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How popular are CD's nowadays?
- Thread starter alaskaleftybass
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I read an article in Japan that cassette tapes were making a comeback. I guess those that are into it are surprised that the dynamics on a tape is quite different from that of a CD or digital and many like the tape.
I cant deny the thought that it might just be cooler to sell tapes rather than CD, if you are a street musician.
I cant deny the thought that it might just be cooler to sell tapes rather than CD, if you are a street musician.
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Still CDs, I have been trying to get the music available on some digital platforms, but the lack of returns outweigh the effort of trying to get something on there.
Vinyl, streaming services, downloads, cd, and tapes. Vinyl is the best for making money, cd's actually still sell a little, and are great for giveaways with shipped vinyl (compilations), tapes for niche people, all vinyl comes with download code, Download code is key for EPK for promo, podcast, radio, and streaming to reach people. I run the record label in my signature. No matter what you sell, it needs to be looked at as the long game.
I hate CDs. I love artwork and liner notes as much if not more than the next guy, and on vinyl, that stuff is great. With a CD, you have to get that stupid insert out of the jewel case and then get a magnifying glass out. Forget that. And since I’m not about to do that, the hundreds I still have just take up space. If It’s not vinyl, I am more than fine going digital.
I buy CDs every week, new stuff and stuff I might have missed through the years.(and that seems never-ending)
The artist I work for sells CDs as well as the usual download sites, but it's a point of sale thing, if you're not gigging I don't know you get your product out there.
The artist I work for sells CDs as well as the usual download sites, but it's a point of sale thing, if you're not gigging I don't know you get your product out there.
I'm working on a project at the moment, that if/when released, would be released on CD, with Digital Downloads available.
I still think that even high quality MP3s sound bad. To me, even the "lossless" digital media doesn't sound as good as a CD. I know that theoretically it should, but I don't think it does.
I don't get the whole vinyl thing, and never will.
Tapes suck. I still remember special ordering a cassette and going to pick it up at the record store. Popped it in the tape deck of my friend's Ford Tempo. The 1st song started, and we were rockin' out. Then we heard that awful sound of the tape being "eaten" by the tape deck. I spliced it back together, but it was obviously never the same again.
I buy CDs for any music that I buy. I also like to read the liner notes. My vehicle is a 2014, and still has a CD player. I'm sure my next won't, and I don't know what I'll do.
I still think that even high quality MP3s sound bad. To me, even the "lossless" digital media doesn't sound as good as a CD. I know that theoretically it should, but I don't think it does.
I don't get the whole vinyl thing, and never will.
Tapes suck. I still remember special ordering a cassette and going to pick it up at the record store. Popped it in the tape deck of my friend's Ford Tempo. The 1st song started, and we were rockin' out. Then we heard that awful sound of the tape being "eaten" by the tape deck. I spliced it back together, but it was obviously never the same again.
I buy CDs for any music that I buy. I also like to read the liner notes. My vehicle is a 2014, and still has a CD player. I'm sure my next won't, and I don't know what I'll do.
CD's..ripped with itunes onto an 8 gig ipod for when I'm away from my Harman Kardon. It's somewhere around 2000 songs, but I play full albums ( hate shuffle). I want the liner notes and artwork and a library I can choose from.
I also have a record player with a USB port that I can burn vinyl onto CD's with and eventually get into itunes and onto the ipod as well.. nice bit of techno...
My last album was released digital-only, though we wanted to offer cassette tapes with attached USB sticks with both flac and mp3 formats. That kinda fell through. I am getting loads of requests for CDs, even though I know a lot of people that don't even have a CD player anymore.
That said, I do have unopened CDs and Vinyls I bought off of Bandcamp that I'm streaming instead because I'm worried about opening them.
Next album will get a CD release because of this fact - you get both a physical medium and a stream option.
That said, I do have unopened CDs and Vinyls I bought off of Bandcamp that I'm streaming instead because I'm worried about opening them.
Next album will get a CD release because of this fact - you get both a physical medium and a stream option.
Music is too easily dismissed when there's no tangible medium supporting it in design and information. It's part of the experience. Also, the sheer volume of downloadable garbage out there has made it a bit of a puzzle to find the good stuff.
I never cared that record companies made money. They did all of the marketing, promotion and finance up front. Now look where the money is. Under Jay-Z's bed? No contest, the ugliest man in music. Of a sort anyway.
Bounty seems to breed mediocrity.
I never cared that record companies made money. They did all of the marketing, promotion and finance up front. Now look where the money is. Under Jay-Z's bed? No contest, the ugliest man in music. Of a sort anyway.
Bounty seems to breed mediocrity.
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I agree , I still have all my vinyl. My Girlfriend often walks by the shelf and asks what I 'm going to do with ALL THAT STUFF.? lol I say " keep them right there on this shelf"
This is the other thing I've never understood about the recent resurgence of vinyl. Wouldn't a USB port (digital) negate the entire purpose of listening to something on vinyl?
No disrespect to @Coot. I'm just using your turntable as an example, since you mentioned it.
None taken.. I just can't find some of my rarer albums in anything but vinyl but I still want to hear it on walks .. or outside my home..
I was doing this until about a year ago. Whoever wound up with my last car also wound up with a barely playable CD of Duke Ellington’s Afro-Eurasian Eclipse, an Oysterhead disc that probably had to be removed from the floor with a putty knife, and exactly one (1) burned copy of Liquid Swords. I probably haven’t bought a CD in almost 10 years.
Edit: (38 yrs old)
I've heard good things about distrokid.com as a way to get your music available on the digital platforms. I've not yet used it personally, butbi plan to do so for this latest batch of songs I'm working on.
I am a big fan of small concerts at parks and going to small live music venues(a decent bar) to listen to up and coming talent. At these shows, when the music moved me, I would always buy a CD to support the band. Always. I don't get out as much as I used to anymore. A couple of years ago, I saw a great new blues talent signed by Alligator Records(do record companies still exist?) and asked if he had a cd available. He said he might have one and went to his car, rummaged around a bit and found one that I bought happily for $20. I haven't listened to it yet. Why? I mostly just listen to Pandora now.
That artist had no other merch with him. I think everyone that likes your music WANTS to support you so, you should always have SOMETHING for your audience to support you with beyond a tip jar at the stage. The quoted post is TRUTH, look at it as the long game. Have a few CDs. Get some shirts made up. Coozies, whatever; anything. Come up with new ideas for merch. Something that can be signed with a sharpie for that little extra.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I like to buy vinyl albums from bands sometimes and I don’t even have a turntable. I just have a small collection of merch from shows I have attended and I listen to pretty much everything in mp3 now.
