grillebilly
Empty Head
I don't know about everyone else but I need the physical media. Records or CD are both good. Maybe it's a PITA keeping them in order, but the music is like the gear, fun to own and look at.
CDs are the new vinyl!
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Don't have to remember beyond yesterday around here. Records can still be bought most anywhere around here for a buck. Even at that price I don't bother picking.
So I really am smart for sucking them all up at the thrift store and ripping them?
Unfortunately they really need to be individually assessed for condition before purchase, I'd say a good 50% or more of them aren't going to be able to get a clean accurate rip without some serious elbow grease.
squirrelnest
Lunatic Member
You can get some good deals on CD's at the thrift shops.....I have a nice collection of them....
This is an amazing time to be a music fan. I have COUNTLESS system iterations I can sling together, all of which trump what I had only a decade ago. I have tripled my collection of vinyl in only
a decade, and doubled my cd collection, at an extremely low cost.
I have so much music, and not enough time left to enjoy it all. I'm 43, for the record.
a decade, and doubled my cd collection, at an extremely low cost.
I have so much music, and not enough time left to enjoy it all. I'm 43, for the record.
1970's Fan
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KrisM
Lunatic Member
Don't forget the vitamin G!
I'm almost there, and I feel the same way. And then I'll go to a thrift and see a huge stack of classical vinyl, or a friend will get a 10 CD box of Benny Goodman outtakes and offer them up, and I'm like "Hey, sure, I'll find the time to listen to these".
heck yeah! then I really CAN have my entire music collection in my pocket. Well more than 1300 CDs if you rip to FLAC not .wav
bhebbel
Well-Known Member
Most likely an accurate prediction and I totally agree with that. However, you forget that that is only the medium. You still have to buy the music to put on it.
If CD-quality/hi-res downloads come down in price, then cool, fill them up. If they don't come down, we're still going to have to get the physical media first to get the music cheap for those of us that don't want to spend more than around $10 an album. And just remember, you can't buy "used" downloads (well, really you can but it's not really legal at the moment and not feasible legally without DRM, which is a sucky system on anything).
And for cloud-based stuff, there's all sorts of issues with that. Low bitrates (in a lot of cases right now), slow speeds, network dropouts, excessive data charges, phone battery life, rights battles with the record and streaming companies (i.e. they probably never will have everything), doesn't work when the power/network is out, etc. Then there's the EMP (it could happen). Could it work perfectly? Yes, but only in a perfect world. We won't be there for a long time. My biggest issue is when you're driving through an area with spotty cell reception or when you're out of the country and your cell phone doesn't work. Even the perfect infrastructure elsewhere will not help you stream your music in those cases at the moment. Sure, you can use Wi-Fi, but you also have to be relatively still for that to work. Also, there's the possibility that the NSA is watching you or something. What if one of them decides I listen to too much metal? (I joke but it's not impossible for that to happen.)
The volume and velocity of technological changes continues to increase. NO ONE can accurately predict what our little world will look like technologically in 10 years. Five years is getting hard.
I do know that we will have more bandwidth, more reliability, higher quality and lower cost content in five years. I enjoy having the media in my hands as much as anyone. In particular, album art is becoming a thing of he past. Unfortunately, the entire recording business has been getting the life sucked out of it (primarily by Apple). Most music genres with the exception of country are dying (when it come to new talent). I don't know what will happen to fix the problem of enabling talented artists a chance to get popular and rich chasing the dream.
We have sooooo many things competing for our free time today. Couple that with he reality that the majority of the people are drawn towards visual stimuli and are socially motivated (like spending time on forum sites). Boredom should be something between a novelty and an oddity.
BTW-If an EMP does occur we better all learn to sing. In my case this would make for an ugly, painful future. I sing like I snore.
Nightwisher
Farer In The Goldilocks Zone
I agree that it is much harder to earn money as a musician the way things are structured now. However, from what I understand, concerts and merchandise sales are where artists make the majority of their money now and not record sales. As far as genres dying, I definitely don't agree with that. I can't keep up with the number of bands coming out now. Now, I must qualify that with the fact that I mostly listen to European and more underground metal, but I also listen to a lot of mainstream American rock too. I go to at least 5 rock concerts a year and there is no sign the genre is dying. Just in this past year, new unique bands breaking into the mainstream like Ghost, Red Sun Rising, and Royal Blood have all been added to my collection (and there are more). I listen to the "Rock 30" countdown on occasion and there is ALWAYS at least one band on there that I have never heard of before.
Pop still has new talents despite all the crap, IMO, including Taylor Swift and Adele. Definitely when it comes to "Rap & Hip Hop" there is very little of interest going on over there anymore, IMO. I go to classical and jazz concerts at my college all the time, and almost all of the performers are under the age of 50 (and they're high class performers, too, such as Arturo O'Farill, who is 55 but still a pretty new artist, or Trio Solisti). Classical and Jazz may by heading toward death with the audiences as many of them are aging, however at the moment, the concert hall at my school is full or nearly full for every performance.
I can understand that "talent" is subjective for sure, which may be what we disagree upon. Country lacks talent at the moment, IMO, just to throw that out there. But the "dying" you speak of, I don't see it, especially for rock. Losing talent in pop, rap/hip-hop, and country, I definitely see that but that could just be my personal opinion coming in.
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Jack Keck
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I have replaced nearly all of my vinyl with CDs. Given what used CDs are going for, why not? I have two LPs left that have not come out on CD. I had them burned onto CD-Rs, but the CD-Rs degraded. They have been ripped to an external hard drive, a thumb drive, my phone, and one of them is in the cloud. Color me paranoid, but I want physical copies of my music. If I found the two albums on CD, my turntable would be up for sale. If I decide to downsize my living situation, I'd rather move the CDs than the vinyl.
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