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hildegoat
10-29-2007, 09:45 AM
I've read a lot of articles about the demise of the CD and the rise of the LP, but this article sums it up nicely:

Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin (http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listeningpost/2007/10/listeningpost_1029)

Pressing plants are ramping up production, but where is the demand coming from? Why do so many people still love vinyl, even though its bulky, analog nature is anathema to everything music is supposed to be these days? Records, the vinyl evangelists will tell you, provide more of a connection between fans and artists. And many of today's music fans buy 180-gram vinyl LPs for home listening and MP3s for their portable devices.

What do you think?
Kevin McF
10-29-2007, 09:56 AM
incorrect
ewok.online
10-29-2007, 10:20 AM
Vinyl will never be as big as it was.
It's gonna continue to have a cult fanbase, but it'll never be as big as it once was.
thefed
10-29-2007, 10:24 AM
DEATH TO THE CD!!!:guitarsolo
Kevin McF
10-29-2007, 10:32 AM
Vinyl will never be as big as it was.
It's gonna continue to have a cult fanbase, but it'll never be as big as it once was.
the only way that vinyl can destroy the CD is if every vinyl comes with a link to download the album in a high (192 or 256 VBR) DRM mp3 for people to put on their portable digital players
FrigidRoses
10-29-2007, 10:34 AM
the only way that vinyl can destroy the CD is if every vinyl comes with a link to download the album in a high (192 or 256 VBR) DRM mp3 for people to put on their portable digital players

:upyours That would be awesome.
Rob
10-29-2007, 10:36 AM
the only way that vinyl can destroy the CD is if every vinyl comes with a link to download the album in a high (192 or 256 VBR) DRM mp3 for people to put on their portable digital players
Most newly released albums do.
ewok.online
10-29-2007, 10:39 AM
I just do it myself.
I don't trust Mp3s unless I make them.
Also, i am OCD like that.
Kevin McF
10-29-2007, 10:40 AM
Most newly released albums do.

what about old/OFP albums robert? What about those ones I find at garage sales?
Kevin McF
10-29-2007, 10:40 AM
I just do it myself.
I don't trust Mp3s unless I make them.
Also, i am OCD like that.
you have one of the USB turntables?
Rob
10-29-2007, 10:41 AM
what about old/OFP albums robert? What about those ones I find at garage sales?
You're paying $1 each most likely. It is not feasible for the album download to work after a resale has occurred anyways.
thefed
10-29-2007, 10:43 AM
you can just use garageband to make mp3s out of records...if you bought the record at a garage sale it probably cost fifty cents so i don't know what the complaining would be about then...
thefed
10-29-2007, 10:44 AM
you don't need a usb tabel.
ewok.online
10-29-2007, 10:45 AM
you have one of the USB turntables?

Nope.
I don't trust those, either.
I've heard the digital converters in them can be shoddy.
I just use my dad's Thorens TD-125 turntable with a super good Shure cartridge into my pre-amp so it does the phono amping on something i trust, and then i run RCA cables into my recording interface, which has amazing D/A converters.

Then I record the album into Sony Sound Forge 9 and remove hiss, pops, and edit it into tracks. It takes a long ass time, but I get enjoyment out of it.
thefed
10-29-2007, 10:54 AM
i'd miss the hiss and pops.
Kevin McF
10-29-2007, 11:16 AM
You're paying $1 each most likely. It is not feasible for the album download to work after a resale has occurred anyways.

but if as this article is saying, and CDs to disappear there needs to be a way to solve this.
Rob
10-29-2007, 11:18 AM
but if as this article is saying, and CDs to disappear there needs to be a way to solve this.
Not everyone needs every album on their portable device.
Kevin McF
10-29-2007, 11:21 AM
Not everyone needs every album on their portable device.
I disagree
ewok.online
10-29-2007, 11:53 AM
I disagree

Same here.
Well, i'm sure not everyone wants to have everything on them at once, but that in my mind is the beauty of portable devices. I can hear anything I own at the touch of a button.
Faded Rose
10-29-2007, 03:51 PM
Since I found all my old vinyl LPs while packing up to move I am seriously thinking of going back to vinyl. I don't put everything I own on iPod....I don't use it all the time.
thefed
10-29-2007, 04:02 PM
Since I found all my old vinyl LPs while packing up to move I am seriously thinking of going back to vinyl. I don't put everything I own on iPod....I don't use it all the time.

:upyours :upyours :upyours
SkortBrun
10-29-2007, 04:52 PM
Vinyl's cool, but I'd rather have CD's.
Starlite
10-30-2007, 03:55 AM
Not everyone needs every album on their portable device.

I would love it if I could do that. My 20GB player has less than 50MB free :D
Tim Simmons
10-30-2007, 10:08 AM
All that matters is that they are making more vinyls.
TheOneThatLeaves
11-01-2007, 06:42 PM
Well Vinyl won't replace cds because mp3s will but people still like to have the physical object so Vinyl will probably get a larger following ...
hildegoat
01-21-2008, 11:48 AM
Time has an article about the "resurgence" of vinyl, and name drops Ryan Adams as well:

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1702369,00.html
Faded Rose
01-21-2008, 12:14 PM
Good article. I'm pleased about that.