The other day I was walking along the street and I passed a shop that was playing one of my favorite songs. I wanted to stop and linger, just to enjoy the rest of the song, but I was on my way to meet some people, and I didn’t want to keep them waiting.<\/p>\n
Yet I thought to myself “Why can’t I take the song with me?” I know there is software that can recognize a song from just a few bars, so there is no technical barrier that would prevent, say, a smart phone from “picking up” any music in the vicinity.<\/p>\n
Wouldn’t it be nice if you were walking down the street, and whenever you heard a song you like, you could just pick it up and take it with you, so that it continues to play on your own portable music player?<\/p>\n
Of course this defeats the goal of the store owners, who are playing that yummy music precisely to entice you to go into their store and linger a while. But somehow I think they would survive. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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