[abt87]

While I'd rather get music for 99 cents per song on iTunes than end up paying $18 for a CD with only two good songs, at least the CD still has a higher bit-rate, and I can rip the songs into any format I choose, and I don't have to worry about losing my music if I already have a copy on CD (either from a store-bought album, or from a burned CD-R). While physical media for music is a pain to carry around, it still serves as a good backup.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Wow, I feel old now.

[RepublitarianRoger]

I buy singles on iTunes, but I’ll keep buying any full albums that I want on CD, as long as digital music has these inferior “features”:

1. DRM restrictions
2. Reduced fidelity; lost audio information compared to CDs.
3. Just a low-res digital cover graphic and not the entire front cover, back cover, inlays, and booklet that comes with the CD.

Also, single tracks on iTunes (or any other legal service) should cost no more than 50 cents.

[Sybeck1]

I watched “American Psycho” the other night. Set in the 80’s the main character kept reviewing CDs before, during and after his murder sprees.

[ari-freedom]

the ipod offers better convenience, not technology. dvd audio is superior but most people won’t appreciate the quality if they have no problem with ipods.

[Plutarch]

It is thought that 12.5% of all CD's have been AOL's.

[Fishtalk]

Ah, just the thread I’ve been looking for. Maybe someone will give me some help. Freepers know everything.

I just got two new computers. Both of them have one device, called a “DVD Drive”.

Now I installed some new programd using this drive...the usual way. I put the installation disk in the drive and the program installed.

So why is it called a “DVD drive”? I think of DVD’s as things that have movies on them. The front of the thing does say it’s a “multi-use” sort of thing.

I also have a camera/movie recorder and I want to apply for a TV show that will have me winning millions. The rules say that the film that I must make of myself should be “DVD formats”.

So....can I copy the AVI file from my C drive onto this “DVD drive”? Can I use regular CD-RW or CD-R disks in this thing? Does the fact that it’s called a DVD drive thus make my copy of the AVI file on it a “DVD format”?

I appreciate any help anyone can give me. I will share some of my millions with you if I get some good answers.

I am new to this but chugging along as I learn.

Heh.

[CHEE]

What ever happened to the good old days where you would spend hours writing FORTRAN or COBOL programs on a coding form, desk check it until your eyes fall out then send it to the key punch department. Twenty-four hours later you would receive the error report along with the card deck. Make the correction on a code sheet, off to key punch. The changed on new punch cards would be returned and you pull the bad cards from the deck (hope not to drop the deck) and replace with the new cards. Now back to the processing department and await the results Twenty four hours later. And on And on And on.

[Mr. Mojo]

Never should’ve sold by vinyl collection. Vinyl recorded onto reel-to-reel or a high quality cassette deck sounds (to my ears) far superior to digital. Can listen for hours on end. Digital, otoh, get irksome after less than an hour of listening. Don’t know exactly why.

[Gay State Conservative]

I *love* music and always have.The CD is an amazing invention for someone like me.Sound quality is superior to anything else,you can play the music over and over and over without compromising sound quality and you can rip individual songs in a way that allows one to have over an hour of songs,every one of which you like.

Thankfully due to the ripping capabilities of CDs my music collection is 99.9% complete...at almost 5,000 songs (mostly from the 50's and 60's).

[fkabuckeyesrule]

he first cd I saw was when my roomate in probably ‘86 bought a CD. I was afraid to touch it at first. My first CD was The Hooters.

[Spruce]

EVERY CD player should come from the factory with a copy of Dark side of the Moon.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

Vinyl, along with other analogue sources such as RTR tape, still sounds better to me 99% of the time. Thankfully CD recording and playback has improved pretty drastically over the last quarter century. ‘80s digital would drive me out of a room in seconds with a screaming headache; now I can listen to decent CDs without pain (though the bad ones are still horrendous), but with no real pleasure or musical involvement.

[-YYZ-]

I occasionally download some old tune that I have a hankering to hear again, but some of my favourite songs are ones that I never would have heard if I didn’t buy the whole album. Of course, I could always illegally download the whole album, but I don’t believe in doing that.

And while CDs may have their shortcomings, they’re good enough for my ears and certainly a heck of lot better quality than a lot of the poorly-encoded MP3s out there.

[Malsua]

The thing I don’t get...

I was in my teens and buying music in 1982. My vehicle had a Tape player. It was leet(it had auto reverse). There was simply no way that I’d pay nearly double for a CD that I couldn’t play in my car. While all that caught on a few years later...CDS were NOT a big influence until the 90s. Tapes ruled till probably 1990.

[Clemenza]

Remember watching a "Consumer Reports" special, broadcast on HBO no less, on how JVC was introducing a "laser disk" that would revolutionize how we listened to music. I must have been 6 or 7 at the time, but I was intrigued by the laser.

The first CD I remember seeing in a store was Billy Joel's "An Innocent Man" at Sears. The first one I ever bought (on the same day as my first CD player) was Metallica's then recently remastered "Kill 'Em All" in 1988.

[SaintDismas]

Well, I’m just too old and set in my ways to understand what all this talk means, and I’ve got my fingers in my ears and my eyes shut and yammering gibberish, for anyone who would like to enlighten me any futher...What I’d just like to know how is you deal with scratched CD’s. Should I throw them out? I might learn IPOD however, my daughter has one. She thinks I’m hilariously hopeless though

[TChris]

I remember listening to my first CD. It was Slade, and I heard it on a player in Radio Shack.

The CD was a total paradigm shift away from the vinyl LP and magnetic cassette tape. Truly a revolutionary technology.

[bmwcyle]