What Killed The CD?

[shoodBworkin]

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http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permali ... -killed-cd

[mojobone]

My comment would be that the physical CD isn't dead; it's still a format we need to negotiate because among those who prefer to maintain a physical inventory of their 'owned' music (I'll admit it's a shrinking demographic) it's still about as popular as vinyl. Also, an actual physical product release still goes a long way toward legitimizing an act's artistry, at least as long as your product doesn't look like you burned it on the old Windows machine in your mom's basement.

[HectorRContreras]

Very interesting Topic to ponder about, dear Shood.

I read the Article and the Comments.

Personally I have CDs of my Music Compositions. Although my Music Compositions are very much at iTube, and at YouTube, and at SoundCloud.
The CDs are in my drawer, they feel safe there. One never knows ...
Also, how convenient to send a CD to my Family and to some Friends at Christmas, for instance. A wee bit more elegant than to send them a Link !
And I design the cover of my CDs myself. I also designed CD covers for Hector.

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Hector used to listen to my Music in his Car, because I sent him CDs. Also when he was relaxing at his next door Swimming Pool !

Ok; so, so far, the CD is still very handy in these many ways.

But I admit that I never enter a Music Store to buy a CD.
I have much too much Music I can listen to on line. Yep ... [/color]

[elser]

Termites?

[themichaelscott]

As long as there is some form of tangible music I'm fine. I've had iPods mysteriously go blank and files corrupted too many times. I guess even a CD can scratch or deteriorate, but as a backup on a shelf I feel safer with that than a file.

What I miss most of all is the album. I've never been a fan of singles. The music industry likes a great song, I like a great band.

Michael

[Kolstad]

Hmm, the whole digital revolution is all about the convenience of gathering more and more information on smaller and smaller sizes of media, so I think size killed the CD. What used to be small and convenient is now big and bothersome. Personally, I don't care much about the media where the music is stored. I care about the music.

Objects do tend to carry a story trail with them, though. Like a CD, you got it in a physical location somewhere, talked to a person, took it home, stored it on a shelf, you took it and put it in a CD player, your car ect. There were some emotions and thoughts attached to those places, people and actions, which stores in your memory, so it becomes sentimental when you recall it.

Maybe that sentimentality is what we want sometimes, and maybe it adds value to the music as well.. it becomes "our" music that way. But it will be exciting to see how the new generations becomes attached to music, if they do..

[superflux]

Even if I can't consciously perceive it all the time, (and as I age, I'm sure I don't), I still want an uncompressed copy of the material. Even if I do rip it into iTunes and listen with earbuds most of the time, I still want the option of putting the CD in my stereo and hearing it through my Klipsches.

Also, some folks are just more tactile; they like tangible media, be it books, records (or CDs), etc.

[shoodBworkin]

"2013 was the recorded music industry’s 14th successive year of revenue decline. The prolonged death rattle of the CD continues to drag the global market down with it and things just got worse with the paid download entering its own tailspin. Streaming and Subscriptions are the great hope and are growing at unprecedented rates. But the $9.99 products are not enough on their own, affordable mass market products are needed too. Even with them global music revenues will still decline slightly for the next five years. Without them revenues will shrink at pace and scale . . . "

http://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/view/ ... casts.html

[HectorRContreras]

Hmmm, ... interesting.

[guscave]

Objects do tend to carry a story trail with them, though. Like a CD, you got it in a physical location somewhere, talked to a person, took it home, stored it on a shelf, you took it and put it in a CD player, your car ect. There were some emotions and thoughts attached to those places, people and actions, which stores in your memory, so it becomes sentimental when you recall it.

Maybe that sentimentality is what we want sometimes, and maybe it adds value to the music as well.. it becomes "our" music that way. But it will be exciting to see how the new generations becomes attached to music, if they do..

Agree!, Vinyl had an even greater affect. You would buy it, sit down and listen to an album from beginning to end. CD's brought the era of easily skipping around from one song to another.