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Re:Freedom to Tinker: Infinite Storage for Music by cstejerean on Monday October 15, 2007 @05:06PM (#68221)
this is a good point. i have a hard time dealing with one of songs I download or purchase. Since they are not in an album (and are often by an artist that I barely have a couple of songs from) I tend to forget about them after a while and never listen to it for a long time, until I accidentally stumble upon it. I can imagine finding songs you like out of all the songs ever recorded would be pretty tough.
Re:Freedom to Tinker: Infinite Storage for Music by joeguilmette on Monday October 15, 2007 @05:43PM (#68237)
tagging and user ratings will play an important role as users are given more choices.

rather than how itunes sorts your music, the model used by netflix is a bit more useful. realistically, in a few years everyone will have easy access to library's the size of netflix, available for instantaneous streaming. there is no reason to assume that music will not adopt a similar model.