I think there should be a law that there should be a man with a red flag walking in front of every streamer.
He presents no actual evidence that CDs are superior to allegedly inferior streamed music. Years ago I tested my own rips of CDs against the download from the record company, and found them to be bit identical. There is no reason to suppose a cd is of any better provenance than a download - think of all those iffy “best of” compilation albums, or “remasters” on labels you’ve never heard of. There is no reason to suppose an artist gets much from the sale of a cd; much goes on distribution, record company fees and so on. Right enough, the payout for a stream is tiny, but then again Amazon HD have 50 million subscribers, at £120 or whatever a year that is potentially a lot of money to distribute to artists and not people who make plastic cases. Paying per listen is inherently fairer, supports a wider variety of choice, and new possibilities of live concert streams are also starting to appear. CD is legacy technology, it wasn’t a very nice medium, you couldn’t even read the sleeves, let it go.
How is having the choice of dozens and dozens of versions of the Bach Matthew Passion “zero choice”?With streaming you pretty much get what you are given, with zero choice.
How is having the choice of dozens and dozens of versions of the Bach Matthew Passion “zero choice”?
Right enough, if you’re in some kind of collectory time-warp still trying to get Dark Side of the Moon to sound like it did back in the day, then you may fall victim to iffy remasters, but for the vast majority of decent recordings streaming from a decent supplier like Qobuz offers an almost overwhelming choice of extraordinary quality. Amazon is iffy because you have no guarantee of getting the stated resolution; they reserve the right to downgrade the stream and you also have to get it out of Windows unmolested. But Qobuz is pretty straight, and junk compilation albums are easy to filter out, just as “Best of ..” CDs were easy to avoid.
CDs are over, finished, end-of-life, have no future, a thing of the past, a distant memory. Sales have ceased.
Don’t sugarcoat it, tell us what you really think!CDs are over, finished, end-of-life, have no future, a thing of the past, a distant memory. Sales have ceased.
Vinyl isn’t a copy! It is a compromised approximation that is irretrievably degraded every time you play it.They'll be selling vinyl long after all other hard copy formats have gone
And as Roy Gandy puts it, a turntable is “a vibration-measuring machine.”Vinyl isn’t a copy! It is a compromised approximation that is irretrievably degraded every time you play it.
Streaming puts less plastic in the ocean......that's a big enough argument against all plastic media.
Vinyl isn’t a copy! It is a compromised approximation that is irretrievably degraded every time you play it.
CDs are over, finished, end-of-life, have no future, a thing of the past, a distant memory. Sales have ceased.