Another Nail in the CD Coffin?

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20080922/TEC.Music.on.Memory.Cards/

In a nutshell:
Music sold on memory cards eventually taking the place of cd's.

That's all I need. Music on tiny little memory cards that are easily lost (or if you have small children, carried away and hidden, or even worse, swallowed).

I'll stick with CDs, thanks.

Maybe but the sales guy is wrong, a new format will not make people buy music in any format if they can download for free. People would go into music stores and actually buy cds if they lower the price and have a better selection of music to choose from, do what Journey did, sell a dvd or maybe another bonus disc and keep it reasonably priced and people will go back to buying cds, not in large unrealistic numbers that took place during the 90's but they will be able to move units, 449 million cds sold is still a respectable number for a format that is suppose to be on its deathbed, people are hungrier for music now than at anytime in music history, but record company executives have to use some imagination and business smarts, I applaud them for exploring technology but they also need to realize their is an untapped music market for a product that already exisit.

Bootleggers will go crazy with this.

I don't even have anything that would play these damn, stupid memory cards. Why the hell would I play it on a cell phone anyway? Until cells come with subwoofers, I'll stick with a stereo.

I want cds.

scottmitchell74 wrote:

I want cds.

I want something BETTER than CDs. Either something with 24bit depth or...vinyl!

This is for the "ringtone music" crowd...mass-marketed, energy-drink sponsored "artists"...this will not replace CD's for genres like Metal & Indie Rock...

Bring back cassettes!

Schbopo wrote:

Bring back cassettes!

Why?

detuned wrote:

scottmitchell74 wrote:

I want cds.

I want something BETTER than CDs. !:

Yeah! Too bad DVD Audio never took off!!!! Then we could listen to a Rick RUbin produced CD with out clipping!!!!!!! Then again, he might clip that format too!!!!

Why doesn't someone create a BluRay audio format? Pleanty of disc space, could be lossless 48 bit audio!!!!

Schbopo wrote:

Bring back cassettes!

Schbopo, how bout bringing back the 8 track?

thejokeriv wrote:

Schbopo wrote:

Bring back cassettes!

Schbopo, how bout bringing back the 8 track?

How about bringing back reel to reel?

detuned wrote:

Why?

Cuz I liked em.

Schbopo wrote:

detuned wrote:

Why?

Cuz I liked em.

Everybody knows that manufactured cassettes used to suck. I would buy the vinyl and burn my own tape from it because I could run the signal through an EQ first.

There were a few exceptions but generally, cassettes from the record companies sounded like crap.

manny wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Schbopo wrote:

Bring back cassettes!

Schbopo, how bout bringing back the 8 track?

How about bringing back reel to reel?

How about he stop pretending he's older than he is? Kind of silly.

manny wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Schbopo wrote:

Bring back cassettes!

Schbopo, how bout bringing back the 8 track?

How about bringing back reel to reel?

Actually, I'd be all for that! From an audio geek standpoint it's even better than vinyl.

CDs will go away, but never completely. Vinyl and CDs will remain for many, many years. But labels and bands will try new things. Some have already tried selling albums on thumb-plugs, which I've found hilarious because they priced them at around $40! Haha. A for thinking outside the box; F for being a stupid ass about it.

But eventually something will come along and change how everything operates. I envision music stores going away in place of music portals, little machines you walk up to, hook your MP3 player into, and download new albums. I know they have similar things now, but they're not universal enough, covering all brands of MP3 player.

Imagine being able to register your collection somewhere for a fee, some place that acts as a global music database. Pay them an annual fee, more like insurance, and if you someone lose your music collection—hard drive failure, operator error, fire, whatever—you can download everything again for "free" (outside of the annual fee). That would put the CD business in ruin.

Eyesore wrote:

How about he stop pretending he's older than he is? Kind of silly.

They had cassettes when I was younger. I liked them. And I have said many times I'm not actually 18.

Schbopo wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

How about he stop pretending he's older than he is? Kind of silly.

They had cassettes when I was younger. I liked them. And I have said many times I'm not actually 18.

Then how old are you?

I think manufactured cassettes pretty much went out the window around 1994 or so.

So even if Schbopo is really 15, he'd have been in diapers then.

I suppose it's possible he heard cassettes from someone else's collection...

He's 12. He'll tell you 15, but he's 12.

spectrefate wrote:

He's 12. He'll tell you 15, but he's 12.

Then if he's ever actually heard a manufactured cassette, it had to be from someone else's collection because I'm positive cassettes died long before I took my current job.

spectrefate wrote:

He's 12. He'll tell you 15, but he's 12.

And I do have quite a few cassette tapes. Mostly of soundtracks to movies and Sesame Street stuff from back in the day.

Schbopo wrote:

spectrefate wrote:

He's 12. He'll tell you 15, but he's 12.

And I do have quite a few cassette tapes. Mostly of soundtracks to movies and Sesame Street stuff from back in the day.

And apparently showtunes.