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digital music  

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  • Digital music is music that has been converted from sound into binary digital code. It represents the single biggest innovation in the music industry since Thomas Edison first scratched his own voice reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb” into a piece of tinfoil in 1876. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; Digital Music]

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