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I was all set to give up CDs, but I've now lost quite few of digital music downloads I've paid for because companies have closed down, upgraded their stores or storage, or the files have just expired. So far, my CD collection has been more long-lived!
 
I also get more and more of my stuff digitally and listen to it on the computer or my phone. I keep my old CDs in CD cases nowadays cause I don't wanna display them, they take up too much space and I rarely take em out. I only really buy CDs if it is something I wanna collect...
 
Illegal ones I guess. I thought legal downloads never have (the same) booklets as CD's but I don't know much about it.
 
Is it as complete?

I wonder how that goes with albums from the Blue Note label. This is a jazz label which has produced countless of jazz albums, on which all CD's feature texts with great insight on the history of the players. The rare ones aside, lots of these CD's are pretty cheap (5 euro). I wonder if this same info from the booklet comes with a(ny) digital download.
 
I still like purchasing CDs because of the booklets and such. Also, sometimes I just like throwing on a CD on my car instead of using my iPod.
 
Forostar said:
Is it as complete?

I wonder how that goes with albums from the Blue Note label. This is a jazz label which has produced countless of jazz albums, on which all CD's feature texts with great insight on the history of the players. The rare ones aside, lots of these CD's are pretty cheap (5 euro). I wonder if this same info from the booklet comes with a(ny) digital download.
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Blue Note has actually done a great job with transferring to the digital era. I have a Spotify app for Blue Note and it's really cool. It's sorted by artists, with in depth bios and information on every album. Everything ever released on Blue Note is represented on this app, it's great. Don't know if you'd get that much buying the album on iTunes though.
 
Can't comment on the jazz stuff, can't even really make an honest comparison on the rock and metal albums because I haven't bought enough digital albums.
I know the few I have got seem to be pretty thorough, I also know others that have CD booklets (Awoken Broken) came with nothing at all digitally. Seems like a pretty easy value added feature that should be automatic, but we aren't there yet.

My oldest CDs were the same way, the LPs had awesome sleeves, the CDs came with nothing at all.
I still miss the full-size LP sleeves. Used to spend hours staring at Powerslave and CSiT when they were new.
 
mckindog said:
Used to spend hours staring at Powerslave and CSiT when they were new.
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:yes: Still have those LPs, and they still look and sound great.

I do still buy CDs, often used. I won't re-hash my old CD-mastering/loudness war missives here, but often the old CDs sound better than the newer remasters, which are typically used by iTunes, Amazon and other downloading services, as well as Spotify and Napster. MOG is a little different, it caters to audiophiles, so you sometimes get the earlier, better mastering. I love MOG, by the way.
 
I liked MOG until it suddenly stopped working for me. Spotify has a better interface anyway, plus I prefer when it isn't in browser.
 
My paper is at 9 pages/3000 words. And I think that I'm out of the woods. Compared to what I've been through, the rest is child's play.
 
Not me :(

I couldn't sleep at all last night, I'll have to go to bed early if I want to survive school tomorrow
 
I can throw a few bullets..
Information now available on the CD can be obtained via internet. Record companies and /or digital distributors have to realise that they should give all available info including notes in digital form. They haven't yet. No problem, people are clever. If they don't change soon, illegal download will rise again.

They are so monolithic. I had to shift to iTunes US because of the country limitation thing. So as the US is the bigger, it's the most likely to have songs from other countries, too. How bullshit is that?? To have such a tool like internet and not to be able to purchase a say song from a Polish artist, because you belong to US store and the song is not available there?? (while it is available in the Polish store)
 
Ah, a subject I can speak to on some rather extensive authority.

Songs aren't available on other countries for two reasons:
1) National restrictions
2) Label restrictions

Apple wants nothing more than to sell every single bit of song they have to everyone in the world. The problem is that a lot of music is restricted by country law, or else the labels believe they will still make more money there on CDs. This is especially true in the former Soviet bloc countries, I found, when I worked at Apple.

Also, if you live on the Channel Islands, you're fucked. Don't know why, but there's no iTunes Store there. Puerto Rico can get screwed too.
 
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