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Originally posted by gameover9Compulsive behaviour - many people don't just but CD's they collect them, even if they do not realise this. Also, a lot of people do not know how to download music or burn CD's. My mother is not going to go to all the effort of learning how to do that on a PC when she only proably buys 10 CD's a year max. Probaly most of the general public think it is illegal and so will not do it.
Why do CDs still exist? I mean with everybody downloading music, how do CD stores stay in business?
Andrew
02 Oct 04
Originally posted by latex bishopPut me in that category. Can you download a single song, rather than a whole album? How about availability of obscurities? What if you are looking for a song recorded in 1966 by the Charleston Trio?
... Also, a lot of people do not know how to download music or burn CD's...
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Originally posted by Paul DiracYou can find almost any song. Yes you can download a single song.
Put me in that category. Can you download a single song, rather than a whole album? How about availability of obscurities? What if you are looking for a song recorded in 1966 by the Charleston Trio?
http://www.kazaa.com/us/index.htm
download the free one, if you have a mac tell me and I'll show you a good one
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Originally posted by gameover9Yes you can download songs or albums. You would really need broadband to do it.
You can find almost any song. Yes you can download a single song.
http://www.kazaa.com/us/index.htm
download the free one, if you have a mac tell me and I'll show you a good one
Apple operate I tunes, which charge 75p per track downloaded. When you have downloaded the file you can convert it to a normal audio track to play in thye car or stereo.
I find it makes sense if you know you are only going to like a couple of tracks and do not want to buy the whole albumn (particually if it is a song from an advert of a film that has grown on you).
It can be frustrating though. I love the track in the pegeuot 307 advert, its from the soundtrack to the film 24 days later but I can not find just that track to download :-(
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Originally posted by gameover9I dunno if you should be promoting P2P downloads here as it is illegal
You can find almost any song. Yes you can download a single song.
http://www.kazaa.com/us/index.htm
download the free one, if you have a mac tell me and I'll show you a good one
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02 Oct 04
Originally posted by Impala03It is legal to download from specific authorised locations where you pay for the music in some form - you can not just bootleg it P2P from someones hardrive - that is still a big no no!!!
Downloading is no longer illegal. The reason it is no longer illegal is because a company has found out a way to monitor the popular downloads and they send the results to the radio station. The radio station plays the artists songs and the artists get paid for it
Andrew
02 Oct 04
Originally posted by latex bishopIt's legal, it's called peer-to-peer sharing. One person gets the song, uploads it and then shares it with other people.
It is legal to download from specific authorised locations where you pay for the music in some form - you can not just bootleg it P2P from someones hardrive - that is still a big no no!!!
Andrew
02 Oct 04
Originally posted by gameover9I download lots of music.
Why do CDs still exist? I mean with everybody downloading music, how do CD stores stay in business?
But there are various artists I'll buy the CD of, even before listening to it: Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Springsteen and U2.
A friend of mine is a record collector. He still buys albums!
Another problem, which he explained to me, is that CD's have a lower sound quality that a record. A WAV file (which is the CD format) has the high and low tones chopped off. A record doesn't.
An MP3 (which is internet format music) is 1/12 the size of a WAV file and has, thus, even more high's and lows chopped off.
That could be another reason for buying CD's.
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Originally posted by gameover9I still buy CD`s because i like to have a back up copy for my system http://www.digitalfidelity.com/
Why do CDs still exist? I mean with everybody downloading music, how do CD stores stay in business?
Best of both worlds.
One of course can also lend out from a public library but only to listen to 😉
If i lose the album or track in the system, at least i can re rip it.
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Originally posted by shavixmirIt might pay to research into lossy and lossless compression. A good MP3 encoder can encode an uncompressed wave at CD-quality into an MP3 of the same quality but of smaller file-size. Only some data is altered with a good MP3 encoder so that it sounds identical to the human ear as the original. Free and non-commercial encoders do a sloppier job and alter more data just to encode at the desired bitrate.
I download lots of music.
But there are various artists I'll buy the CD of, even before listening to it: Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Springsteen and U2.
A friend of mine is a record collector. He still buys albums!
Another problem, whic ...[text shortened]... s chopped off.
That could be another reason for buying CD's.
A raw wave file doesn't have any 'high' or 'low' tones chopped off. A CD-quality wave however plays back 44,100 samples a second. Since two samples are required for one complete oscillation, the highest possible tone that can be played is one at 22,050 Hz. To put that in perspective, middle-C on the piano is 440 Hz. If you look at any average to above average set of headphones or speakers you will notice their response frequency range is around 20 Hz to 22 kHz. Thus, even if your sound hardware can play back more samples per second, your speakers would still be limiting it to CD-quality (assuming their maximum response frequency is 22 kHz).
The only guarantee that you get with buying a CD is that it is legal, and you can bet that more than 90% of your money has gone to the record company and not the artist. Downloading a 160kbps MP3 nearly guarantees the same quality as the purchased CD (although CD-quality MP3s are 128kbps, most 'free' MP3 encoders don't do a good job at that bitrate).