Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 But what will play my melted CD-Rs now?? nightscape94 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 That's what Crutchfield is for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 The exploding CD sounds like a demo for Zimmer's next score. Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melange 446 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Death of the Compact Disc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 The exploding CD sounds like a demo for Zimmer's next score.Maybe Zimmer will be key in reviving musique électronique.In the meantime, here's hoping Blu-Ray players don't spin that fast in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 http://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/hmv-and-xtra-vision-see-15-rise-in-combined-group-sales-1.2068384Physical media is starting to make a comeback over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Insane Irish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Stephen is my name. I the most wanted man on my island, except I'm not on my island, of course. More's the pity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Yeah, it's my island. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Ha HA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Was looking for Braveheart on Spotify the other week and that's what came up! Had to search through Horner's stuff to find the actual soundtrack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 What will you miss about CDs? Ah, nostalgia!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 49 minutes ago, Jay said: What will you miss about CDs? Nothing. I did miss vinyl though. Much better format from a collector's perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 You must be out of your mind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Why, Steef? I collected LPs for 20 years before collecting CDs for 25. Sound-wise I choose digital. And as a collector, LPs. CDs do nothing for me. A. A. Ron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Fragile and unwieldy format, and far too big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 If you say so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Who knew Ricard had a beard! Al kidding aside, vinyl lovers of the past used to record their newly purchased LPs on a tape machine because they wanted to protect the vinyl as much as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 5 hours ago, Ricard said: as a collector, LPs. Aesthetically, I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 8 hours ago, Ricard said: I did miss vinyl though. Much better format from a collector's perspective. I can understand that. LPs are big. They take up a lot of space on a shelf to store, more to display. As a collector, you need to be responsible and discriminating in what you collect and why. CDs are much smaller. It takes less discipline to collect CDs because once/if you rip them, you can put them in a shoebox in the closet or under the bed, never to think about again. It's much easier to hoard CDs, buying up complete discographies of anybody because there are no ramifications, aside from cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corellian2019 386 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 CDs, vinyl outsell digital downloads for the first time since 2011 From yesterday's Washington Post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,687 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Yet we keep hearing that CD pressing plants are closing due to declining sales. Which is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 I imagine people are opting to stream the music rather than purchase digital copies, which had their several years of trendiness. So as useless as CDs had supposedly become, digital downloads are now even more useless. It's ironic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 16 minutes ago, Richard Penna said: Yet we keep hearing that CD pressing plants are closing due to declining sales. Which is it? Perhaps--and this is purely off-the-cuff--those CD plants are "fat" that get trimmed, leaving fewer plants with more of the lion's share of producing the disks, allowing them to become more profitable than where there might have been a more varied distribution across a greater number of facilities. In 2011, I fully believed that LPs (not CDs necessarily) would achieve this kind of comeback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kühni 485 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 8 hours ago, Nick Parker said: Perhaps--and this is purely off-the-cuff--those CD plants are "fat" that get trimmed, leaving fewer plants with more of the lion's share of producing the disks, allowing them to become more profitable than where there might have been a more varied distribution across a greater number of facilities. In 2011, I fully believed that LPs (not CDs necessarily) would achieve this kind of comeback. I don’t think it’s a comeback. People aren’t buying downloads anymore. All streaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryant Burnette 654 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 At some point, I'd imagine people are going to be content merely to look at titles and not listen at all. Quicker that way, really. Unlucky Bastard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 What's the difference between downloading and streaming? It's all downloading from the internet through your router to your device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 1 hour ago, Bryant Burnette said: At some point, I'd imagine people are going to be content merely to look at titles and not listen at all. Quicker that way, really. Indeed, one day people will quit music, just like they did with smoking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 But with streaming the content is not saved to your hard drive in a way that you can rewatch it later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Holko, Bayesian and The Illustrious Jerry 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,526 Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 When will it become the new vinyl... again? Arpy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Notice how at the same time music is dying too. It's all connected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargo 297 Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Wait music is dying? What will we listen to when music is dead? bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Years and years ago I predicted vinyl would make a comeback, although what I didn't foresee is that cassette tapes would make a resurgence, too. I wonder if CDs would actually make a comeback, they might be stuck in the betwixt and between state of vinyl (large collector's item with artwork, cultural connotations, considered to have a very unique and quality sound, etc.) and tape (super-portable, really nostalgic in an analog setting, colors the sound, etc.) The Illustrious Jerry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayesian 1,363 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 We can see in the graph that the rate of decline was slowing from 2011 to 2017 – and then sharply accelerated in 2018. What was behind that, I wonder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 The increase of streaming services, the closing of US CD pressing plants, the rise of vinyl as a collectors edition medium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 The Rise of Vinyl "It's time for the CD to end." 1977 and The Illustrious Jerry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayesian 1,363 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 54 minutes ago, Jay said: The increase of streaming services, the closing of US CD pressing plants, the rise of vinyl as a collectors edition medium Well sure, but those have been the case for awhile, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 9 hours ago, Fargo said: Wait music is dying? What will we listen to when music is dead? Old music (before it was dead). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,687 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 One thing buying a CD give you over digital: collectibility/resale value. For 'regular' releases, a digital release gives you the music, and if it's lossless, there's nothing more you actually need. You can still have art direction and liner notes - it's just not printed on a bit of paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 The CD was the future. What happened to the future? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John 2,032 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 I feel physical media as a whole is starting to die out. It’s not exclusive to the music industry either. DVD and Blu-ray sales have been declining for a while now, with many people jumping on the digital/streaming bandwagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Ownership is theft! The rights of the copyright holders must be protected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 Quote 30 years of the music industry, visualised. - It’s not been an easy path for artists, publishers or record labels. Few industries have seen such sharp shifts in format and medium. - The ‘80s were the age of Vinyl and Cassettes before the CD took the crown and reigned as the dominant format for almost 20 years. - But the Internet boom of the late ‘90s brought file-sharing, piracy and a living nightmare for music execs and artists. - The infamous sharing service Napster was founded in 1999. Coincidentally the same year the US music industry peaked. - After that, it was a lot of doom and gloom. The download market helped to stop the ship from sinking completely, but the industry had still halved in roughly a decade. - But now streaming is taking off in a big way and the music industry is, at last, back to growth. Here comes the sun ☀️, and it’s streaming in. - Data from the RIAA. https://www.instagram.com/p/BxIHYgrhnxC/ Interesting that DOWNLOADS died off WAY quicker than CDs did, and that it's STREAMING that is now the CLEAR winner, NOT Downloads. And it's funny that Ringtone sales made a big enough impact for a while to be charted! Bayesian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayesian 1,363 Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 “Vinyl, the comeback king.” I dunno, that barely widening sliver of a black line doesn’t really seem to merit such a claim (but that’s just me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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