| Going physical in digital era [message #91457] |
Tue, 18 February 2020 10:33  |
Taurus
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Registered: January 2020
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My friend is an enthusiast of Korean music. She buys physical albums of her favorite artists, which come with lyric books, photographs, photo cards, posters, and so on. They are cute but don't affect the music experience in any way. At the end of the day, she mostly listens by streaming anyway.
Artists are competing for numbers, selling concert tickets bundled with albums or doing other tricks I can't imagine, but I only have one thought in mind. Is there still a point in having these physical releases?
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| Re: Going physical in digital era [message #91579 is a reply to message #91577] |
Wed, 18 March 2020 10:19  |
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Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001
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I used to always prefer physical copies of media. And for the material that's most important to me, I still do. In fact, I sometimes like to have multiple copies of the same material - Vinyl, CD and (mp3 or other) File. For video, I always try to find a BluRay copy of the material. I do this both for quality and so that I can have the liner notes and artwork. Having the datafile copy of the material is largely a convenience thing for me. It's easy to push it over a network or put it on a puck (which is what I call USB flash drives).
Now days, however, I sometimes find myself getting movies without media in a pure download form. Sometimes I don't even actually download the file, leaving it on a cloud server, usually Amazon. I only do this to save space, and I only do it with movies that I like enough to own (and think I or someone on my family will watch more than once) but I don't "love" the movie and so I don't want to take up space on my shelves with it.
I haven't started doing that same thing with music though. If I have a digital download of an album, it's because I bought the music on Vinyl or CD and it came with a free digital download. I have a ton of that kind of material on a puck, and I often use that in cars.
That's just how I do it these days.
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| Re: Going physical in digital era [message #91606 is a reply to message #91602] |
Mon, 23 March 2020 01:51 |
Taurus
Messages: 16
Registered: January 2020
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Leot55 wrote on Sun, 22 March 2020 08:27gofar99 wrote on Sun, 23 February 2020 15:16A good question. However...I have long been wary of music that is only in digital format. It sounds great for sure...but do you really own it and what exactly are your rights to using it. Particularly if it is on a cloud server. What happens if it fails, goes bankrupt, or compromised. What happens if your down loads on your player get corrupted, or you lose it. With a physical format these are not issues (except stolen or damaged). Just food for thought.
Remember when that happened to Walmart music? You probably shunned it, but it was popular for a while. They sold digital singles for .88 each, then they stopped the service. So yeah, you could download them one last time, but that was a big warning to me that maybe I shouldn't entrust my music to iTunes (that was the next big thing at the time).
I've never heard of it! Thank goodness I only use music-specific platform; though there is no guarantee, at least I think they are more likely to last a long time than things like Walmart music. That's a good reminder of the danger to digital files, especially if you don't save them on your own accounts. I still think the convenience wins over such issue, though.
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