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Old 25-06-2007, 19:51
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Now the pysical single as dissapered from most shops now Will the pysical album dissapear from the shelves soon?
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Old 25-06-2007, 20:07
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No, because people are still buying them.
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Old 25-06-2007, 20:36
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I hope not. I still like to by the pysical album from the shops as I like to have something - to me an album is not just about the music, but the whole package. Plus if you download the album you have a problem when your PC gets replaced or your iPod breaks etc.
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Old 25-06-2007, 21:39
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I hope not. I still like to by the pysical album from the shops as I like to have something - to me an album is not just about the music, but the whole package. Plus if you download the album you have a problem when your PC gets replaced or your iPod breaks etc.
thats why itunes ask you to backup your purchases when you download them now onto a cd,so if one of the 2 things you mentioned happens you can just put them back on and authorise your new pc or ipod to use them.

Although saying that you can't beat a cd or even better a vinyl lp for the fact of the tactile value and album art,so i have the best of both worlds.

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Old 26-06-2007, 10:22
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Digital bundle sales aren't very high at the moment, CDs are still king of physical albums
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Old 26-06-2007, 10:28
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Digital bundle sales aren't very high at the moment, CDs are still king of physical albums
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Old 26-06-2007, 11:45
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Physical albums will disappear just like the vinyl disappeared at the beginning of the 90s.

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Old 26-06-2007, 13:55
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I only buy physical albums (CDs). I can normally find them cheaper on Amazon or a lot of the time in HMV than I can on iTunes. And as for backing them up on a CD, why not just buy the CD in the first place?

I doubt I'll ever want to download music, I find if I own a CD I feel like I actually own the album!
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Old 26-06-2007, 14:17
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No they never will
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Old 26-06-2007, 14:44
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Yes I think they will as will DVDs and most forms of media we take for granted now.

I have a fully integrated PC based media center throughout my home for 18 months now, I never use CDs or DVDs everything is read/copied downloaded to the hard drive.

With the new MS Mediacenter as standard on all new PCs this is going to be the way forward.
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Old 29-06-2007, 12:31
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Physical albums will disappear just like the vinyl disappeared at the beginning of the 90s.

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Would that be the reason why vinyl sales are now actually increasing, year on year, then?

There will always be a market for vinyl and CDs, simply because there are enough of us left who want to listen to a quality recording on a hi-fi, rather than a poor, low-bitrate, substitute on an mp3 player.

Don't get me wrong, mp3s are great when travelling on a train, flying, or driving, but at home I wouldn't even consider my mp3 player as my source of choice for listening to music.
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Old 29-06-2007, 12:42
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Would that be the reason why vinyl sales are now actually increasing, year on year, then?
Exactly

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Old 29-06-2007, 13:55
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I refuse to buy music that's encoded using lossy compression and that has digital rights management associated with it. I just don't trust that it isn't going to disappear on me (like my very early DRM purchases have done).

I'd much prefer to have a physical CD -- I have the freedom to rip it to whatever format I wish, and I know it's not suddenly going to stop working. Plus you get extras with a CD such as album art, video clips, the occasional DVD, etc.
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Old 29-06-2007, 14:31
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Vinyl sales are increasing again.

Though vinyl LP sales constitute only one percent of new music sold in America each year, that percentage is growing as more record companies press new albums into vinyl. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, vinyl sales have doubled in percentage of music sales since 2000 to become a $110-million-dollar industry. Since that same year, overall music sales dropped to $12.2 billion from $14.4 billion, a plunge that the vinyl industry escaped without a scratch.


https://tv.ku.edu/news/2006/02/27/vi...cord-industry/

You can buy a CD album off Amazon for less than £10 which is not affected by lossy compression, why buy a load of data off I-Tunes for a similar price that could get trashed if your hard drive fails and comes without a nice physical case and booklet?
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Old 29-06-2007, 20:04
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I don't like bying albums off itunes , I buy single songs but I prefer to buy physical albums.
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Old 29-06-2007, 20:26
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Would that be the reason why vinyl sales are now actually increasing, year on year, then?

There will always be a market for vinyl and CDs, simply because there are enough of us left who want to listen to a quality recording on a hi-fi, rather than a poor, low-bitrate, substitute on an mp3 player.

Don't get me wrong, mp3s are great when travelling on a train, flying, or driving, but at home I wouldn't even consider my mp3 player as my source of choice for listening to music.
You're being misleading, vinyl sales haven't been increasing year on year. They are an absolute miniscule of the amount sold say 20 years ago, they went from 90% market share to about 1% now fluctuate about 3-5%.. it's not a market leading format by any stretch of the imagination, so don't harp on about the vinyl comeback when it's quite simply bollocks. Besides it's only DJ culture that brough it back, and more and more djs use mp3 and cd now, so it will fall.

MP3 might not be ideal, but with bandwidth becoming faster and storage space becoming cheaper, there's no reason why in a year or two, we'll abolish compressed formats and store our music in uncompressed Wav format, which is identical to CD. That said, if you store your mp3s in 256 or 320, you're lying if you say you can tell the difference between that and a CD, quite frankly.
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Old 29-06-2007, 20:42
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For someone such as myself, who doesn't own a credit card; I personally fear the possible demise of the CD format.

There are some people who believe that albums are dead nevermind the CD
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Old 29-06-2007, 20:53
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For someone such as myself, who doesn't own a credit card; I personally fear the possible demise of the CD format.

There are some people who believe that albums are dead nevermind the CD
Don't worry I think cds will be the main format for at least the next 5 years.
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Old 29-06-2007, 21:16
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I sincerely hope that they don't disappear!
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Old 29-06-2007, 22:22
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You're being misleading, vinyl sales haven't been increasing year on year. They are an absolute miniscule of the amount sold say 20 years ago, they went from 90% market share to about 1% now fluctuate about 3-5%.. it's not a market leading format by any stretch of the imagination, so don't harp on about the vinyl comeback when it's quite simply bollocks. Besides it's only DJ culture that brough it back, and more and more djs use mp3 and cd now, so it will fall.

MP3 might not be ideal, but with bandwidth becoming faster and storage space becoming cheaper, there's no reason why in a year or two, we'll abolish compressed formats and store our music in uncompressed Wav format, which is identical to CD. That said, if you store your mp3s in 256 or 320, you're lying if you say you can tell the difference between that and a CD, quite frankly.
Apart from being remarkably insulting, your reply has taken my original response totally out of context, however I'm obviously more adult and not need to resort to cheap insults when I disagree with a reply.

My reply about vinyl sales was in reply to was in response to Jack's reply about vinyl disappearin. He understood my reply perfectly as shown by his response, it's a pity tou couldn't show the same level of understanding.

As for mp3s, I don't download them simply because iTunes, plus others, appear to only offer a bit-rate of 128 kbit/s which, if you play through a hi-fi, givers a noticeable degredation in quality compared to a cd or vinyl. As for my mp3s. they're all ripped from my cd collection and, yes, they are ripped at a suitably high bit-rate. But, as I do rip my own cds I'd rather play the cd or vinyl original on my home system.
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Old 29-06-2007, 23:48
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I hope they dont. And I also really hope that vinyl singles do not disappear either. I do not download music, I much prefer having a physical release.
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Old 30-06-2007, 02:40
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Apart from being remarkably insulting, your reply has taken my original response totally out of context, however I'm obviously more adult and not need to resort to cheap insults when I disagree with a reply.

My reply about vinyl sales was in reply to was in response to Jack's reply about vinyl disappearin. He understood my reply perfectly as shown by his response, it's a pity tou couldn't show the same level of understanding.

As for mp3s, I don't download them simply because iTunes, plus others, appear to only offer a bit-rate of 128 kbit/s which, if you play through a hi-fi, givers a noticeable degredation in quality compared to a cd or vinyl. As for my mp3s. they're all ripped from my cd collection and, yes, they are ripped at a suitably high bit-rate. But, as I do rip my own cds I'd rather play the cd or vinyl original on my home system.
If you found my reply insulting I suggest you should get out more. I made valid points, not once did I resort to any "cheap insults", please re-read, digest and comment calmly.
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Old 30-06-2007, 10:49
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I hope physical albums (CD's) don't disappear as I won't buy a download on principle the way things are at the moment.

My reasons:

1. Digital downloads should be a lot cheaper as the retailer dosen't have to stock multiple physical copies, there's not the same distribution, printing, designing, manufacturing, duplicating and storage costs with a digital download as with a CD - 12 track album on iTunes = £9, 12 track Album from CDWow = £7.99/£8.99 (and possibility of bonus tracks, video's, CD-ROM content or free 2nd CD/DVD). The digital downloaded album should be a fiver or less imo to account for the savings.

2. In fact, if you have to back up a download to your own CDR it'll cost more than buying the CD and you don't get the box or artwork and more importantly a CDR is a lot more fragile then a proper duplicated CD.

3. I refuse to be dictated to by the people at Apple etc on how I listen to my music, where I listen to it, and with what software I have to use (I got rid of my Apple nano as I loathe iTunes and got an MP3 player that supports drag and drop in windows and a proper directory/file structure - which incidently is not much bigger than a nano, twice the capacity, half the price and better quality playback) - how, when and on what I use is MY choice not their's.
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Old 30-06-2007, 11:11
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I think it's disappointing, and yet another way they are forcing new technology onto people, without the customers being given a choice as to how they purchase their music.

I'd much rather buy an an actual physical single or album. I can't be bothered with all the downloading business.
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Old 30-06-2007, 11:21
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I only buy physical albums (CDs). I can normally find them cheaper on Amazon or a lot of the time in HMV than I can on iTunes. And as for backing them up on a CD, why not just buy the CD in the first place?

I doubt I'll ever want to download music, I find if I own a CD I feel like I actually own the album!
Well said!! I can see the point in downloading the odd song as you may not be interested in going out and buying the whole album but apart from that I really cannot see the point in downloading. The quality is rarely as good as a physical CD, the download is easily lost, you don't actually OWN anything with the money you've spent and then if you're suppose to back it up by downloading it on to a CD-R, well you might as well have just bought on CD in the 1st place. In most cases I don't think you're saving much money.

Downloading has it's place but I really think it is sad that it has dominated so much and I hope the craze dies down and people quickly realise that it isn't as great as all that. It's not as if it's even much fun downloading, just a pain in the arse.
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