I agree with Howard's answers. I will add that the sound quality of a digital download is not as good as a CD. When I play the exact same recording on my iPod and then listen to the CD it is instantly obvious that the original CD is significantly better for many types of music. Also I use the highest quality setting when ripping my CD's to my iPod.
Additionally, I think that it is more dangerous to search for music on the iPod when driving than simply popping in a CD. Yes I know that one shouldn't do either when driving and I wait for a traffic light but there's never enough time to search through my iPod or iPhone before the light changes. I also know that you can make CD's of downloaded music but I bet not that many people do that and then you still have the sound quality issue. Tina On Aug 31, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Howard Sanner wrote: > Quoting [email protected]: > >> >> 1. How do you feel about the need for a physical CD? > > This may well be a generational thing. I personally would want a CD. > People who don't have gray hair, don't remember the Kennedy > assassination, and don't think first of a barge on the Potomac where > music was played during the summer when they hear the word "Watergate" > would think differently, I suspect. > > >> 2. How important to you is the the availability of a physical CD? > > See above. > > >> 3. Do you prefer to simply download the tracks and works you are most >> interested in, and leave the rest? > > No. > > >> 4. Does the physical CD and packaging make a huge difference to you in >> whether you would listen to the music? > > No. Rarely does the material accompanying a CD contain the information > I'm really interested in, anyway: Personnel performing, equipment used > to make the recording, when & where recorded, etc. I can do without > disquisitions on Beethoven's personality and the like, and never pay > attention to the pretty pictures on the front. > > Howard Sanner > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/tina.barkan%40mac.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
