Posted on 01/22/2007 8:59:55 PM PST by zarf
But what quality MP3?
128 kbps? or higher? Standard or variaiable-bitrate?
Gotta be honest, 256 sounds pretty darn good.
Not any more. You can get full CD quality if you want. You just have to look for it. Furthermore, there is software that now helps out your MP3 player. I have one, and I love it. However, it does take time and patience.
Artists never have control of their destinies. Their star is hitched to a wagon that is never going fast enough. They will always complain even if they are successful beyond the wildest dreams of avarice. In fact, the very rich ones (Metallica & U2) will do whatever ensures them even more wealth. But there was once a time when they played their songs on a couch in a rotten old living room with friends all around... never again.
Curious comment. What do you mean?
Record labels are imploding, thank God. Justice for serving up nothing less than a music holocaust for the past 25 years.
Or they're playing them on a crappy portable device of some sort.
"They still do. You just don't hear about it, unless you happen to be in the rotten old living room at the time."
My God, you're less cynical than I am!
Left-wing vehement anti-American bigots started taking over the music business back in the sixties. And by the end of the 1990s they pwned it.
Well, I've been in a few of those rotten old living rooms listening to some fantastic music. Hearing good music like that tends to make you less of a cynic. But I did always have a reminder of just how far things had gone.
Most of the time I was standing next to some pink-o commie maggot whose trying to figure out if this is someone they need to destroy, or a "fellow traveller" they could promote. I remember a guy, a Russian immigrant who freely admitted that he had been in the Soviet military. He even had a red banner with a gold embroidered Lenin, complete with hammer and sickle.
The guy was proud of it and almost out in the open about what he was doing. That was in one of the biggest locations in the country where independent music talent gathered.
Right after they stop pressing 45s, and 78 lps!
They are just trying to milk the golden goose outta the last few eggs left for them.
If they put out real talent, who would buy their trash? The sac industry needs a Simon to slap them around!!
I think all digital no matter how high tech all have a poorer quality than what was used in the past, don`t know why, but I have heard the difference many times. I have a record player and stereo built in the 1970`s and would not believe the quality of sound that thing produces when I play a record, it just blows people away everytime.
I think getting rid of or pushing aside records, making it harder to buy records was a huge mistake of the record industry (which is now the digital industry). Man, when I was a kid, there was nothing greater than buying a new album and having that big album sleeve, album art, especially the ones that came with all these extras inside like stickers and posters. Then you played that shiny new black disc and not only heard it but could see the music in the grooves. Today all you get is an effin` plastic disc that hides in a machine, if that. Now you don`t even get the disc, you get it downloaded
...on the train...
I doubt it. I'm against all the DRM garbage. See my tagline -- Sony's rootkit got them on my Permanent Boycott list, and they didn't get a few hundred dollars in a recent camera purchase. (My main machine at home is now a Linux box, lacking all Vista's DRM.)
I don't share my MP3s with others, and all my MP3s are either from my purchased CDs or freebie downloads from the performers (Holst's "The Planets" and Stravinsky's "Petrushka").
I think CDs are a bit overpriced, else my collection would be quite a bit larger, but they've simply raised the threshold at which I proceed with a purchase, and reduced the frequency -- my last two purchases were made last March (and with my eclectic taste in music, these were two CDs of Persian music, not the kind of stuff you're likely to find shared anyway).
If their prices dropped, the amount of money I spend on music CDs would very likely increase because the "ouch" factor of each purchase would go down. (And the budget would allow for same -- something else entertainment-related would go unpurchased instead.)
Tell me about it, it`s beyond the beyond in pathetic today. I saw that idiot Justin Timberlake the other day at my Aunts house, I never saw his act before and my niece was playing one of his videos and I couldn`t believe it. This putz literally does an exact imitation of Michael Jacksons act, the dancing, the hats, he even sings like him! What the hell is that? This Timberlake is the best the industry can come up with today? The one they keep promoting today above all else? Out of billions of people in this world, out of what must be multi-millions of musicians covering the entire planet, the record industry means to tell me this sissy Timberlake is the greatest they can get??? Say WHAT?
LOL, you're so right.
"Well, I've been in a few of those rotten old living rooms listening to some fantastic music."
I have too and I'll never forget it. For me it was mostly an apolitical youthful thing. Guitars coming out and just the sheer enjoyment of the moment.
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