New decade, end of the CD?

thellama73 wrote: The T wrote: Finnforest wrote: It's my last format.  When it goes, I start buying used CDs only.  When they're gone, I find a new hobby.  So NOT interested in downloading and Ipod etc.  I have an iPhone.. use it for internet, mails, etc etc etc. Even as a camera. But I have ZERO music on it.  I have 1700 cds... The moment I can't buy them anymore, I'll have to live with what I already have. Having everything in a hard drive in one desk in a empty faceless computer is not for me. I need my collection.  Yeah, if physical media for music disappears, I honestly can't see myself collecting it any more.

Finnforest wrote: It's my last format.  When it goes, I start buying used CDs only.  When they're gone, I find a new hobby.  So NOT interested in downloading and Ipod etc.

himtroy wrote: TheGazzardian wrote: himtroy wrote: I'm pretty sure the inconvenience of vinyl has been noted by all.  Thus the rapid evolution away from it.  However theres no reason some of us can't still use them.  I mean, it's not really any more inconvenient for me to walk across the room and put on a vinyl than it is to walk over there and put on a cd/input the Ipod. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that nobody should use them. I still use them, as I said I like collecting them for trophies and I listen to them every once in a while. XD I just find them more difficult to use.  It wasn't meant to be a shot back at you.  Just that some people kinda throw this "well CDs exist! Get rid of that stuff" attitude around.  But more so just that people in here we're saying things like "well vinyl is more inconvenient"  which seems kinda obvious.... I can't help but phrase things so that people think I'm attacking them....

You bitch!!   I kept all my vinyls even when they were supposed to be obsolete only to see most of them  wind up under water.   Some of the best survived though. 

himtroy wrote: I'm pretty sure the inconvenience of vinyl has been noted by all.  Thus the rapid evolution away from it.  However theres no reason some of us can't still use them.  I mean, it's not really any more inconvenient for me to walk across the room and put on a vinyl than it is to walk over there and put on a cd/input the Ipod.

TheGazzardian wrote: I actually find vinyl pretty inconvenient, it's harder to transport, easier to damage, more likely to wear out over time / uses, harder to purchase used unless you really know what to look for. Higher learning curve, more to maintain. I like them for the album art but if I'm honest, I view them more as trophies of music I really like than as my primary source of music, which is still the CD.

This is basically why I'll never become a fan of vinyls.  I grew up on 45's and 33-1/3'rds.  CD's represented a big compromise to the artwork, but the sound really was better.  And the portability is really a good factor.  Some of the non-hardcopy digital formats will probably surpass CDs, but if you're really going to kill the CD and LP, you're going to have to transform the way artwork is delivered (I'm thinking it will be something holographic).  Then again, maybe all us old farts will die off and badly sounding tracks on extremely small devices will rule.


Edited by Slartibartfast - October 06 2010 at 20:47

SaltyJon wrote: I'll be really upset when CDs and physical media disappears.  Sure, it's more convenient to just go and download mp3 copies of a band you like, but it's just missing something...plus, if your hard drive gets messed up you're kind of out of luck unless you've got everything backed up, which I'm sure a lot of people don't.

Edited by himtroy - October 06 2010 at 15:22

SaltyJon wrote: Plus, I seriously doubt that mp3s would sound quite as good on a high quality sound system as a CD or a vinyl would.  I can't speak from experience, though.

Sure they can, but it'll take much longer than just 10 years. In fact, at that point I doubt they'll be mp3s anymore, but some other format, and at that point those, who've published only in this lossy mp3 mofo of ours will sell no more. At least what's good about CDs is that they're worth buying even though there are mp3s. But you can't make an mp3 file sound better when the quality is already lost.

Imagine a band, who only recorde on C-tapes because they were 'the' new thing. There's nothing they can do to make their music sound better nowadays, it's basically lost :P

Never going to give up my ole vinyl  !!! ,
Vinyl  Rules !!! 

Does optical necessary implies digital?

I mean, could an optical cable transfer analog data?

We could burn (cut) the vinyls on demand.

I sure hope not.  I think the music industry is already suffering because of the advent of downloads, and to completely dispose of CD's won't make it any better.  As many have said in this thread, I want to have a physical copy of an album.  While music is of course the most important factor, there is still more to an album than what meets the ear.  I want to be immersed in the cover art and liner notes and lyrics pamphlet, instead of just clicking a bar on a list which causes music to come out.  I don't care if I have to pay extra or wait a few days for it to arrive in the mail, it's still so much more tantalizing to me than a lifeless file.  If downloads become the mainstream way of buying music, let's just that my music purchasing will diminish into nothing, and this thread proves I won't be the only one.