CD Collections.... I'VE HAD IT!!!!!!!!!

yes things do change alot but i do think the cd format will be with us a long time to come even with the release of the SACD .the cd format has been around going on 25 years and LPs much longer which you can still get

 

The thing with downloading is people can get what they want quicker. There's alot of stuff I want which is only available on US import and it will take 2 - 4 weeks to get to me. I really cant wait that long. And with hard drive space increasing and more people using computers somewhere in the future a legal download service will be introduced with a monthly fee and you will be able to get all the music you like in any format (e.g. MP3, AAC, MPC, and possibly ISO images of the CD}. The question is how long will the CD be around for. It may be less than you think.

 

why would anyone buy cd when there's P2P

 

hummm ,Liner notes,Sound Quaity is better ,and i can afford them,to name a few reasons

Plus most the stuff i listen to you are not going to fine on a p2p network

 

If there was only a service where you could download CD images or WAV files. That would be great

 

What are you talking about, some people share there music from the cd. They rip the cd and put it into the computer and people like me download it. How can it be better quilty if it's from the same cd.

 

Well most of the songs that i downloaded are real.
Is just hard to find it.

 

ha, your whole take is sad. yes they can be released in flac and other lossless formats, but still couldnt equall to the actual pressing

do yourself a favor and purchase the actual albums/records and see for yourself how the music should sound.

and oh yah, uhh 'support?'

 

So your trying to tell me ripping cd to computer lose quilty?????? That doesn't make sence. You can copy dvds and rip it to computer without loseing quilty.

let's just say that i download music from someone that ripped from a cd. How can you lose quilty.

If there's no peer to peer i would still not buy cds. I will just borrow from a friend and copy. =)

 

@dellsuck

Go read through the Audio forums. MP3 and most other formats are compressed which means the quality isn't the same as the actual CD. It does make sense. If you want the same quality as the CD itself you have to rip to .WAV but the filesizes are very big so thats why people choose formats like MP3, AAC(MP4), Flac etc. This isnt the place to ask about different qualities.

The same with DVD's. A DVD disc is several Gigabytes in size. You can compress it so it's about 700 megabytes in size. And quality is lost. There are loads of DVD forums on this site. I suggest you visit them like the Audio forums to understand better.

Look what I said above.

Wow who cares. Do that. But I can tell you that buying the actual album from the shop is better than downloading it quality wise but this thread is about people being annoyed about albums they already own getting re-released. You say you don't buy CD's then why are you even here. You can't contribute anything so get out.

 

yeah seeya dellsucks, you just dont get it huh.
time to get back on topic

 

@ aabbccdd

1) Do you buy used cd's?
2) If an album you buy has bonus tracks on the european or japanese release but not on the american one do you still buy the american one or do you buy the european/japenese version

 

dead on Lethal AND weazel...id hate being the guys friend, sure as hell woudlnt let him bum off me...lol i mean im all up for trading an album or two with buddys, some rare trades. but this guys way off

haa

 

I don't buy cd's for shit! I can't even remeber the last time I bought a cd, most of my stuff comes on vinyl and vinyl has better remixes than on cd, but if I want a certain track...screw it, im downloading.

 

Where can you get a song for 30cent?

 

@dellsuck

Seriously get out of this thread. You obviously have never bought a music album in your life and by the sounds of it you are a complete cheap skate. If you really cant afford to buy music then get a blank cassette tape and record off the radio.