indiecater New Member Posts:55  
| 10/8/2005 10:18 AM |
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With the proliferation of mp3 downloads it seems that the humble CD could be facing a bleak future. Even though MP3 as a music medium is still in its infancy (you still can't buy the album covers separately, a big unexploited market there), its relative low cost and the ease with which you can think of a song and 3 minutes later be listening to it means it has wide appeal. On the downside it'll be hard proving what a clued in dad you are to your kids when the fruit of many years endeavours are stored on a creaky hard drive.
So what will it be? Endless playlists, folders and corrupted files versus a shelve full of cool shimmering discs?
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Daragh Advanced Member Posts:666
| 10/8/2005 11:25 AM |
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definitely prefer having the CD, (you can just burn it to mp3 afterwards). I like having something to hold on to and look at, and its kinda nice going to the shelf and picking out a cd, instead of scrolling through a computer. I prefer vinyl, but i cant afford any (or CDs!) at the moment, hope to build up a collection though
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Gar Veteran Member Posts:1676
| 10/8/2005 2:19 PM |
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Yeah, I much prefer having cd's. Part of the whole music discovery is making a trip to familar record shops and I don't think I'd ever give that up.
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nlgbbbblthNew Member Posts:13
| 10/11/2005 11:09 PM |
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I always laugh when I read solemn reports about the deaths of music formats.
Won't happen. I remember that the same rumblings were being made about vinyl back in 1984 and yet I still have no problem in buying many new releases on that format.
There are a significant number of people that will prefer a product to a hard drive and that will never change.
If CDs were dying then why are record labels falling over themselves to re-release, re-issue and re-master back catalogue stuff?
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jmc105 Basic Member Posts:188
| 10/11/2005 11:42 PM |
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anyone who buys the guggenheim grotto's album 'waltzing alone' can read a transcript of an on-line discussion about the future of cd's in the age of the mp3. one of the main points that came up was that high-quality art-work and packaging of cd's would encourage people to continue to buy music on cd, but that too many album releases fall short in that department...
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
| 10/12/2005 9:09 AM |
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Ordinary CDs will die out, but it won't be MP3 that kills it, more likely is will simply be replaced by SACD (super audio CD) or those dual format CDs which play at a higher quality if you play it in an appropriate player will play at higher quality, you've probably already bought a couple and not realised it.
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vile niallNew Member Posts:9
| 10/14/2005 9:09 AM |
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I recall being told years ago that there was an inherent problem with the CD format -namely that after X number of years the digital information literally begins to fade away. Now I've never had it happen but I do make a point of copying any CD I buy, using the CD-R and mothballing the original ...just for wear and tear sake.
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
| 10/14/2005 10:18 AM |
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That was an issue with the reflective layer degrading on early CDs, not really a problem these days apparently, you'll probably scratch em before the metal degrades. I tend to make an MP3 copy of every CD onto my PC, gotta get me an external backup hard disk or something.
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