Mp3 Quotations

We don't get the Tony gift basket anymore. You used to get incredible swag - there was like $5,000 worth of stuff. I remember getting an MP3 player, gift certificates to restaurants, a three-year gym membership.

I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.

The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

We are projecting an increase in sales of MP3 players to $4.5 billion in 2006, with 30 percent of all MP3 players sold having video playback capability.

What's kind of been lost is that those professional users like to listen to tunes, too, ... Now, they can use their digital recorder to listen to MP3 tunes on the road and they don't have to carry two devices.

We've got everything on my phone. I use it mostly for the phone, but I also play video games and use the MP3 player. I pretty much use it all the time.

We've seen millions of MP3 players sold and millions of satellite radio products sold. Now we're marrying them together and will hopefully create a new market.

I love every type of listening format, from MP3s to CDs to vinyl. There's something special about each one. It's a sign of the times. I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!

I strapped an MP3 player to one of those floor-cleaning robots. Call him DJ Roomba - little guy cruises around and plays music. What's hot, DJ Roomba!

When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.

Set-top boxes may not have the coolness factor of MP3 players or digital televisions. But growth is steady, and key developments like MPEG-4 and IPTV make this a particularly important period in the market.

One of the key challenges we face in our MP3 business is an industry-wide shortage of 1GB flash memory. Industry demand for high-capacity flash memory currently outstrips supply and this will impact availability of our 1G-byte flash MP3 players for the holiday quarter. The shortage of flash memory, according to industry analyst speculation, is primarily a result of a special deal that Apple has secured from a key supplier for the holiday season.

I am confident that convergent products will change business models. Why would I not want to have all of my devices with me, especially MP3 players where you can download songs off the air?

I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.

There is always uncertainty around Apple's announcements. If it is big news we want to be prepared. And if it's not we still want to be there because they are such a major player in the MP3 and music-playing markets.

I agree that MP3 is going to be the top attraction this year and to a lesser extent the ability to send videos.

Having a file compression format and MP3 players aren't enough. The catalyst for online music distribution will be products that offer security for digital content and standards around which consumer electronics companies and others can build products.

Our Cable-Free USB approach allows consumers to extend the functionality of their existing USB 2.0 cameras, flash drives, MP3 players, laptops and many other consumer electronic devices by creating a wireless connection for the existing USB 2.0 specification.

The appeal is the portability, the time shifting aspect and the added capability to listen to both the Sirius content and their MP3 collections,

When you're from a boring town, you have to find things to do. It's funny: I always knew I wanted to make music, so I was always kind of ahead of my peers. I had an MP3 player by the time I was in the fourth grade.

We had under invested in the marketing efforts of X-Fi as we focused on becoming No. 2 in the MP3 segment.

The problem we had with the RIO was that it could exacerbate the MP3 piracy problem by encouraging more people to post illegal MP3 files and more people to download them.

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

We think that, for some people, the phone will eventually replace the MP3 player .

The portable MP3 player category has seen the most growth in popularity and Apple has been a very important driver of that.

We see people on the roadways talking on the phone, checking their stocks, checking scores, fussing with their MP3 players, reading e-mails, all while driving 40, 50, 60, 70 mph and sometimes even faster.

Though MP3 players presently only use adapters to implement Bluetooth technology, we are seeing an increasing amount of mobile phones with MP3 functionality on the market. This will further push the need for built-in Bluetooth functionality in cars." ()

Tweeter has been losing market share to the big guys. It served a higher-end customer, and historically it differentiated itself with home audio, but that business has fallen off a cliff. No one buys stereos anymore. They buy MP3 players, and you don't need the same kind of service to sell these lower priced, lower margin products.

We expect this significant acceleration in production output will further reduce our costs and provide substantial new captive capacity to meet the anticipated growth in demand from new markets such as mobile phones and MP3 players, and enable us to better address geographies where we believe we have attractive opportunities to expand our market presence.

We feel pretty good about our business plan. We haven't booked any revenues per se on the mp3 nor have we projected any, but I think there are a lot of possibilities. You know, the movie industry after the big hit comes out, they go to video.

We had set our targets higher for unit volume and average selling prices for our MP3 players than we achieved in the period.

Even though we increased overall revenues 50 percent year-over-year, the lower-than-expected selling prices for MP3 players and the inventory write-down negatively impacted gross margins.

The XM Passport is a whole new audio format, in the same way that CDs and MP3s are audio formats. You can take a CD from the stereo to the car, or take an MP3 file from the computer to the portable player. With the XM Passport, you can take XM from one product to the next to listen. It goes wherever you go.

Technology products are driving our sales. The really hot products at the moment are the digital cameras and MP3 players. We stock every new technology product that comes out and they are really belting out the door.

Personal computers and cellular telephones remain the largest drivers for semiconductor business. The popularity of MP3 players, however, accounted for dramatic growth among flash memory vendors in 2005.

The MP3 opportunity has been good but there's a lot further to go. The market hasn't fully recognized how advanced the delivery of music could wind up being,

The MP3 market is going to collapse, with everything going to be in cell phones, ... It doesn't bode well for anybody else except, maybe, the five-dollar MP3 players from China.

Somebody will download an MP3 file, and we'll have this huge spike in (network usage) and everything will just come to a screeching halt. It's kind of tough, because most people don't really understand the effect

Demand for portable MP3 players is booming, as more and more consumers get acquainted with their stylish form factors and digital audio functionality.

Audio CD burning capability allows users to play burned music on players that don't have MP3 support, like a CD player. A beta tester burned a high school assignment to Audio CD using the new feature. She reported that the CD-R played flawlessly on the CD player available in the school, a CD player that was too old to recognize and play an MP3 CD.

You've just got all your songs in one place. I'll pick an MP3 player over a CD player any day of the week.

This isn't just idle paranoia. The technology companies are sensitive because they remember all too well that when the VCR was introduced, the movie studios sued them. When the digital audio player was introduced, the record companies sued them. And when the MP3 player was introduced, the record companies sued them for that too.

It wasn't just big items that made a mark in 2005. Consumers went after MP3 players and digital cameras, creating a robust year for the two categories.

It's true, if you go to someone's MP3 player or iPod you're not going to find just one genre,

It's the consumer saying, 'I want it all.' That's why folks like Apple can kill Dell's entry into the MP3 space. They're also listening to the voice of the consumer. It's exciting for us because in the past, you had leaders like Dell leading because of operational efficiency. That concept is now a requirement for a ticket to the game. But to lead the game, you've got to really have the depth and capabilities to invest in technology.

Consumers are more likely to buy a second television or DVD player for the bedroom or perhaps a second MP3 player for the gym bag.

It's similar to zipping a file. What we do is compress the regular MP3 format further, and because it's voice, we can save and produce it at a lower bit rate than CD quality.

Eight years ago we weren't seen as a core supplier to retailers of MP3 players, TVs and cell phones. Now we are, and we need to broaden that.

Eight million units shipped in 2004 and shipments surpassed 25 million in 2005. We anticipate an additional 30 million will ship this year, which puts MP3 right up there with televisions.

Not surprisingly, most of the young, primarily male, respondents to our survey said that they want a small, fun-to-drive sports car that can incorporate the technology products that they use on a daily basis, such as cell phones, mp3 players and game consoles.

Strong holiday season sales of consumer products such as cell phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players drove record sales of semiconductors in November.

They are going to just keep pumping out MP3 content ... and then put out products that match consumer demand. We're looking at this major ... brush fire.

The lack of MP3 support is the primary reason Sony has stumbled, ... It stymied them in the market.

In December we saw strength in a broad number of categories, but we saw significant strength in flat panel televisions, MP3 players and accessories, notebook computers, video game hardware, navigation products and imaging products." ()

In this country the carriers have the upper hand, not the handset manufacturers, because our phones are heavily subsidized. In five years we believe there will be more music phones than MP3 players.

I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple.

I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

For the first time ever, you can listen to XM live and play your MP3s on a single, handheld device. This is a major milestone for both satellite radio and MP3, and it promises to fundamentally change the way people enjoy their music. For music fans, these products from Pioneer and Samsung offer the very best of both worlds: XM and MP3 on the go.

The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.

We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice.

It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks—at least so far—are fairly limited in their awesomeness.

Because music wasn't free yet, they wouldn't really offer MP3s so you had to buy things to see if you liked it or not. Which is crazy if you think about how much music you bought and then didn't even like the stuff. It was a different world where bands made money off their music.

People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous.

Frankly, I didn't know how I would react to Apple's over-hyped MP3 player until I used one. Now I would have a hard time parting with it: Consider me converted.

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.