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CDs are pretty much dead... Long Live USB?
- Thread starter RadioactiveGuy4
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USB is dead. Long live direct injection into the prefrontal cortex!
I'm very worried about the future of music. I loved CD's when they first came out as nothing could touch them when it came to portability and great tone. Albums always sucked as far as I was concerned. Yeah the album was cool to look at and the inner sleeve usually had some cool stuff on it like lyrics, pics of the band etc, but the crackling and popping drove me nuts!!!!
I haven't bought a CD in probably six years now as I get pretty much all my music now from iTunes. The convenience of it is great and they've upped the sound quality over the years as well.
However as far as I'm concerned, CD's where by far the best sound quality out there at that time and probably still are as long as the master recording was done properly and not maxed out etc.
I'm not sure what the future holds for music and the bands I listen to. I'm always looking for something new and exciting, but it seems to be fewer and far between these days.
The entire industry is in shambles and it's worrysome as far as I'm concerned.
I haven't bought a CD in probably six years now as I get pretty much all my music now from iTunes. The convenience of it is great and they've upped the sound quality over the years as well.
However as far as I'm concerned, CD's where by far the best sound quality out there at that time and probably still are as long as the master recording was done properly and not maxed out etc.
I'm not sure what the future holds for music and the bands I listen to. I'm always looking for something new and exciting, but it seems to be fewer and far between these days.
The entire industry is in shambles and it's worrysome as far as I'm concerned.
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We still sold all the CDs we printed at shows over the course of a year. Probably sold more CDs than digital downloads because people like to stream for free on Spotify anyways, but people impulse buy CDs at gigs. Especially people over the age of 27. There are still those who use them. I prefer them to listening to mp3s....
Well there is still star born every day but they won't become as big as they used to and it is ok I think.
also revered composer and performer like Chopin, Bach Mozart ... they weren't big star, most of them did have a hard time living on top of being sick etc.
This is a bit off topic but I still use cd’s to learn new material. I have Spotify but accessing songs from them to my home system produces a lot of extreme noise when using my IPhone. Just the right side on stereo input. Maybe it’s my phone but cd’s are still relevant for some of us. Am I old??
How seeing the death of CDs that much of a problem ?
Artist before the invention of record did sell sheet music and did perform etc etc.
Artist before the invention of record did sell sheet music and did perform etc etc.
OK...I'm not familiar with "flash cards" - thumb drives, sure, flash cards??? What are those and how do you use them in your car?
Yeah..yeah.
CD's are defunct.
But this is the problem.
When I first started collecting music,I had ten LP vinyl records.
When the cassette was introduced,I got rid of my LP's and got cassettes.
Years later the cassette was replaced with the CD.
I started to replace my cassettes with CD's.
But found out again that some of my music wasn't re-released in CD!
Now I have a larger collecting of CD's.
And I already know that a good chunk of the music I have on CD's will not be re-released in USB also.
Stop this silliness!
CD's are defunct.
But this is the problem.
When I first started collecting music,I had ten LP vinyl records.
When the cassette was introduced,I got rid of my LP's and got cassettes.
Years later the cassette was replaced with the CD.
I started to replace my cassettes with CD's.
But found out again that some of my music wasn't re-released in CD!
Now I have a larger collecting of CD's.
And I already know that a good chunk of the music I have on CD's will not be re-released in USB also.
Stop this silliness!
SirMjac28
Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion
Wow! Sounds bleak!
Glad I landed in the glass of water. What water splashed out, left the glass half full.
I had a Sears portable cassette player with headphones in the 80's. Used to walk around town using it. Boy did it eat batteries but it sure sounded good (at the time) and loud in my ears. Now I've listened to tapes and they sound so dull and lackluster compared to th artificially enhanced CD's.
My poor brother was OCD about CD's. When he died in 2008, he left me about 10,000 CD's. We've been storing them in a heated storage unit since, and at one time we thought they would be worth something. I don't think I could sell a full USPS Priority box full for 10 cents a CD. Sheesh I wish my brother had collected baseball cards or something worthwhile!
EDIT: I just had a thought while writing this and reading other comments. When you "buy" a movie from Amazon, you never really own it. It can't be downloaded, and it only plays in its proprietary player. If you are out of cell range, it won't log in and allow you to play it. I'm glad I have a whole bunch of movies on HD DVD I can rip to my computer and iPads. It's such a ripoff to say they "sell" you a movie when in actuality you're only "renting" the movie for the duration of your life. You can't do anything with it but play it in Amazon player.
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Nothing was cooler than putting tape over those little holes thingies on the top of a cassette of some horrible band your mom liked then recording your favorite band on it and putting it back in its case as little surprise for good ol’ mom.
The younger generation will never understand the special relationship between a pencil and a cassette.
I had a Sears portable cassette player with headphones in the 80's. Used to walk around town using it. Boy did it eat batteries but it sure sounded good (at the time) and loud in my ears. Now I've listened to tapes and they sound so dull and lackluster compared to th artificially enhanced CD's.
My poor brother was OCD about CD's. When he died in 2008, he left me about 10,000 CD's. We've been storing them in a heated storage unit since, and at one time we thought they would be worth something. I don't think I could sell a full USPS Priority box full for 10 cents a CD. Sheesh I wish my brother had collected baseball cards or something worthwhile!
I will buy all your cd’s for $100. Seriously
I bought my first cd 20 years ago and it still sounds as good as it did the first day I listened to it.
The meter is totally slammed- completely pinned into the vampire blood magenta red maximum amplitude section of said meter's visual display.
