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[everlasting]

I love music and am very proud of my CD & vinyl music collection, a lot of vinyl I got from my parents cos they don't listen to them anymore (they just casually listen to the radio nowadays). I've never got into this idea of just paying to download music and having nothing to show for it, I've always had the mindset of "what if my PC dies or the internet connection fucks up during download?", I'd rather have a CD and then rip the songs onto my computer if I want and then onto an MP3 player or whatever. I love booklets with my albums, always have since I was a kid, I like reading the lyrics to songs and looking at photos. I often, when listening to albums in my room, lay down and look through the booklets and read through lyrics, production notes. Music is very important to me, everything about it. Most people just just want to listen to stuff casually on the radio or their Ipod on their way to work or whatever, that's fine.
ANyway...this is very off track of what this thread is about. Just thought I'd give my take.
Oh and as someone asked do you smell new cds / vinyls....not usually but if the booklet is glossy then yes - like Lifeblood. It's still gloosy and smells lovely

[Takk]

A CD is hardly physical anyway, it's just a download on a disc!

[Frozendiva]

A CD collects dust!

[The Gutless Wonder]

CD's have better sound quality than downloads though. Musicians themselves have said this, I'm not just saying that to be awkward or start a riot!

[Dean V]

Originally Posted by The Gutless Wonder

CD's have better sound quality than downloads though. Musicians themselves have said this

They'd be wrong though, it depends on the quality of the file burnt to the disk. If it's lossless/WAV etc like most CDs it'll be high, if it's WMA 128 or whatever it'll be lower.

[Dancing Kirby]

Did you see the quality of the booklets that came with the regular editions of the last two Manics albums, though? PFAYM's in particular was pathetic. The next one will probably come on toilet paper.

Vinyl is ok as a physical format for collectors but CD has become a waste of space - literally.

[centralscrutiniser]

Originally Posted by The Gutless Wonder

CD's have better sound quality than downloads though. Musicians themselves have said this, I'm not just saying that to be awkward or start a riot!

This is true - a downloaded MP3 cuts off the top and bottom end of the track for compression, so CDs have a better overall sound. I don't know quite how good a stereo you might need to show up the difference though.

[centralscrutiniser]

Originally Posted by Dean V

They'd be wrong though, it depends on the quality of the file burnt to the disk. If it's lossless/WAV etc like most CDs it'll be high, if it's WMA 128 or whatever it'll be lower.

Yea, if you just burn an MP3 to a disc it defeats that argument, but a proper manufactured CD or one created from lossless will sound better - as you say.

[The Gutless Wonder]

I need to stop listening to so much music via my computer actually. I stare at my CD collection and feel guilty. I shall dust it all of again very soon!

[Takk]

Not necessarily, depends on the download format. CDs are just digital audio files, not magic!

[Postcards of Nothingness]

No 18 in classic rock magazines albums of the year- the press really has been amazing for 'postcards'xx

That's pretty good, Classic Rock tend to know what they're on about

[Frozendiva]

Another excellent accomplishment for the band.

[Lydia]

Nice to see Nicky commenting on the important things after what happened yesterday

[centralscrutiniser]

Originally Posted by Takk

Not necessarily, depends on the download format. CDs are just digital audio files, not magic!

Yes but they're better quality than an MP3 download

[Nikolai]

I love my beautiful big library of CD goodness. Sometimes I inadvertently find myself gazing over at them - a lifetimes musical collecting and all of the abundant connected stories, memories and events connected to so many of those discs. Love it.

There was a period whereby I could only listen to my tunes on my Zeppelin iPod dock thingy but I still always bought the actual CDs and put them into my physical collection - even if I was only ever ripping them straight onto my pod soon after. I rip all of my faves in lossless so I can hear them as our Lord Beelzebub intended.