a first true mobile music experience
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10. 1984 Then Sony gives us the Discman
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- the first portable digital player
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11. 1998 ..then Rio gives us the MP3-player
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12. 1998 Moving into the mobile phone business
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PS! Aspiro is born
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13. 1999 The mobile content business i being shaped
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What they promised us ……
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14. 2000 Mobile Music 1.0 - monophonic ringtones
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Jippi launched
They sold over 100.000 ringtones the first
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• Asprio (Schibsted Telecom) created their first
ringtones inhouse – created by teenagers on
simple keyboard
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15. 2000
2000 Mobile Music 1.0
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16. 2003 Mobile Music 2.0 = Polyphonic ringetones
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• Nokia launches ”smarter” og cool phones
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17. 2005
2005 Mobile Music 3.0 = MP3 ringetones
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• Ringtones becomes clips from
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• The record labels enters the
business and Aspiro sign their first
agreements for delivery of music
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18. 2006
2007 Mobile Full Track Music
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music download store with Telenor
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19. 2007
2008 Dual-download & MP3
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mobile with Windows DRM !
• Later record labels accepts
DRM-free MP3s to be sold
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20. 2010
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WiMP is launched
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21. So what
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Music
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becomes physical and opens for mass-distribution (the vinyl)
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• becomes level
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• becomes disc-free (MP3-player)
• gets online distribution (iTunes launched in 2001)
– and we get illegal piracy (Napster, PirateBay, ++)
• And finally we get the music streaming services
– the Cloud-based Music
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22. Music streaming is the future
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It creates an optimal user experience – a fun one!
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• Access to a library of ALL music in the world – ever recorded
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• Fixed-fee rental model - no need to own music music
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• Users explores new music in a totally different way – no need to
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decide to buy a track or album
• Accessible from everywhere on all connected devices – PC, mobile,
TV, home stereos,++
• Offline-mode – play music when not online
• Sharing of music online gets a new dimension
More people will play more music than ever before
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23. .. but are we creating a sustainable business model
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• The digital music market has surpassed the physical market in
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Norway and Sweden driven
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•• Artist and other rightholders are starting see large income from
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• Back-catalogue gets revitalized and artist can calculate to make
money for years to come – not only from their new releases
• Streaming fights piracy
Scandinavia is driving this revolution
- shows how to build services, adopt and monetize
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25. We have just seen the beginning of a
revolution in connected music devices
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• –Everyone will carry a portable music player
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The smartphone market is growing fast and will be the
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preferered music player
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• A new generation of home-stereos will rock the home
All home Hi-Fi systems will be connected and provide Internet radio
and streaming music services
• All car-stereos will be connected
Streaming services will be integrated into car
stereos with online and offline mode
Music will be accessed everywhere
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26. Mobile devices is key to success
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WiMP-supported mobiles/tables WiMP-supported Desktops
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• iPhone
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Symbian • Linux
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Meego
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Windows
WiMP-supported stereos
• Squeezebox
• Sonos *
WiMP-numbers Oct. 2011 among users having access to all devices – i.e. Premium version
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27. So far iOS is the dominant platform,
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but other platforms are getting popular
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interactive multimedia experience:
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• Background info: bios, lyrics, etc
• Sing-along, Karaoke features, games and quiz
• Interaction between artist and their fans
Artists will become multimedia artists
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29. Music will become incredible social
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• Clicksimple sharing of playlists as seen today, we will see more of:
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concerts
• Social Karaoke, Sing-along features, gaming and quiz
• Interaction between artist and their fans
• User generated remix, DJ functions
New ways to share real-time moments
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30. more than a music player – it´s a media channel
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At WiMP we strive to create a totally new music experience
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• get recommendations, tips and related music
• get all the background information about the artist
• get an interactive and social music experience
Simply a place where you will stay to
explore, experience and have fun with music
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Thank you
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Contacts
Per Einar Dybvik
pere@wimp.no
Check out wimpmusic.se
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