{"id":1125,"date":"2011-11-16T20:40:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/11\/16\/sting-cd-format-is-dying-app-is-new-model\/"},"modified":"2011-11-16T20:40:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T20:40:55","slug":"sting-cd-format-is-dying-app-is-new-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/11\/16\/sting-cd-format-is-dying-app-is-new-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Sting: CD format is dying, app is &#8216;new model&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/78\/Sting_2009_portrait.jpg\/220px-Sting_2009_portrait.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"117\" height=\"152\" \/><br \/>Sting has talked up the \u201corganic\u201d possibilities of iOS apps in favour of the traditional CD format which, he says, isn\u2019t long for this world.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The former Police front man seems particularly pleased with his own Sting 25 app, which can be updated time and time again following its released this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are going to stop buying CDs,&#8221; Sting told Billboard. &#8220;People are going to stop selling and making them, so I am looking for different ways to get music to people, and the [app] at the moment seems to be the favourite \u2026 The app is the new model.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His Sting 25 app is released this week and accompanies a traditional CD box set. The app itself a selection of photos, lyrics, interviews and concert footage related to the musician&#8217;s solo career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very full and can also be constantly updated, so it&#8217;s not a static thing,&#8221; Sting said. &#8220;It&#8217;s organic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week \/ Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sting has talked up the \u201corganic\u201d possibilities of iOS apps in favour of the traditional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}