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Post by boscy on Jul 9, 2018 19:03:43 GMT -5
my comment: CDs can sound better than any other format when played back on the best gear. CDs played on expensive gear by brands such as Audio Research, Boulder, Esoteric, Accuphase, McIntosh, Vincent, Cary, PS Audio, and connected to high-end Digital to Analog converters such as those by PS Audio and Berkeley Audio Design can sound fantastically amazing. But the price of such outrageously expensive gear is out of reach for most people so most people never hear their CDs to their fullest potentials. For most people listening to CDs on consumer grade gear, they never know how great CDs can be. If you really want to hear your CDs to their fullest potential, bring a handful of them to a high-end audio dealer. You will hear details and a holographic sonic landscape from your CDs you may have never heard before. below is a link to the article:
JUL 08, 2018 LA Times By MARC WEINGARTEN Spotify is fine. But let's mourn the passing of CDswww.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-weingarten-compact-discs-20180708-story.html
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Post by Caviar on Jul 9, 2018 20:10:38 GMT -5
CDs are nice but I'm not carrying around CD stacks anymore. In time, Spotify will introduce a lossless format on a higher tier and all will be well.
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Jul 10, 2018 7:35:52 GMT -5
Spotify just needs to start having fully digital liner notes (including any album art) and there will honestly be zero reason for me to ever buy a CD (not that I buy many anyway)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2018 10:47:12 GMT -5
Spotify just needs to start having fully digital liner notes (including any album art) and there will honestly be zero reason for me to ever buy a CD (not that I buy many anyway) Whatever streaming service finally gets with this will have all my streaming-service coins unless it's Tidal |
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Post by newpower on Jul 10, 2018 10:54:57 GMT -5
In Qobuz you can see the CD booklets for most of the releases.
Not available in the US currently, but itβs coming in 2018
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Jul 10, 2018 14:05:52 GMT -5
Spotify just needs to start having fully digital liner notes (including any album art) and there will honestly be zero reason for me to ever buy a CD (not that I buy many anyway) Whatever streaming service finally gets with this will have all my streaming-service coins unless it's TidalI honestly don't understand why none of them have. It can't be that difficult to implement. |
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Post by SHOOTER on Jul 10, 2018 14:15:51 GMT -5
Whatever streaming service finally gets with this will have all my streaming-service coins unless it's TidalI honestly don't understand why none of them have. It can't be that difficult to implement. Same. I've continued to wonder why digital booklets haven't become standard issue (or at least full credits on artist websites like Post Malone did). I do stream now and still buy CDs but that was part of the reason why I never really transitioned to digital downloading albums; if I'm gonna pay $9.99+, and have the option, I want the full package. |
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Jul 10, 2018 14:43:59 GMT -5
For a while, some artists were including digital liner notes with digital downloads. Essentially just a PDF linked to the album in iTunes. I dont know why that didn't become a thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2018 17:03:49 GMT -5
Dang, I really lucked out with the digital albums I bought b/c I was not aware that some did not offer a digital booklet. Admittedly I didn't buy that many, b/c I always preferred physical over digital.
The only semi-reasonable excuse for streaming sites not to offer digital booklets is bandwidth/storage space. But Spotify has a new update every 22 hours so it's not like they couldn't come up with an update to accommodate that too. They do a half-ass job with the "credits" as it is (more current releases are usually updated properly but older song credits are often a mess); allowing artists to upload their own liner notes would probably save a lot of time on Spotify's end.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jul 10, 2018 17:55:49 GMT -5
I just moved like 12 boxes of about 1000 CDs (plus a few more boxes of about 100 vinyl) to my new apartment and I'm not even sorry.
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Post by Glove Slap on Jul 10, 2018 19:35:06 GMT -5
If others want to spend money to lug around tons of physical product over the ease of not having to do so, that's their prerogative and I couldn't care less as long as they don't step on my turf.
Artists should just put the booklets up for download on their sites.
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Post by Anticonformity on Jul 11, 2018 3:45:11 GMT -5
I just moved like 12 boxes of about 1000 CDs (plus a few more boxes of about 100 vinyl) to my new apartment and I'm not even sorry. hahaha literally same... so many rarities... |
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Post by Au$tin on Jul 11, 2018 13:22:48 GMT -5
This article just sounds like an ad for audio playback hardware.
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Heavy on the unless.
