i agree with dan that super hi-def files will eventually be fed into our brains like air and water. but i don't weep for the world's weirdo audiophiles now, and i won't weep for them then. normal people always have, and always will, choose convenience over fidelity. this explains 8-track tapes and the walkman and the ipod and pretty much every other form of dominant listening formats ever. and getting music is in fact getting more convenient and easy every day. i cheer for this.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― just m@tt he1g3s0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Merge had the best thing, sell vinyl and include a CD-r. Even better, sell vinyl and include a code for DL or something. A lot of my friend's labels are talking about doing limited edition vinyl and download only.
― dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
I agree that it will be digital-only sooner rather than later
the two things I worry about are -- 1) future format incompatibility2) hard drive crashes
I mean, I back my shit up, but still.
― dmr (dmr), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― just m@tt he1g3s0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
There is a debate that will rage regarding whether you want to have all the files yourself, or have them streamed. Being in various digital media industries, it's something that comes up. I can see a point where my entire music collection isn't even in my house, it's on several servers owned by some huge company who can afford both the security and redundancy to have my media on their hard-drives in some fire-proof, weather-proof building somewhere. Think about it, I already do it with my email. The chances of Yahoo losing my email are probably a lot less then losing it myself when my harddrive fails.
This all depends on bandwidth, of course. Untill it's good enough, the benefit of having the media in your house is the ability to use it when you want and not wait for it.
― dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
How does the digital sell for them at shows?
― Saxby D. Elder (Saxby D. Elder), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― just m@tt he1g3s0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― dan selzer (dan selzer), Thursday, 22 February 2007 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link
I know a certain artist on a certain very famous label that was the largest single distributor of their records, selling 1200 of them for the famous label in question. This particular artist was buying them for $8 each too, so the label was making a huge profit!
I find that very depressing too...
Is anyone still going to be reading this? (Is this thing on?) Is there a way to go "nu" on this thread?
― Saxby D. Elder (Saxby D. Elder), Thursday, 22 February 2007 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 22 February 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― dan selzer (dan selzer), Thursday, 22 February 2007 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― esoj@w3rk (esoj@w3rk), Thursday, 22 February 2007 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Saxby D. Elder (Saxby D. Elder), Thursday, 22 February 2007 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 22 February 2007 03:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― dan selzer (dan selzer), Thursday, 22 February 2007 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link