That's an interesting question. It certainly helps to solve the quality problem. My son is a musician and composer who has switched from CD to digital download so I completely understand that digital download is the way to go from a business perspective especially when Mom pays for the CD duplication.
Personally I would still prefer the real CD. Whenever I order CD's from Amazon very frequently there is the mp3 option usually at half the price. I still buy the real CD and not just because of the quality issue. A lot of it is laziness and having the discretionary income to pay more. If I download it I have to go thru the effort of finding a blank CD somewhere upstairs in my office closet and then stick it in the computer, label it with the marker that's also somewhere in the closet, find a jacket for it and so on. On the other hand all that may take less time than trying to get the CD packaging open. :-) Then there's the collection perspective. I have all my CDs in really nice shelving where I only have to look at the edge to figure out which CD I want. I haven't seen any home packaging that makes it easy or even possible to label the edges of the sleeves. Now that I'm actually thinking about it, this is a really big deal to me. I do have ripped CDs floating around the house; I have a stack of them right on the coffee table I'm sitting next to as I type this. Note that they are not in my nice shelving and I have no good way of organizing them. I should warn you that many of my friends and my kids say I'm not 'normal' when it comes to things like this. VBG. Tina On Aug 31, 2010, at 6:12 PM, Penny Ward Marcus wrote: > Would you feel the same if you could have wav file or lossless CD quality > download availability? It does take longer to download, but the quality of > sound is there, and if you were to make a CD from those files it would be > pretty much indistinguishable from a CD purchased in a store. > > I am actually just plain curious now. People seem to worry about not having > a physical CD, but it is cheaper to purchase the files than a prepared disk, > and then make your own CD backup AND disk for use. How does that affect > your thoughts? > > Thanks for all your responses! > Penny > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christina Barkan" <[email protected]> > To: "The Horn List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 4:47 PM > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] survey: digital download vs CD release > > >> >> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
