A friend of mine recently blogged (in Chinese) about his thoughts of digital music and it re-highlighted how we as music lovers are different today. With the complementary forces of the Internet, bad-boy MP3 format and digital devices, we are now exposed and listen to more music than ever before in the history of mankind. More amazing than that, we can access and listen to all these music with the mere touch.

In fact, I believe the digital music collection management is becoming chaotic. How? With music collection now accessible over multiple devices e.g. iPod, home computer, work computer, and mobile, we are forced to constantly transfer music files over multiple devices depending on use. And don’t get me started on the organization of my music collection or ensuring that the IDv3 tags are in proper order.

This is why my interest at the recent Digital Music Forum East spiked my interest, especially with the half hour interview between digital music consultant Jim Griffin of OneHouse, and co-founder of Pho List and founder of MP3Tunes, Michael Robertson. For notes on the half hour interview, Eliot covers it well at the Listening Post from Wired.com. Kim also covers the Debate Over Digital Lockers well at the Washingtonpost.com.

With the flow of new releases of MP3Tunes releasing Pandora-like features, it seems MP3Tunes are looking to solve both the issues of digital music collection management and your music listening experience. I will not dwell with the EMI lawsuits, but MP3Tunes does bring out a valuable proposition – a digital locker of your digital music collection.

Yet, I cannot help but wonder if Music 2.0 is all about creating social music discovery websites, when are we going to refocus our attention on MUSIC?! How we interact with digital music? How we engage with digital music? Or are we happy to settle using technology to modernize (not revolutionize) our music experience?