Another Nail in the CD Coffin?

Why can't we have this kind of united front toward TheGooch? I actually like this Schobopo kid.

I have a full 8 track system that I think is the bomb, the only cassettes I have for it are...Gary Puckett and the union gaps--greatest hits, Rolling Stones--beggers banquet, and Tommy James and the shondelles--best of.

I dont know much about the sound quality of those older medias, but I think 8 track sounds pretty good.

Fat Freddy wrote:

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).

Exactly my thoughts.

tohostudios wrote:

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.

Again, same here.

I will resist this microchip music as long as they make cd's.

I don't think CD's will ever go away totally either...for the simple fact that A- Underground genres will rebel against anything else and B- your average person can't hear the difference between a CD and DVD-Audio or SACD (which is one big reason those formats never took off). Your severe audiophiles may try and latch on, but for most people (the kind of people corporate radio and MTV market to), they can't tell the difference between a CD and a 96kb MP3 or a radio broadcast...they want what's easiest for them.

Cassettes killed vynil for portability, CD's killed cassettes for durability over years of play & sound. These were two events your average consumer could get behind quite easily. MP3's haven't killed it, just slowed it down...again, because it was easy. I do believe that, if labels kept things closer to cost, (like not charging $19.99 for a CD it cost them $4 to make), CD's could pick up a little again. But I see this memory card format going the way of the mini-disc...nowhere.

Even vynil and cassettes still exist for underground genres. Nothing is going to kill CD's...especially in underground Metal...

CD's are the ManOwaR of music formats!!!!!

Rex wrote:

CD's are the ManOwaR of music formats!!!!!

So,you're saying CD's are merry?

thrasher73 wrote:

Rex wrote:

CD's are the ManOwaR of music formats!!!!!

So,you're saying CD's are merry?

I've yet to buy a CD with a fur covered slipcase.

They are strong and cannot be killed by the dragon!

Stender wrote:

I have a full 8 track system that I think is the bomb, the only cassettes I have for it are...Gary Puckett and the union gaps--greatest hits, Rolling Stones--beggers banquet, and Tommy James and the shondelles--best of.

I dont know much about the sound quality of those older medias, but I think 8 track sounds pretty good.

8-tracks sucked in every way possible. They sounded bad, they faded out in the middle of songs to switch tracks, the artwork sucked, etc. etc.

ultmetal wrote:

Stender wrote:

I have a full 8 track system that I think is the bomb, the only cassettes I have for it are...Gary Puckett and the union gaps--greatest hits, Rolling Stones--beggers banquet, and Tommy James and the shondelles--best of.

I dont know much about the sound quality of those older medias, but I think 8 track sounds pretty good.

8-tracks sucked in every way possible. They sounded bad, they faded out in the middle of songs to switch tracks, the artwork sucked, etc. etc.

+1

I hated 8-tracks...

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

ultmetal wrote:

Stender wrote:

I have a full 8 track system that I think is the bomb, the only cassettes I have for it are...Gary Puckett and the union gaps--greatest hits, Rolling Stones--beggers banquet, and Tommy James and the shondelles--best of.

I dont know much about the sound quality of those older medias, but I think 8 track sounds pretty good.

8-tracks sucked in every way possible. They sounded bad, they faded out in the middle of songs to switch tracks, the artwork sucked, etc. etc.

+1

I hated 8-tracks...

+10
I hate 8- tracks, the worst thing to have happened to music til MTV came along.

Makes cd's cheaper

EvyMetal wrote:

Makes cd's cheaper

That's part of what I was getting at...if CD's were $7.99 for a single and $11.99 for a double or special edition, I think they'd be selling better...not like in the 90's, but better than they are now...

tohostudios wrote:

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.

Indeed they did, and I hated cassettes generally, for that exact reason.

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But I see this memory card format going the way of the mini-disc...nowhere.

What happened to that format? I remember seeing them a long time ago then poof they were gone. Did they sound as good as normal cd's?

troublezone wrote:

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But I see this memory card format going the way of the mini-disc...nowhere.

What happened to that format? I remember seeing them a long time ago then poof they were gone. Did they sound as good as normal cd's?

I'm sure they sounded fine...but they weren't practical and you had to buy a whole new format of player when CD was booming like crazy...

troublezone wrote:

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But I see this memory card format going the way of the mini-disc...nowhere.

What happened to that format? I remember seeing them a long time ago then poof they were gone. Did they sound as good as normal cd's?

No, they compressed frequencies to save disc space, similar to the way MP3's work...but they sounded worse than that.

Does anybody remember the short lived "Digital Compact Cassette" (or "DCC") that appeared briefly in the early 90s? The idea was they were similar to plain ol' cassettes but the tape was of higher quality, therefore the sound quality was supposedly equal to that of CDs. You had to buy a new player, of course, but you could use your old cassettes in a DCC player and it would supposedly make your old tapes sound better too.

I was working in the electronics department of a K-Mart when they rolled those things out.... we had a huge display of the players and a bunch of the tapes (I remember Kiss' REVENGE was one of the titles available) but to the best of my knowledge we never sold a single one of 'em...players OR tapes... I came in to work one day after a month or so and the entire display had mysteriously disappeared overnight... I said "Well, so much for that"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette

Yup, that's them.

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The DCC was discontinued after October 1996.

They didn't hang around the store I worked in for that long! They were gone pretty quick!

Wow, I never heard of those until just now. They must not have done well at all. Damn.

Eyesore wrote:

Wow, I never heard of those until just now. They must not have done well at all. Damn.

Years from now, people will be saying the same thing about HD-DVD. Haha!

HD-DVD is the Laserdisc of the 00's.

I am sooooo glad I was too broke to take part in the recent DVD format war. I'll stick with my plain ol' DVD player, thanx. Besides, I probably would've invested in the losing side and now I'd be stuck with an HD-DVD player.