I love my music, as I'm sure you love yours. The question is, though, do you love everyone's music? Even some of your closest friends have vastly different music tastes. These differing music tastes can turn a roadtrip sour with arguing over whose music gets listened to, and often the bickering results in people listening to nothing at all. Enter the personal music player.
In today's world, many people have MP3 players of some sort, whether they're iPods, Zunes, Zens, ibiza Rhapsodies, or a number of other types of technology. They download their favorite songs to their MP3 player, and can listen to their tunes incessently.
The problem of community listening still remains, though. If everyone listens to their own music, the social atmosphere is gone, and they might as well each be alone. Adding other people's music to one's MP3 player doesn't solve the problem, since music selections are usually randomized using the shuffle process, and unliked music would come up even when the person you added it for wasn't present.
My solution to this problem is simple- I propose an MP3 Tree. There would be a basic cube, with one side of the cube plugging into something akin to an MP3 converter, and the other five sides would be free to accept plugs connected to each respective MP3 player. The music would be pulled randomly from each MP3 player, and would ultimately result in five people each recieving enjoyable music.
I think this would work well as a compromise between parents and children, or as a great icebreaker amoung friends. Just think of the conversation which could be started over who put "Unmei no Deai" on their iPod.
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You have to account for the fact that, according to the rightsholders, they consider that piracy (although the Zune can share, in a limited fashion, wirelessly). And that a good deal of the legitimate music purchases use DRM which locks tracks to a user account/player (although DRM free tracks are becoming more legitimately available).
What could pass muster with the studios, is only the index of the contained tracks be transferred, rather than the tracks themselves, and should the recipient desire, they can use the index as recommendationa on tracks to possibly purchase themselves.