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Are you an iTunes Music Store addict?
Authored by: Dave Andrews on May 09, '06 08:49:42PM

I have downloaded one free tune, paid for 3 video's, and purchased zero tunes. I still like the feel of a CD, the fact its material and not just a download. I buy CD's and RIP them, then put the CD in storage. If I am going to buy a whole CD then it doesnt cost anymore to get it on a pressed CD with all the artwork and often a little booklet. My life is not totally integrated in to Apple's digital hub yet! I have a CD player in the card, portable CD player in the workshop/garden, so the physical CD is not yet replacible. I have put my iPod and a set of speakers in the kitchen, but to be honest its not the digital dream I expected. I have to transfer tunes from my lounge Mac, my PowerBook machine and my work machine to this iPod, then my wife complains her iBook tunes are not on it (and makes me do the cooking as punishment). I have to use a ripping utility to share MY music between computers and iPods. I remember when all you did was pick up a CD and pop it in the player, no digital rights management etc.

ahh the days of vinyl, the hiss pop and crackle... yeah who am I kidding, roll on the digital revolution, just hurry up and reach my house



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Are you an iTunes Music Store addict?
Authored by: macgruder on May 09, '06 09:41:57PM

Bear in mind that it has always been a marketing ploy to suggest that CDs are somehow 'pure perfect' sound. Yeah, vinyl does have pops etc. but it is ironic that vinyl sounds so much better than a CD. A technology that was out of date almost 20 years ago.

Of course, we can have the best of both worlds - high quality sound but without pops. CD just ain't it, and mp3 certainly isn't. But the time is coming, when we can have bit rates higher than CD. Unfortunately, so many people have been conditioned to believe that CD is so pure, that it is the benchmark that the digital world is measured against - despite it being relatively poor quality. Sound after all is not defined by the absense of pops and crackles.



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Are you an iTunes Music Store addict?
Authored by: frgough on May 10, '06 08:45:03AM

Marketing ploy? Give me a break. It's not like people had never heard vinyl before when CDs first came out.

CDs became more popular because they DO sound better than vinyl or tape in the minds of nearly everyone. Otherwise, they'd just keep buying vinyl.



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Are you an iTunes Music Store addict?
Authored by: macgruder on May 10, '06 08:46:10PM

No they became more popular than vinyl because they are more convenient and last longer(although ironically this latter may not be true!). Skipping tracks, no flipping the record, etc. and far smaller.

Then at the time, the marketters managed to equate in peoples mind that lack of artifacts = sound quality. That's fair enough. Many people don't want/need very high quality, but today we can get the best of all worlds.

Also, quality is hardly judged by the majority is it? There's a certain computer manufacturer that only has a few percent of the marketplace, despite being the best. What was its name again :-)



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