CD's and cassettes now on their way out
Originally Posted by starfish1031:
“And you're getting your info from a tabloid ??”
“And you're getting your info from a tabloid ??”
Snobby much? The exact same information has been reported by a number of other papers and entertainment websites.
Most of my cassettes work excellently, produce excellent sound and long will I continue to play them 
Some are admittedly knackered though lol
Some are admittedly knackered though lol
I still have a few cassettes and plenty of cds that I still play alot.
I have an mp3 player too though!
I have an mp3 player too though!
I still have most of my cassettes from my childhood. They're gathering dust but I won't get rid of them as they mean something to me. I rarely buy CDs now and on the rare occasion I do the first thing I do with them when I get home is rip them to my Macbook and put them on my iPod. I just buy my music from iTunes now. Much easier and quicker. Last week I managed to download a whole album in a couple of minutes thanks to my fast broadband connection
I wonder if I Sun reporter did any investigating for this story or just lugged in on a phone call?
Anyone who classes the Sun as
Newsworthy must class Macdonalds as a banquet.
Anyone who classes the Sun as
Newsworthy must class Macdonalds as a banquet.
I've thousands of CDs and still buy them.
I don't have an mp3 player, beyond my laptop and would never pay actual cash money for a lossy format.
I don't have an mp3 player, beyond my laptop and would never pay actual cash money for a lossy format.
I miss having the 'physical media', there was something I used to like about having something I could hold and read the little booklets. I still tend to buy CDs and then put them on the I-Pod although I download about 50% of my music. Then again I find since the Internet came about I've bought more music than I did before.v
I am strangely nostalgic about cassettes. Think they remind me of my youth. My car still has a cassette player in it, which is odd as a it's a new ish car. And the sound quality seems a bit naff on seine I-pod downloads. Might be my ears though.
I am strangely nostalgic about cassettes. Think they remind me of my youth. My car still has a cassette player in it, which is odd as a it's a new ish car. And the sound quality seems a bit naff on seine I-pod downloads. Might be my ears though.
I think I am settling down to radio and Youtube as the way forward. Indeed, I am in the process of deciding my 100 fave singles from the 60s, and all of them have been available on Youtube! (I shall list them on The 60s Appreciation Thread later).
Originally Posted by ack1990:
“Snobby much? The exact same information has been reported by a number of other papers and entertainment websites.”
“Snobby much? The exact same information has been reported by a number of other papers and entertainment websites.”
How am I being "snobby"??? I just love how people can just base their facts from a tab... Nobody really knows if CDs are their way out. They keep selling. I get my CDs from target and they sell out quickly.
Originally Posted by scrilla:
“I've thousands of CDs and still buy them.
I don't have an mp3 player, beyond my laptop and would never pay actual cash money for a lossy format.”
“I've thousands of CDs and still buy them.
I don't have an mp3 player, beyond my laptop and would never pay actual cash money for a lossy format.”
100% agree.
I've never paid for a download and I never intend to and just to clarify I've never illegally downloaded music either. There will always be a demand for CDs, and vinyl for that matter, as there will always be people who want the highest quality source material.
For as long as CDs are around, I'll be buying them rather than downloading. Downloading feels very "throw-away" to me.
I've no problem with mp3s I have loads of music on the laptop and I'm always listening to my mp3 player
I still prefer to have the CD though over mp3s it seems a shame that not many people are buying them anymore! 
I still prefer to have the CD though over mp3s
it seems a shame that not many people are buying them anymore!
I think it's a sad state of affairs when grown men and women can go on itunes and proclaim they've 'bought an album'. With teenagers I can kind of understand it, they're too young to really understand what big business music was. They will never know the experience of going into a high street and being presented with CDs, cassettes and vinyl singles and albums and most of the singles would have different tracklists, you bought carefully. Now it's all CDs and vinyls and most can't afford vinyl and the rest just use itunes. Sad really.
Originally Posted by longliving:
“I think it's a sad state of affairs when grown men and women can go on itunes and proclaim they've 'bought an album'. With teenagers I can kind of understand it, they're too young to really understand what big business music was. They will never know the experience of going into a high street and being presented with CDs, cassettes and vinyl singles and albums and most of the singles would have different tracklists, you bought carefully. Now it's all CDs and vinyls and most can't afford vinyl and the rest just use itunes. Sad really.”
“I think it's a sad state of affairs when grown men and women can go on itunes and proclaim they've 'bought an album'. With teenagers I can kind of understand it, they're too young to really understand what big business music was. They will never know the experience of going into a high street and being presented with CDs, cassettes and vinyl singles and albums and most of the singles would have different tracklists, you bought carefully. Now it's all CDs and vinyls and most can't afford vinyl and the rest just use itunes. Sad really.”
If people want high end sound there is the FLAC format which is better than CD quality. Digital earphones can produce virtually studio quality sound as the artists recorded it instead of the analogue hum or "warmth" people claim vinyl provides that robs the depth of more complex musical compositions made using digital tools and production.
I doubt the youth of tomorrow will lament the loss of the ability to ruin their music due to a couple of scratches or a tapes being chewed up or caught so you either lose the album or have to carefully use a pair of tweezers and a pencil over the course of ten minutes to try save it. What a terrible loss.
Also what shame people don't have to buy more than one version of a CD to get all the Bside tracks and remixes and can instead pick and choose what version they want instead. Damn the luxury of technological advances making listening to and accessing music easy and varied!
As for art work, you can zoom into megapixels if you really want to appreciate ALL the detail on the front of Dr Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. How awful!
You seem nostalgic for a less convenient time involving the greater waste of money and resources on manufacturing unnecessary formats for a non tangible product, not thinking of all the chopped down and pulped trees and oil used to create means of conveyance for a product that does not require anything more than ears and a means of storage. I cannot figure out why except nostalgia.
I have boxes full of CDs I barely listen to because Youtube, mp3 rippers and digital files mean I don't have to use them.
Originally Posted by OnDatKryptonite:
“If people want high end sound there is the FLAC format which is better than CD quality. Digital earphones can produce virtually studio quality sound as the artists recorded it instead of the analogue hum or "warmth" people claim vinyl provides that robs the depth of more complex musical compositions made using digital tools and production.”
“If people want high end sound there is the FLAC format which is better than CD quality. Digital earphones can produce virtually studio quality sound as the artists recorded it instead of the analogue hum or "warmth" people claim vinyl provides that robs the depth of more complex musical compositions made using digital tools and production.”
That is very true, however that benefit is only of use if the playback hardware is capable of revealing such detail. Sadly today very, very, few people, especially the young, are interested in investing in the hardware to reveal such detail. As long as it "sounds alright" they are happy.
A good quality vinyl pressing doesn't have any "analogue hum" at all and is more than capable of producing the same depth of detail as a digital recording because, as I have already said, ultimately the quality you actually hear is very much dependent upon the quality of the hardware being used.
Originally Posted by OnDatKryptonite:
“As for art work, you can zoom into megapixels if you really want to appreciate ALL the detail on the front of Dr Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. How awful!
You seem nostalgic for a less convenient time involving the greater waste of money and resources on manufacturing unnecessary formats for a non tangible product, not thinking of all the chopped down and pulped trees and oil used to create means of conveyance for a product that does not require anything more than ears and a means of storage. I cannot figure out why except nostalgia.
I have boxes full of CDs I barely listen to because Youtube, mp3 rippers and digital files mean I don't have to use them.”
“As for art work, you can zoom into megapixels if you really want to appreciate ALL the detail on the front of Dr Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. How awful!
You seem nostalgic for a less convenient time involving the greater waste of money and resources on manufacturing unnecessary formats for a non tangible product, not thinking of all the chopped down and pulped trees and oil used to create means of conveyance for a product that does not require anything more than ears and a means of storage. I cannot figure out why except nostalgia.
I have boxes full of CDs I barely listen to because Youtube, mp3 rippers and digital files mean I don't have to use them.”
I disagree completely. For many music lovers the physical format, especially vinyl, is a very tangible product, that is why they love it so much and is one of the reasons why demand for vinyl is increasing.
I assume you are a young person. In which case you probably have never experienced what it was like as a teenager in the 1970s, as I was, when your favourite artist released a new album. That meant, after weeks of anticipation, finally making a trip in to town by bus whilst hoping the record store still had a copy, and then, after buying it, the anticipation on the way home of wondering what it will sound like before finally being able to put it on the record deck and listen to it for the first time; whilst pouring over every inch of the album artwork and the lyrics.
If you have never done that you will never understand why people hold vinyl and CD in such high regard, and for that I genuinely feel sorry for so many young people today for whom music has become a disposable commodity to be consumed and thrown away little different from fast food or anything else in today's disposable society.
I've got over 1000 albums, considerably more CDs, a "proper" Hi-fi and an MP3 player but for me an MP3 player will never replicate the pleasure of listening to a good quality vinyl pressing or a CD on my Hi-fi.
They sold more vinyl last year than they have in many years, the most since 1992, millions of vinyl records were sold. I suppose that is the way it goes, youtube, mp3 rippers, digital files. I can do that too. I can type any song into google, pretty sure a youtube link will pop up, I can click it and it will play. That's not listening to music, that's like listening to the radio. You don't own it, it's nothing, you can't hold it in your hands, you don't own it. That's why I said grown men and women. Grown MEN and WOMEN who should know better. Who DID grow up when you could walk into stores and buy music on many formats and when I say stores guys, I'm talking the year 2000. I remember in 2000 I could walk into my local Asda and buy vinyl. Vinyl singles mind you but still vinyl then you had the cassettes and CDs on the racks. You could buy CDs, cassettes in vinyl in RS McColls back when they were a decent store heck even my local Tesco back then, aswell as having a large selection of tapes and CDs had a small selection of vinyl. Woolworths! They pretty much killed off the CD single. When they said no more! The numbers in which CD singles were made drastically declined and that was just a few years ago. Now if you want CD singles you need to go to HMV.com or Amazon.com or find a really big HMV store that will stock them, the smaller ones simply don't stock them anymore.
Kids these days and by that I mean TEENAGERS do not have any value to music. I guarantee you that if the situation ever came back where buying it was much easier than accessing it online they would care about it cause it would be costing them. But it's the adults that really puzzle me, how can you sit there and go on itunes and Amazon and tell people.......I bought a single. I bought an album. You know fine well you ain't buying nothing, you're paying for something a Google search brings up and gives you for free. And the adults do know better, they remember how it USED to be, the excitement that USED to be there when a new single or album came out. And then you an argue on sound quality and artwork which you know what.....not even CDs and tapes could compete with vinyl on that one. There is no comparison. To me it's an experience, an enjoyment, when I listen to music I turn the volume up, I sing along, I enjoy it. I don't know how people can sit with the headphones on and enjoy music that way or even playing a youtube video. Maybe as background noise or just a busride somewhere but not your PRIMARY way of listening to music. You're ONLY way of experiencing music. To me that isn't right.
Kids these days and by that I mean TEENAGERS do not have any value to music. I guarantee you that if the situation ever came back where buying it was much easier than accessing it online they would care about it cause it would be costing them. But it's the adults that really puzzle me, how can you sit there and go on itunes and Amazon and tell people.......I bought a single. I bought an album. You know fine well you ain't buying nothing, you're paying for something a Google search brings up and gives you for free. And the adults do know better, they remember how it USED to be, the excitement that USED to be there when a new single or album came out. And then you an argue on sound quality and artwork which you know what.....not even CDs and tapes could compete with vinyl on that one. There is no comparison. To me it's an experience, an enjoyment, when I listen to music I turn the volume up, I sing along, I enjoy it. I don't know how people can sit with the headphones on and enjoy music that way or even playing a youtube video. Maybe as background noise or just a busride somewhere but not your PRIMARY way of listening to music. You're ONLY way of experiencing music. To me that isn't right.
