Historical evidence tells us that music has existed for thousands of years. It wasn't until 1877 that "Thomas Edison made the first recording of a human voice ("Mary had a little lamb") on the first tinfoil cylinder phonograph" (Recording Technology History, 2005). This invention opened a can of worms for music lovers and it has only gotten better for the end listener. Within the past 8 years there has been a huge shift for the "Brick and Mortar" commerce. The purpose of this essay is to describe the supply chain of music media when in a "Brick and Mortar" environment and how web sites have modified the supply chain.
As time progressed after the first recording of a human voice was performed, again Thomas Edison developed the first marketable music media that was known as the "Gold Molded" cylinders. Since this invention, the physical media has evolved drastically, eventually and not until fairly recently, marketable in a non-physical file format. This new non-physical file......
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