I love looking at their spines. I love getting sick of one album after listening to it on repeat for weeks. I used to download from Apple Instead, I've been uploading all my CDs to my itunes to stream through my ipod occasionally.
I can't think of a single reason for anyone to buy a CD in I buy CDs so I can own them. I can lend them to people.
I can sell them. I can leave them to someone in my will. After I buy stuff, I want it to be mine. Seven years ago. I like owning stuff I bought and all, but I have a large box full of CDs that haven't been touched since I ripped them, some of them haven't been out of the box in years. Thinking of selling them off. Really, minus one or two "special packaging" things I'd want to keep, there's nothing in there that I need to have as a physical disc. All my music is always available on all my devices, and is backed up in hard copy in multiple locations.
Advantages of CD: Right now slightly higher fidelity, but you probably won't notice. Can be used in an actual CD player if you still have one. Provides a 'backup of last resort' should your electronic copies somehow get lost.
Doesnt arrive along with a 'free U2 album' that you didnt want and can't get rid of. Advantages of iTunes: You don't need to store the CD case. Don't need to spend 2 minutes ripping the CD. You might be given a free upgrade to a higher res version available in the future via the apple music streaming service but this is currently only a rumour, and may turn out to not be free. If you want to rip it yourself to FLAC or something for audio quality reasons, then get the CD and buy it from the source as close to the artist as you can, preferably directly from the artist.
Otherwise, buy downloads directly from the artist if possible or their preferred distribution platform, or their label if they're on one. They're more likely to get a bigger cut of the sale than if you bought a download from iTunes. The exception - if you're at a gig, buy the CD at the merch table. Making some CD sales at shows is very encouraging for musicians.
Or if they have downloads you can buy on-the-spot if such a thing happens - my gigging life ended before CDs were so thoroughly deprecated. I wanted to add - If they're burning discs on demand then skip it and get the downloads. If CDs already exist and it's a small enough artist or band, chances are that they paid for them themselves, and they're already made, and they probably have more of them than they know what to do with.
You might actually be doing them a favor by buying a disc. Page content loaded. Dec 20, PM in response to varjak paw In response to varjak paw. Dec 21, AM.
Jan 7, PM in response to benjaminp77 In response to benjaminp Jan 7, PM. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: benjaminp77 benjaminp I've spent quite a bit of money on iTunes, I like having the music immediately via download rather than waiting for a CD to arrive in the post.
However some people say the quality of iTunes is inferior to CD, as in if you burn an iTunes song to CD it will sound inferior to the quality of an official CD. Is this true? More Less. Reply I have this question too 19 I have this question too Me too 19 Me too. Helpful answers Drop Down menu. If I want the entire CD, I buy the physical disk. My need for instant gratification isn't so large that I can't wait for a CD to be delivered or I can get to a store. If I only want a track or two, then I'm much more inclined to purchase from a download store, though it depends on how badly I want the track.
Tracks on iTunes, and most other download services, are compressed, resulting in a loss of quality as compared with the original source. The quality cannot be restored when you burn the track out to CD; that quality, once removed, is gone forever.
Whether you can hear the difference will depend on your playback system and your ears. If and when the record companies get their heads out and allow download stores to offer CD-quality downloads with the ability to burn a CD MusicGiants, the only company that I know of that offers CD-quality downloads, is not allowed to enable burning to audio CD , then I'll probably buy all my content from the download stores.
If you take a "Modern" song, and try to put it in Vinyl, the moder equalization would make the needle jump out of the record. If the song you want was released in Vinyl AND the same mix was used for Vinyl, CD and digital download, you can feel free to get it in the media most convenient to you. If, on the other hand, there are different mixes dependeng on the media, go for Vinyl, you will not get the most acurate reproduction, and there may be noise, but at least, you will get a hell of a lot better dynamic range in your song.
But a record, ahhh Feel it. Smell it. The smell of library. The smell of history. The smell of many rounds of weed cleaned with licenses on the folds of an LP cover.
Watch the the filaments in the KT power tubes run their cheerful cherry orange. Ditty for the 12AX7s in the preamp. Dust on hot glass. Amaze yourself at the total lack of snap-crackle-pop, because you have a real turntable, not some made-in-china massmarket unit.
No, you're running something German, from the mid's. When vinyl was the only game, really. I'm going to say this very carefully, very deliberately: Fuck Fuck it long and hard, dry, with a very splintered phone pole. Fuck this fake digital modern world. But truly, nothing beats the sheet music in front of you, with your barely-able fingers poised over the ebonies and ivories. They only look to iTunes to come to this conclusion? When I buy a CD or Vinyl album the music is mine. I can make backup copies of it.
I can lend it to friends. When I "buy" a digital copy of the music I am subject the terms and conditions or Apple or Amazon or whomever I get it from. They dictate the terms of usage. In that sense I don't really own the music. It's more like a local rental of the songs. I "bought" a movie on Amazon a while ago. Percy Jackson or something. Watched it a couple of times with the kids.
No one has any interest in it anymore. So what can I do with it? Can I resell it? Can I give it to a relative who now has young kids? Can I leave it to my children?
Uh uh. The "sale" of that item to me was fictional. It was a perpetual license that I have to keep track of. If Amazon "loses" that somehow, I have to remember that I had it, I have to provide some form of proof tha.
I recall some time ago that Amazon removed books from the Kindle library that they deemed to be offensive for some reason. All well and good Even if Amazon gives you a credit for the book I don't feel it is their right to reach in to my library and remove something. I will determine if the book is offensive, not them.
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Follow Slashdot on LinkedIn. An anonymous reader quotes BGR: Sales from individual song downloads have unsurprisingly been falling with no end in sight, thanks to the convenience of streaming options like Spotify and Apple Music.
A new report, though, makes clear just how few people there are these days who will buy individual digital songs -- there are so few of them, in fact, that they were outnumbered in by people who went old-school and bought actual compact discs and vinyl records.
Last year? Meanwhile, that drop in sales has resulted in a lop-sided reality that harkens back to the pre-iTunes days. The RIAA reports that "virtually all the revenue growth" for came from streaming music platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Tidal, which last year collectively added 1 million new subscribers every single month, and now have a record number of more than 50 million subscribers.
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted. Full Abbreviated Hidden. More Login. Indie music, indie platforms. Score: 5 , Informative. I've been getting way more into indie music genres, and by far my most used purchasing platform is now Bandcamp. Any time I find a piece of music I want to buy, I always check Bandcamp first.
Share twitter facebook. Re: Score: 1. Bandcamp came along at just the right time. Independent musicians limped along on myspace for a few years until Facebook made things even worse. Bandcamp really did everything right with a DRM-free, artist-friendly business model that integrated Creative Commons licensing directly into the upload process.
It's entirely possible that it, like everything good, will eventually be slowly de. Re: Score: 3. It's about preservation Score: 5 , Insightful. Re: Score: 2.
What presentation? CDs are a bit of ugly plastic that take valuable real estate space both at the store and at your home. Remember the controversy of the "longbox"? Re: Score: 3 , Insightful. With rare exceptions my experience has been similar. Let's all have a good laugh at. Buy then digitize Score: 5 , Interesting. Parent Share twitter facebook. Same thing with a player piano. Re:It's about preservation Score: 5 , Insightful. So I apologize, but you're full of it. Artificial aging studies in the past established CDs with years had a high probability of having bit-rot, or have I dreamed that?
Listen to mp3 forever. What is the issue here? What are are you failing to comprehend? My only question about all that is "how high were you when you posted that? I thought you wanted to listen to music Ha ha, yeah, it's lossy compression, certainly.
Except when they don't anymore. For further information, look it up under "Apple deletes iTunes music", "Amazon deletes digital content on my Kindle", and so forth.
You will see plenty of examples of when this has happened before. Go ahead, I'll wait No surprise Score: 2. Re:No surprise Score: 5 , Funny. Most folks steam their music. Owning vs. Streaming Score: 2. When you own the physical copies, you can put the rips on your NAS and stream it to your heart's content without having to pay monthly fees.
Let's see them do that with my physical copies. And did I ment. Re:cheaper to spotify Score: 5 , Insightful. Re:cheaper to spotify Score: 4 , Interesting. I'm also older, so there's that. Old people don't spend as much on music. I've filled an Ikea Billy bookcase with CDs. To be accurate, two half height Billy bookcases. They are all ripped to mp3 and that's what I listen to.
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