How the CD lost its sheen - a 30 year tale of rise and fall

I actually think there is some truth to that, why give the people the best when you can give them something decent and improve upon it a couple of times.

 

The compact disc has proved surprisingly tenacious. It still dominates markets such as Japan, Germany and South Africa; it makes for a better Christmas present than an iTunes voucher

I disagree, i mean i still buy expensive CD's but I don't give them as a present anymore....they're not worth as a present in 2015 at least not for the ordinary people.

 

yeah, IMO this might be a little exception:



24 bits files? and The BEATLES entire discography? selling that was crazy IMO, i love the sound of those files.

 

Sure, but now there is absolutely zero motivation to research a new physical format. Think about it. The situation is apples to oranges compared to 1990.

 

Unfortunately your silver lining is false. Check out this article or several other like it http://www.dummymag.com/news/music-streaming-is-worse-for-the-environment-then-you-think.

These servers that store the data (in this case "music") use an incredible amount of energy. The notion that things being online or on a computer is saving the planet is a very well told lie by the technology sector.

 

Well there is electricity. For physical media you have manufactoring, packaging, transport. The server would be the "greener" alternative.

 

More than likely new hi-res file formats and dedicated players will be the trend. One way or another the industry finds ways to get us to spend money on music we already own.

 

Well yeah but the didn't release them til 2000 or so? How many releases of the same stuff were there before that?

 

December 8, 2009

This is a pretty famous spanish band called Hombres G, they have a new boxset coming next June 2th. In order to help sales they are signing each boxset booklet right now...



These are the current times for many artists....the last push IMO.

BTW one of those signed copies is mine.

 

Great article. The inevitability of music consumption evolving beyond the CD is one thing, but the industry's unwillingness to consider retail pricing issues (in the early 2000's) also played a role in its somewhat quick demise as a dominant retail medium.

 

I have no qualms surreptitiously downloading a copy of something I've already purchased several times over (Rolling Stones, looking at you...)

I mean, if I've already bought it, I can either needledrop it/rip&burn myself...or just cricky da rinky, gnomesaine??

 

I have NO faith in the opinions of the general public. They have **** taste in everything.

 

Did you even read the article? Manufacturing and transport are factored in and according to the author "the stats tell us that streaming an album online 27 times can in fact use more energy in total than the manufacture and distribution of its CD equivalent."

Right now the internet uses 10% of power on the planet, this number is likely to increase dramatically in coming years. I don't think you fully comprehend how much energy servers use.

 

But then you gotta power your amp and CD player to play the disc, right??

 

I think the difference is that when you are done you turn the amp and CD player off, but the server stays on 100% of the time. In my own setup I have all of my CDs ripped to a server and I never turn the server off, even though I only access it for an hour or two a day to sync my phone or to stream stuff to my receiver.

 

As long as albums are still being made available on CD, I'll still buy them. I hate digital download services and vinyl is too much of a pain to take care of.

 

Wouldn't you have to power your amp and internet portal to stream the music, as well?

 

It takes just as much to properly care for an LP as it does a CD :

Don't get them dirty, put them up when you're done.

Ta-da!!!

 

Nah.

If I'm streaming music, I'm using earbuds.

 

Some people here are talking like the various entities of the music industry had a choice between putting music on digital media and not doing so. The technology was there and it was going to be utilized, if not by company X, then by company Y.

Although vinyl is undergoing a current minor renaissance, any company that had been clueless enough to buck the trend toward CDs back in the day would have gone out of business.

 

you also need replacement needles for those...

 

CDs aren't dust and hair magnets like vinyl records are.

 

^ This pretty much.

But i disagree a little on the extra pixels, people DO care about them (at least i do) perhaps not pixels saved on a disc anymore, like blu-ray discs though.

 

Your LPs must sound terrible then.

 

BTW why vinyls require this?



Anti static record cleaner? what happens if you don't brush them?