HD Music Alerts!

[rygher3]

Dec 13, 2010 23:58:29 GMT -5 bd52 said:

I may be wrong here, but I think the HD audio market will always be with us from now on. Here are my reasons for thinking this. From what I read DAC's are getting more and more popular. They lend themselves nicely to Hi-rez music. Sooner or later the MP3 kids are going to grow up and probably want a nice music system.

They will already know and understand digital music and the process of downloading it. In fact, that's probably all they will know because CD's will be dead. How hard will it be for them to jump to better sounding HD music when they mature and can afford it?

Lastly, how much do these HD music sites have tied up in inventory and overhead costs? For example, once a site has a really nice classical piece that will basically never go out of style, why would they ever stop selling it? Same with classic rock. It's not going to cost them much to keep it on their website is it?

Just my opinion here.

I don't think it will be them wanting better or maturing and being able to afford it, but a natural progression. As battery life, storage space, and processing power increase, it will pave the way for the added ability of forced HD Music. That said, it would certainly take a long time for this to be the case, but I certainly think in the end it will happen.

[bdripper]

I don't think CD quality is going to go away. I think the whole reason for the 128 mp3 was so we could fit 50 albums on our 2gb ipods. The reason the mp3 scene is so big is because we want as many albums as possible on our little portable players. But now hard drive space is getting cheap.

I have 700GB of Wav files ripped from CDs. I have three 1.5TB backups of the Wav files. Then on my laptop, I have converted those wav to 320 lame mp3 to fit on my 160gb iPod. I don't need lossless on my ipod and yes, I use a very high $$$ pair of JH Audio in ears.

I just don't see CD quality going away. I actually see record companies releasing more HD flacs from their own site and think computer based systems will sweep the market in the next 5 years. You know Emotiva will announce a all-in-one music server next week and them release it sometimes in 2012!!

[Deleted]

I hope you're right. Among the people I have been around much lately perhaps 1 of them even knows there's a difference between mp3 and CD and between CD and HD. I can clearly tell the difference between all of them. People are even more reluctant to spend extra because of this depression that we are in the middle of. People I know are not buying high performance computers either, just netbooks.

[bdripper]

Let me hone in on what I meant by "I don't think CD quality is going to go away." I do think that the physical CD will go away and you will have only music downloads like iTunes. From there you can choose your choice of bit rate. Say $10 for a 320kbps album or $14 for a 16bit 1411kbps album. We might even have a "itunes" type store owned by the record industry.

I believe with the lower CD sales each year and the higher download sales they are starting to realize their potential. They will just have to get over the fact that for every one album sold, it will probably end up on 50 different ipods.

[monkumonku]

Dec 14, 2010 16:28:16 GMT -5 bdripper said:

Let me hone in on what I meant by "I don't think CD quality is going to go away." I do think that the physical CD will go away and you will have only music downloads like iTunes. From there you can choose your choice of bit rate. Say $10 for a 320kbps album or $14 for a 16bit 1411kbps album. We might even have a "itunes" type store owned by the record industry.

I believe with the lower CD sales each year and the higher download sales they are starting to realize their potential. They will just have to get over the fact that for every one album sold, it will probably end up on 50 different ipods.

Well you figure that the cost of doing downloads is a whole lot less than manufacturing CD's and the related cases, covers, printed material, distribution costs, warehouse storage costs, etc., so the pricing SHOULD be adjusted accordingly, to the point where it makes it affordable and discourages unauthorized copies.

That said, I know in the real world it probably won't happen because the record companies are greedy and consumers are dishonest schmucks.