People enjoy stealing still? How bad must the economy be I must be lost or one of the lucky ones.
Hmm, I must have missed something I typed. I don't remember saying anything about stealing. I think you are reading to much between the lines.
People enjoy stealing still? How bad must the economy be I must be lost or one of the lucky ones.
Nope, vinyl is alive and doing better each year. Why? Well, first of all vinyl sound sucks (it has scratches, limited dynamic range, limited frequency response, wow, and flutter), but you cannot over compress and distort vinyl without it sounding completely unlistenable. So what happens is that the production quality of the music has to be higher for vinyl to be listenable at all and people that listen to vinyl are more likely to appreciate the quality. If they put the same production quality into CD/HD music, vinyl would be dead, dead, dead. But they don't.
Everyone outsources vinyl so there is no sunk cost, plus it is a lot more expensive to make vinyl now than 20 years ago because there is not much volume.
I've been very disappointed in the last few CDs I've purchased due to their vastly different sound quality from old CDs from the 80s and 90s. It's as if they were the loud, dynamic range compressed radio versions. Maybe these particular bands meant for them to be produced this way but they sound just awful through my quality CD player, amp, and speakers. The rips don't benefit from that sort of production either. For this reason, I've mostly waited on discounts on the MP3 album versus buying CDs for music I like.
If you pop in a new CD and notice it is a lot "louder" overall than an old CD of a similar genre, you've probably experienced this too.
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LOL, then you're truly missing out. And that would be considered the music of my generation. There is absolutely awesome music from many other decades.
The last half was pretty terrible in my opinion. I think 1998 was the worst year for music.
I've been searching for some new music that I like enough to listen to for a couple of years now, but I can't find anything (My tastes are quite diverse). Everything seems to be style over substance, even bands that I used to like are just releasing rubbish.
I think the internet is killing creativity. Everyone is researching everything to death, instead of just coming up with spontaneous original music like they used to.
There is a similar problem in the movie industry, but the occasional quality film is being made.
Sure but you could go back in history and hear people say:
Our decade didn't have amplified instruments
Our decade didn't have electronic synthesizers
Our decade didn't have XY or Z.
I had a music teacher in the 80s who's opinion was that most rock music was lazy because it tended to just repeat and fade out whereas "real" music is written with an actual end.
Artists of a particular decade use the instruments and tools available too them at that time be in a harpsichord, piano, electric guitar, or auto-tune. But instruments do not make for good music, talented people do. You don't need auto tune to fake an artist. See: Milli Vanilli. Just different technology.
I am proud to say that i do not own any of this.
On another note Blurred Lines is possibly the worst song I've heard in a decade, it is a rape anthem that is seedy and has a horrid message. I cringe when I hear it. The fact it has been so popular says a lot about society I suppose and should be a bit disconcerting.
I rarely make digital purchases myself. If anything, I only order from iTunes every 6-12 months in total unless I get a gift card. I primarily invest into CDs and even just recently started investing into Vinyl.
Hopefully not repeating something already said, but there was a good article in the WSJ in December on the subject. While streaming is drawing customers from digital downloads, it is actually more profitable to artists, so don't worry Lady Gaga will eat well.
I do not think one is superior to the other. Sure there are sonic differences, but I don't think that in itself should pose as the primary difference. I've heard digital done extremely well, even in modern day recordings.To be honest, being brought up in the CD age, I can't see the fuss about Vinyls. I know about the superior sound quality, but the hassle of it, having to flip it over after 5 songs, having to check the needle, getting the speed right, etc. compared to CD's or digital music- I just don't think the positives outweigh the negatives. I also don't think that there is much of a perceived difference between 320kbs mp3 and Vinyls, certainly not on less expensive hardware. Then theres the price, the size, the lack or portability. I just don't get it.
Not saying that music on those Vinyls are bad, I mainly have music since 2000 but there are some old albums that will always be iconic.
Maybe thats why I'm not much interested in it. No connections to my past.However, It is a remnant of our past and it is one that perhaps could stay with us forever. There could be so many philosophical reasons that justify as to why it has grown popular.
Could be. Though I don't think everything will be digital, even in the future. We're not that far into progression to be at a point where everything is completely artificial. We are humans, we need tangibility. We will always need something to help retain our humanity.Maybe thats why I'm not much interested in it. No connections to my past.
I don't know what the digital generation will be like in 20 years time, what with everything being digital, they would have no physical media in their house.
Not nice
Could be. Though I don't think everything will be digital, even in the future. We're not that far into progression to be at a point where everything is completely artificial. We are humans, we need tangibility. We will always need something to help retain our humanity.![]()
I still don't like to stream music unless I'm at home.
For one, it really does chew a 2GB data plan pretty fast, so you need wifi.
Second, it can be slow if you have a bad connection.
Third, intrusive and obnoxious ads (although iTunes Radios ads aren't as bad)
Forth, it's a big hit on battery life.
For me at least, nothing beats on board music, but for many, streaming may be the way to go.
Just my little rant.![]()
Man, I still buy CDs. At 24, my friends make serious fun of me.
Unless your looking at something like a 64bit MP3, medium has absolutely nothing at all to do with production quality. The Vinyl sounds better thing is a myth. There are crappy Vinyl productions and crappy CD productions. Unless you dropped 5 grand on that turntable, the CD version of anything you try will sound better (assuming it was mastered at the same time by the same person).
I still buy CDs, because that's still the easiest way to buy lossless music.
And most CDs from Amazon come with additional pre-ripped 256k MP3s available via your Cloud Player (easily downloaded into iTunes).
My GF got on my case recently because I have a whole stack of CDs that still have the shrinkwrap on them.
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There's the rub. Digital allows the masters/remasters to be engineered with tricks (e.g. the "loudness wars") that effectively don't apply to vinyl, at least not to the same degree.
CD's aren't lossless. By their very nature, they are lossy.
CD's aren't lossless. By their very nature, they are lossy.