With ipod and itunes, I have lost my feel for music.....

hmmm I do agree with the 1st poster. I myself though dont buy songs from iTunes. I never have and prolly never will. I like owning the phisical case and having that. Usually when I buy a new CD, I listen to it in the car and at home for a week or or two none stop untill i know the whole thing inside out. I dont like the limitions of downloading from itunes and certain users and burns. Not that I ever burn my cd's to give em to others or share my music or anything to be honest but I just dont like that idea one bit.

I use iTunes as a music search engine. I found sounds from movies I might have heard and then listen to that one artist, then find their album and sample and think "wow, i like their other stuff too" and then I go ahead and buy the CD.
 
Well, I love buying the actual CD and listening to it in a CD player. But then I import it to iTunes and burn a copy so I can play that, and put the MP3s on my iPod.

Even before iPod, I burned a copy - don't scratch those originals!
 
Marital Bliss

This is funny cuz its what my wife and I debate a lot.

She wants the CD. She wants the album art, especially the unique ones. She wants to play the CD when she wants to. Part of this is that she doesn't want to use new technology......like CD's weren't at some point either...

Anyway, the reality is that some people still listen to 8 track and LP, but bottom line, having your whole music library in one small device, needs no further comment....:cool:
 
calebjohnston said:
I'm half and half with the OP. I buy all my CD's old-school, I don't use the music store. But, I'm glad I have my ipod so I can listen to it where I don't/can't have my iBook.
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I agree. I think I listen to music even more now than before. And I'm a 38 year old former lead singer and avid music freak.
 
dotdotdot said:
Well, I love buying the actual CD and listening to it in a CD player. But then I import it to iTunes and burn a copy so I can play that, and put the MP3s on my iPod.

Even before iPod, I burned a copy - don't scratch those originals!
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exactly, once I own the CD. i copy it on over to iTunes so i dont have to swap out the cd from my car, to home stereo to my computer etc.
 
CD iPod Computer

I have made the decision, I am going back to buying my albums and using a CD player.
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Thats just what I think, and I'm sure others feel differently.
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I can't say I feel the same! I love iTunes as a music library and store. There is a trade off - you loose the excitement of finding a rare CD - and the anticipation of a delivered CD, but gain the instant gratification of downloading and owning (although some would say we don't own the music...) it in a couple of minutes.

I've been burning more and more to a CD for convenience in the car. I have my ipod in the car - but most of my driving is on the highway, and I hate to fool with the ipod - or cell.

I still enjoy going to CD stores and poking around. Sometimes I'll buy something there. In fact, the only down side of iTunes for me is the guilt that I'm no longer supporting a local record shop. I never enjoyed going to mega corporate stores- so I've been a small source of revenue for some of the local small shops. Hope it don't hurt too much.
(quick anecdote on local record shops, I got to know the owner of one down the street, he was a roadie for every metal band ever. Had photos in the shop of him with crazy haired drunken rock stars. Great guy. His store closed a year ago. )
 
I never really got into music until portable mp3 players came about. Even then, I didn't buy much music until the iTunes music store came out. Too many times I had purchased a whole album for one song. What a waste. While I hear what the OP is saying, I have had the complete opposite experience. I believe the arrival of iTunes (or other media players) and mp3 players have allowed me to enjoy music where as before it was just a bit more of a hassle than it was worth.
 
Unfortunately, we have no local record shops. All we have is Borders and Walmart. Both are terrible for their own reasons. Borders runs about 6 dollars higher than a CD should cost you, and Walmart is.... well, Walmart.
 
The album art isn't very important to me, in fact I got rid of the cases on all of my CDs back when I still carried around a CD player. I hated having to decide what CDs I would carry with me and when I got my first Mp3 Player in 2001 (Not an iPod, in fact my first two Mp3 Players were not iPods) I was very happy, but still I was not able to carry all of my music with me. My second Mp3 Player held more music but not 40gigs. I was very excited when I purchased my 40gig iPod.

Now all of my music is on the computer in digital format, I love being able to carry my entire 20gigs of music with me, and knowing that I have room for more. The battery life on the iPod beats the battery life of any other mp3 player or CD player that I have ever owned.

So I guess each to their own, I feel the digital media is the best. Because of the iTunes Music Store, groups have been able to get their names out without having to produce an album. Because of the iPod, people all around the world have begun to enjoy music and take that music with them. Because of the iPod people have been able to take blogs and podcast them to listeners all around the world. the iPod and the digital world gives everyone the chance to share their thoughts and work with millions of other people. Apple put the fuel in the fire when they came out with the iPod.
 
I think I've started to listening to more types of music because of my iPod and iTunes, but I have to admit, it's REALLY hard to listen to a full song.
 
I was just thinking about this earlier today...

I don't own/buy CDs at all anymore, and I definitely don't miss the clutter aspect of having all those cases around, CDs being left out and getting all dusty, having to constantly change them, etc.

I love having just my iPod hooked up to a Bose radio... takes up very little space and easy to deal with.

However, I've discovered I have developed one problem when it comes to this set-up...

I'm addicted to playlists!! I probably have 30 or so on my iPod at any given time, I'm constantly making new ones, and I rarely listen to albums anymore.... which is crummy because I've always been a very big believer in the importance of a complete, original studio album, and the fact that good albums have a certain flow and should be enjoyed from beginning to end.

Of course, since the birth of the CD and the death of vinyl, the A-side/B-side concept, which used to be quite critical for most albums, is also dead now.

Anyway, I have this sense of guilt for not listening to albums often enough, but I just enjoy having the suspense element of a good 2- 3-hour playlist. I am a stickler for making sure all my lists contain a good, cohesive mix of one genre or time period, but I know it's still not the same as an album.

So, in short, I have mixed feelings but ultimately prefer the iPod over CDs and will never go back to the latter.

ND
 
i take it both ways. I definitely feel less personally attached to the music on my iPod. When you have one (at least in my case) there is a feel of wanting to 'load up' the iPod, if you will. As my library has gotten bigger and deeper in musical taste and style it has had pros and cons. I have yes increased my tastes, but now i have so much music i start to forget what i had...at the same time it is so nice to have everything right at my finger tips.

There is definitely somethign different and "genuine" about listening to music on older formats like vinyl, cds, (cassettes, eh :p ) that you just don't get from any digital music player. Something about having a physical thing of what are you listening to still is a neat feeling, and no burning the disk isn't the same.

That being said, i still love my iPod to death, it's amazing and is worth the trade off of a different experience for the ease of use and storage, which i think is the main reason people use and buy mp3 players in the first place.
 
MacNut said:
I still buy CD's in fact Im yet to purchase from iTunes, But I always use my iPod. The ability to have a whole library of music at your fingertips is what I've dreamed for my whole life. I love to listen to full albums but the downside is its hard to listen to some like "Dark Side" or "The Wall" cause the track breaks ruin the experience that you get from the actual LP.
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You can specify the track break time to be no time at all if I'm not mistaken...

I still buy the physical CD if I really enjoy the album.
 
Track break is the elephant in the room with regards to iTunes + iPod.

I recently listened to some music on a PSP and was like "woa! no track breaks!"... it can't be THAT hard for Apple to sort out so I can listen to an album seamlessly. Maybe that's why very few iTunes users (it would seem) listen to entire albums. Perhaps Apple is trying to FORCE us into shuffling!!

The only CDs I will buy now are by Radiohead. I have amassed about 100 CDs over 3 or 4 years between... 1998 and 2002. Then I got a broadband connection.... anyhoo, I do use the music store, I don't like it as much as CDs (purely a tactile thing) but I do love having my music organised and taking my laptop to a friends and being able to share wirelessly!
 
Vinyl

I havn't bought a CD since the 90's I think.

But, I love buying Vinyl.

I got my turntable/s hooked up to the mac, and I go back and forth between pure analog, and pure digital. I love that contrast.

I love the sound of vinyl too, with old reggae and jazz LP's.

But CD's.....I wish they would just go away....
 
whw5 said:
Unfortunately, we have no local record shops. All we have is Borders and Walmart. Both are terrible for their own reasons. Borders runs about 6 dollars higher than a CD should cost you, and Walmart is.... well, Walmart.
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How can than there be no record shops in Atlanta? That's a big city....
 
quigleybc said:
How can than there be no record shops in Atlanta? That's a big city....
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Well strictly speaking, I live in Marietta. All we have are strip malls there
 
I don't get why people buy so much music online. I never have, and properly never will. The quality just isn't good enough. Why pay money for an inferior quality, when buying a CD isn't that much more expensive, and you get a better sound quality.

When it comes to vinyl it's the same thing. People like vinyl cause it has a better sound quality than CD's. No information has been lost when converting to the digital format.

So I totally get where you come from, but I don't feel the same attachment to the format it self. For me it all comes down to quality.

If you want mp3's, then buy a CD and compress the music.
 
quigleybc said:
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But, I love buying Vinyl.

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Well said. I buy about half my music on vinyl (mostly small market altrock bands) and the balance on CD. I have yet to purchase any music from itunes. Part of it is that I'm obsessive about having the whole album, art and all, and that rest is that I find there is something about going through the trouble of putting on an LP or even getting out a CD that is a necessary precursor to actual experience of listening to it. (Is that foreplay for audio junkies:rolleyes: )

That said I still have most of my CDs and LP ripped over to itunes for the times that I just want background din and I regularly use itunes for downloading podcasts to 'discover' new bands.
 
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