"When I was commuting, I used to bring this huge wallet of CDs with me, so I had 24 CDs, which was a big deal," says music journalist Maura Johnston. There are days where I don't know what to do," says Sasha Frere-Jones, the pop-music critic for The New Yorker. "There's just a staggering amount of music to listen to. (Deep breath.) But here's the thing: It's possible that music lovers today have more access, and listen to more music, than ever before. MP3 blogs, aggregators and BitTorrent programs offered new ways to "own" music without actually paying for it. Online retailers began offering legal downloading alternatives. Apple dominated the market for MP3 players with its iPod, released in late 2001. The recording industry battled back with lawsuits. At the very end of that decade, a college student named Shawn Fanning started a Web-based program called Napster that enabled users to share MP3 files.
In the middle of the 1990s, programmers came up with a method of shrinking the size of digital audio files without losing too much of their audio quality.
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