damacman
Resident Psycho
Care to cite a few examples? I may have a few!CDs are already highly collectible with many of the early and rare releases commanding many hundreds of dollars each.
Care to cite a few examples? I may have a few!CDs are already highly collectible with many of the early and rare releases commanding many hundreds of dollars each.
How about Paris Hilton's debut album? (Knew I should have bought it when I had the chance.)Care to cite a few examples? I may have a few!
I agree with this view in concept, although I do appreciate that CDs retain at least some degree of artwork (usually). Audio files to me are like having a vinyl record in a generic (or no) cover.
Don't know about you, but I view album covers for all my server based music.
In a perfect world, yes - where actual liner notes are actually found with the CD.Not enough - however I think a pdf of the full liner notes is a good compromise
Care to cite a few examples? I may have a few!
I'm thinking that if you want to buy a CD, the day will come when you can't buy them at the stores anymore and they are custom burnt like Amazon does with a lot of its on demand R DVD movie media.
What do you think?
The Cd is no different than the cassette. Time has passed it by.
Isn't that what they said about vinyl?
Time may be passing by the CD, but it has an advantage over cassette in that people are still buying computers and BluRay players that can rip and play CDs. The 5 inch (12cm) disc is still a standard for media players, which remain backwards compatible with old redbook CDs, and I don't see that changing soon. The average consumer buying a $1 used CD at a thrift will continue to have the hardware to listen to it, unlike an LP or cassette tape.
Isn't that what they said about vinyl?
Yeah , I'll take that right to the bank . You take romance for your music delivery . I'll take sound quality and no distortion and no clicks .
1.Best Buy never had a broad selection...And, today, Best Buy is emptying their store of CDs. No more sales there. I started out with vinyl, but really love digital. FLAC and Wave.
That's unfortunate. And I'm not singling out Roon here.No, that is one drawback, esp if you are looking for the songs specific info. They are talking about ways to try to do more of this but I believe it is dependent on having an accurate database to draw from.
I do a lot of FLAC listening with an ios app called FileBrowser. Because it looks for files/folders the artwork folders show up, and I can view them on a smart device while listening.Not enough - however I think a pdf of the full liner notes is a good compromise - why the f*ck the companies won't included them with downloads it beyond me - although to be fair I also wonder why the f*ck the music playing software (JRiver, etc) out there don't have a mechanism to detect if there are pdfs in the album directory and display them attractively... I would prefer that to Roon's approach of getting stuff from the internet about the artist and/or album...
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I'm fine