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End of the CD coming...

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pwhodges:
End of the CD?

Classical commentary.

How do you feel about this?

valley_parade:
I've been buying vinyl only for the past 2-3 years anyway.

Adios, CD.

schimmy:
I have bought a total of one CD in the past three years, and it's been even longer since I bought vinyl. I don't know anybody in my age group that still buys physical media, (or buys music, full stop, but that's another discussion) and all I can say is... so what? I don't see CDs having any advantage at all over downloads, and think that pretty much everything I value about the music I listen to is aided by the existence of the internet, whilst the use of physical media as the means of distribution was only ever a limiting factor.

ALoveSupreme:
Good riddance.  

I mean, I hope the production of CDs aren't abandoned all together, as it's incredibly expensive for d.i.y. bands to produce vinyl and selling a physical item at a show trumps selling a "download card" or something.  Tapes are good too, but most people don't "actually" have tape decks.  But the mentioning of tapes being in production I guess means CDRs or whatever will probably stick around.

celticgeek:
This is something that has been coming for a while, since almost everybody has access to digital formats in some way or other. 

I like to buy CDs from small unknown groups at their concerts, so I can get them autographed.  This may be a problem for me, although some of these groups produce their own CDs, so they may still be available for quite some time. 

I also like to rip the CDs I own to the .flac format, but not very many digital download websites have that format available, (bandcamp.com being an exception). 

I have purchased music in digital format from amazon.com (although they no longer support my operating system, and they want you to put your music in the cloud), cdbaby.com (they do not have .flac available), as well as some other places, most of which only support .mp3 formats.

So I will miss CDs, but I probably will continue to download music in digital format. 

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