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by Chris Bodenner

A reader writes:

After reading your musician reader's note about the iPod's utility as a creative tool, I felt compelled to chime in. I'm a musician too, and like pretty much every other musician I know, I'm a devotee of Apple's products. It's very true that Macs and iPods are flat-out indispensable for producing and recording modern music. And I think the taste and elegance of their industrial and software design, their stores, and even their advertising is a net plus for our culture.

But.  There is a negative, or at least an artistically-questionable sea change in music, which has been abetted by the success of the iPod: the death of the album.