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End of the CD coming...
Spiff:
The music industry still makes more than 80 percent of their total revenue with physical media (at least in Australia and Germany), so why would they abandon them?
Data for Australia:
http://www.aria.com.au/documents/ARIAreleases2009wholesalesalefigures.pdf
Data for Germany:
http://www.musikindustrie.de/index.php?eID=tx_cms_showpic&file=uploads%2Fpics%2FAbb1-umsatz-digitalverkaeufe.jpg&width=800m&height=600m&bodyTag=%3Cbody%20style%3D%22margin%3A0%3B%20background%3A%23fff%3B%22%3E&wrap=%3Ca%20href%3D%22javascript%3Aclose%28%29%3B%22%3E%20%7C%20%3C%2Fa%3E&md5=337e3e62c21f3eb067e12d3bac49f5d3
The problem is that the downloads are mostly single track downloads which look impressive in the number of units sold but don't contribute that much in terms of sales. To change this, the number of album downloads will have to increase substantially and this will certainly take more than just one year.
TheFuriousWombat:
I'm fine with this. I haven't bought a CD released by a major label in ages. I mostly buy vinyl and cassettes and download a lot of other stuff. I think smaller labels will continue to put out CDs and CD-rs for some time now. If cassettes haven't died yet on the small label scene - and I could name at least a dozen labels that only put out cassettes off the top of my head and a couple dozen more that put out tapes along with their other output - CDs have a lot of life in them yet on that level. For smaller bands, CDs still make the most sense since, as mentioned, vinyl is expensive and download codes are kind of lame, something a lot of people probably won't buy. If I don't have to walk past the latest U2 and Katy Perry album in a record store by the end of the next year, I don't see anything wrong with that. Also less waste is always good.
Mr. Doctor:
I own more than 300 cds and buy cds on a regular basis.... So it goes without saying that this is terrible for me.
TinPenguin:
Luckily, in the genres I listen to (mostly metal), there is still a lot of value placed on the CD by the community. It would be unwise for the metal labels to stop CD production. I imagine the same is true for a lot of other smaller genres/labels. There does seem to be a correlation between people who listen to less-mainstream music and people who still like physical copies of it.
Physical format will never die out completely. It'll always be there, because there will always be a demand for it (in the foreseeable future). Perhaps it needs to evolve beyond the CD and find a format that can compete with download in this digital age, but unfortunately most investors wouldn't invest in such a development, because of this constant hammering insistence that physical is dead. It ain't.
smack that isaiah:
I, too, do not wish to see the decline of the CD. I have tons and tons of them, and I love buying them. I do also buy vinyl, but typically I only go after specific albums that I extremely thoroughly enjoy, and I end up having said album on both CD and vinyl. (I don't want to buy all of my music on vinyl)
w/r/t the "physical format evolving beyond the CD format" you mentioned, I remember seeing things previously of bands selling new albums on collectable usb thumb drives with the band's name/logo on them, with the music in flac or other lossless formatting. I haven't seen any deals/offers like that lately, but if one of my favorite bands offered up something like a thumb drive with music on it, I'd buy it up in a heartbeat.
One thing I already dislike about the whole digital download thing is the dissolution of the "album" as a concept/piece (I don't mean concept albums or rock-opera type deals, I just mean the creation of an album as its own musical entity). With such an ability for people to only download the latest single/individual song they like, it seems a number of musicians/producers are caring less and less about the structuring of an album--flow of songs, arrangements, etc. (e.g. how often do you see CD's (particularly pop) that are quite obviously just structured "1st hit single, 2nd single, slightly less popular song, 3rd single, cliche slow song, album starts to wind down now since there will be no more singles till the next summer, etc..."?)
--- Quote from: celticgeek on 05 Nov 2011, 09:04 ---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)
--- End quote ---
assuming you use linux, amazon's music downloading is still available for you/us. My dad downloads singles all the time, and amazon's his preferred place to get music (and he uses linux). I don't like to download albums, but if I have no choice (can't track down physical cd/shipping's too damn high), I've gone to amazon to do so and been successful (w/o booting up WINE or turning on a windows comp). You do have to put the music in their cloud, but you can easily download from there to your comp, as I've done before.
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