I guess. It’s just sad to me to see sound recordings—albums—go the way of the dinasaur. Digital technology killed recorded music.
>> I guess. It’s just sad to me to see sound recordings—albums—go the way of the dinasaur. Digital technology killed recorded music.
I wouldn’t say it killed recorded music — but it did kill the “album”. The recorded music industry must adapt its business model if it will survive.
People don’t buy albums anymore, they buy individual songs. I buy the songs I like, and pass on the ones I don’t. It is far more efficient. Rather than buying a $15 album for the 2 songs I like, I spend $2 on the two songs.
Actually, the music industry got an increase in business from me. If I only liked 3 songs on an album, I wouldn’t buy anything. Now, I’ll buy the three songs.
SnakeDoc
I purchased the CDs and imported every song on my iPOD. The collection has been fairly static over the past few years. I have little time to listen to the radio to hear anything that might pique my interest. When I do take the time, I'm not hearing anything that would motivate me to make a purchase. The problem lies with the producers of the music. They aren't producing anything I want to hear. It's not even good enough to steal off the net.
The only use I have for BitTorrent is downloading Linux releases or updates. Lately, I've found that to be a waste of time and bandwidth. I can order the DVDs from DiscountLinuxDVD for less than it takes to download, label and burn my own. I've recently booted the "btdna" processes off my Windows boxes. It was sucking bandwidth (network and CPU) and enabling potential theft at my expense. I did my most recent upgrade of the Debian platforms from 4.0r3 to 5.0 using only "apt-get dist-upgrade".
Huck, I record my old albums....the song I want, into my computer, them make cds . See DAK.com ..........they also has a depopper to eliminate the hisses of the old albums