How soon are CDs becoming the next dead format of Media storage?
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So guys, I was just wondering how long you all think it will be until CDs are officially the next dead form of Music storage (Following cassette tapes and vinyl)?
As now we're in the year 2013, and most of the new younger generation get their music by buying iTunes downloads (Some still buy CDs in shops) will we CDs facing a death and becoming obsolete soon?
As now we're in the year 2013, and most of the new younger generation get their music by buying iTunes downloads (Some still buy CDs in shops) will we CDs facing a death and becoming obsolete soon?
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Now these days, you can pick up a whole album for around the same price, if not less! It's quite surprising at first when I saw Justin Timberlake's Justified album for a quid in my local CeX a few weeks ago
i picked up his second album for a quid in poundland last year, because i lost my original cd.:o
Vinyls still exist anyway. Tapes...lets not go there
Cds will be around for a long time yet.
Having surround sound set up to my PC means massive benefit of mp3s over CD.
1. Don't have to constantly change CDs
2. Playlists etc
3. Easy to find albums quickly without bringing down a tower of CDs
4. No CD player taking up extra space
And of course one of life's little delights is visiting someone and leafing through, and comenting on their CD collection:)
Cant really do that with MP3
CDs still account for @ 70% of music sales in the UK so they won't be dying out any time soon.
Universal Music's digital boss: CD definitely not dead
Saying that, last music that I bought was on CDs. I got all three albums of the British rapper Blak Twang on CDs; for some reason the downloads were more expensive. I predict those will probably be my last ones.
Something you won't be able to do with your mp3 collection if you get bored of it.
On the whole I don't find downloads very good value for money. In many cases you can still buy the CD for the same price as the download album from itunes and often if you pick up the CD album in the sales whether online or on the high street you can purchase it far cheaper than you can the download version. You can rip the CD to your hard drive if you want to, sell it if you get bored of it, donate it to charity, lend it to friends or family, use it as a coaster if particularly bad or even use it to scrape ice off the car windscreen in the winter!:D So you see there are multiple uses for the old CD- you can't do many of those things with an MP3.
I will agree that the sound quality of tracks purchased from itunes is pretty good and you won't find a discernible difference between the compressed format (recorded at a decent bitrate) and the lossless tracks on a CD unless you're an audiophile, although I'm still amazed how many people listen to MP3's at really low bit rates which sound bloody awful. The disposable nature of music these days I guess, when people just want to listen to the track immediately and don't really care too much about the quality. I think CD's will be around for a few years yet, although the death of high street retailers could certainly speed up their downfall!:(
CDs, like vinyl, will endure while there are musicians and music lovers who do genuinely care for music, how it is produced, and how it is listened to.
I can't imagine there will be many classical or Jazz fans who will be dumping their vinyl and CD collections in favour of downloads any time soon. The same is also true of most rock fans. But I think physical music sales will continue to fall off a cliff with the more mainstream genres, such as Pop and Urban.
It's a really good point that. Of course, many CD collectors rip flac files from their CD collections and now store them on streaming devices. As the devices for doing this become cheaper and more popular, then we may see the end of CDs.
Olive 4HD is a great streaming and CD player. Having said that, it;s not as perfect as a CD player. Same goes for FLAC. Not all FLAC encoders would rip a perfect FLAC. The more important thing, what are you going to do with all the music you have stored on your streaming devices hard drive once the hard drive is worn out and can not be used anymore? You would have to either buy a new streaming device ( rather expensive if you are buying a quality one, over £800 the cheapest), or you could buy a new hard drive and install it yourself. Not many people know how to replace a hard drive. Another thing saving your music from your old hard drive before copying it onto a new one. I've lost so many files that I had stored onto external hard drives simply because when they broke, not all the files were readable.
I have some CD's on the other hand bought back in the late 80's and early 90's and they are still playable and have a wonderful sound.
I'm not against the streaming devices, but in my opinion they are not a reliable way of storing music.
With virtually nowhere on the High Street selling CDs now, power has shifted to the online outlets, dominated by Amazon, and one day, probably sooner than we think, they'll start telling the labels that they don't want the CD version of any given album, and will go download only... without Amazon, there'll be hardly any point going to the expense of pressing CDs at all, and a download-only paradigm will be on us, like it or not...
What'll be interesting will be to see who the first major artist to do it will be... my money's on a teeny act like 1D or Bieber...
Considering Amazon now stock over 1 million vinyl albums I don't for one minute believe they would do that. They aren't going to dump a format that still accounts for 70% of all music sold.