one thing not mentioned so far: hard disc failure!
a hard disc failure in your head might lead to some failure of your
external hard disc you use to store your music data!
from my personal experience: when i upgraded to tiger on my ibook i
had some trouble with photoshop which i thought back then resulted in
some missing os9 partition on my hd. stupid and impatient as i am i
had the idea to install this os9 part on my external 250 gd hd which
left me with a non-accessable disk!!! after searching for help in all
macuser forums i finally bought "data rescue" and "disk warrior" for
about 100 $ us each... disk warrior helped me recover the files and
now i have three quarters of the files with proper names like they
used to be an one quarter named like: M01215.mp3, M01216.mp3,
M01217.mp3... and whenever i have some spare time i spend it on
putting the proper names to the files... still about 1.500 files to
be checked... lucky enough i never sold the vinyls and cds - so in
the end i'll suceed. got me some 2nd hd for backup in the meantime...
you don't usually have those problems with vinyl!
regarding the fact that not every one's as stupid as i am (lucky
enough) this might be just a small aspect of the discussion.
one last off topic remark: it's moodymann on the 7th, akufen on the
8th and a m-nus night on the 22nd of september over here - just in
case you're planning some trip....
cheers
roman/berlin
Am 22.08.2006 um 20:43 schrieb Jason Brunton:
yeah, it may well be a generational thing- my gut feeling is that
vinyl will always have a "cool" factor that will appeal to people
that will help things tick along for a good while yet- for our
particualr music and where club gigs are concerned, I still haven't
used anything that comes close to the experience of two vinyl decks
and a mixer- in a situation like this I'm not particularly
interested in endless choice of tracks that MP3 playback systems
offer- I'm happy to ride the uncertaintly of having to play with
what you've got to hand and make the best out of what I've got and
also, for me, there IS a difference in sound quality between MP3,
CD and viny.
As for home listening there is no denying the attraction and
convinience of the ipod and computer based music- I spent ages
importing all of my my CD collection into I-tunes but my main
computer isn't in my living room so I can only access this music
through my ipod and scrolling through loads and loads and loads of
artists/albums to find what I'm looking for is a bit of a pain-
sometimes its just easier to bung an actual CD in the player and
let it go!
Very interested in everyones' opinions though and thanks very much
for taking the time to let me know what you all think
Jason
On 18 Aug 2006, at 09:03, Martin Dust wrote:
I can see where you are coming from Jason but I do buy a lot of
stuff from Beatport and Bleep mostly odd tracks from EPs and
Albums where I don't like the full thing and while it may not
appeal to heads I know teenagers who don't own a single piece of
Vinyl or a CD but do own more than one hard drive with their
collection on - I also buy stuff that you can't get on vinyl/cd -
DMZ for example. I buy the odd pop track off iTunes but if you
look at the charts for electronic music on iTunes you see that
they haven't changed for months - Born Slippy has been in the top
ten since they started - so that gives you a big clue about who
buys there...
As for the future, I think there's room for all formats and paying
a couple of quid for a wav is a better format than vinyl ;)
my 2 cents
m
