CDs Are Dying Three Times as Fast as Vinyl Is Growing

I'm a vinyl lover for certain and Cd's are still and always will be on my musical restaurants menu, thank you very much. Articles like these are made with marketing in mind, just think about it long and hard folks. Just more media manipulation. Whatever is even remotely truthful about the state of cd's from that article will almost certainly be an un-truth if you will, in due time.

 

Make your own CDs, license any music you want, and release it your own label. There will continue to be micro plants. So far, the vast majority of CD titles are not scarce.

 

It depends on which country. Cd sales are dead in mine. Completely. Streaming has seen to that. Cd sales are strong in Japan.

 

Maybe now....people gotta eat. However, the decline might not have happened quite so quickly if the industry had, "mastered to perfection."

 

Why don’t we just take our meals in pill form, too.

 

I don't think so. The minute people realized they could access more music than they could ever own from their phone, they'd have been over CD's.

 

The leading cause of death is... living. Only constant seems to be change. Truthfully, now is the time to buy CDs
, Old and new

 

99% of people on this forum use their access to more music than could ever own from their phone (for music assessment at least), and they’re not over CD’s (and LP’s).

 

IN A BAG or BINDER? WTF is that? thousands of CDs ripped to a HD/itunes/etc. is ultra convenience...keeping the CDs in their original cases is the norm for me.

 

"Well, I still buy CDs!"

Yes we know. The couple hundred people on this board are still buying CDs. Your numbers are already reflected in the sales stats. There is no conspiracy happening where the data is ignoring you. CDs are dwindling away whether you want to admit or not.

 

Facts are facts. CD's aren't that convenient in the 21st century. I stream very little and listen mostly to LP's and CD's but the fact remains that for most people, streaming is FAR more convenient.

 

But that's not CD's at that point - it's ripped digital files. And still not as ULTRA convenient as streaming.

 

Most people on this forum are a tiny subset of "most people."

 

Most people don’t drink good wine, either.

 

What does that have to do with anything? People are still trumpeting the "convenience" of CD's like it's still 1996 or something. Tech has moved on.

 

all they had to do was offer decent mastering and KILL THE BRICK WALLING! ppl would probably not have reverted back to vinyl due to frustration...

 

Right, and people in general don't care about music that much anyway, compared to everyone here on this board. Music is disposable to them and that is why streaming is a perfect medium for the mass public. It's not for me though.

 

They keep releasing them...and I keep buying them...
Not dead yet....
Let’s see..Tom Petty’s new set, New Dylan Bootleg Series. Big Brother Cheap Thrills,
new John Hiatt.

 

I ponder if the industry is trying to kill off CDs and then vinyl again somewheres down the road to rid themselves of mainstream physical formats? I don't really like streaming. I use YouTube every once in awhile. I used to have both Spotify & Tidal. I'd rather own what I'm listening to vs. it being on a server somewhere. As with both CDDA and Vinyl they have no form of copy protection. The Insusrry tried unsuccessfully to give the CDDA standard DRM but failed miserably. So I can see why they would try to kill certain formats off. LaserDisc also suffered the same fate which technically was the predecessor to CD.

 

HMV are selling it for £99.99 so Amazon almost guaranteed to follow shortly.

 

Since places like Target have decided not to carry discs, IMHO I don't think they should get to sell these Limited editions like the recent McCartney version with two bonus tracks. Let the Indie stores who actually carry CDs sell the special editions. Screw the big box stores I say!!!

 

the CD is a musical seed...you can rip it, stream, copy it, and plant the result wherever it's most convenient for ones enjoyment. Actually it has more uses than it did when it first arrived...

 

And that's why the industry hates it!

 

hell yeah my cd collection is growing more every week.and they sound fantastic.at least as good as my turntable but most of my cds sound better.its all to do with the dac not whats on the cd because all the information is on them.

 

well yes and no...it all started from the CD master...having thousands of ripped songs on ones phone is just as if not more convenient than a streaming service.