Re: [microsound] mp3s are killing the cd market..

[andrew jones <liminal18@xxxxxxx>]

On Nov 20, 2004, at 4:25 AM, david wrote:

> i don't think so.
> cdr and mp3s are only the technological updates of the old cassette. 
> back in the eighties we duplicated vinyls on tapes but that did not 
> kill in any way the vinyl sales.

actually in the 70s the music industry noticed a large loss in sales
when people began to tape trade. they got laws passed so that no one 
could
play the entirety of an LP on radio which was kinda like file sharing,
someone would play both sides of an album and you taped it. What in the 
end kept
the fight from continuing on was MTV, when MTV arrived sales 
sky-rocketed and a few
kids dubbing cassettes no longer was a big concern. They had all the 
usual stuff like
rock stars urging you to not tape stuff etc.

> the problem is that very few labels are trying to understand the 
> evolution of the music market.
> simply selling a cd in a poor jewel-case without any added 
> aesthetic/conceptual content is not enough anymore. the packagingis 
> much more important these days and i think that an extra effort from 
> the labels to do a better design of their releases is needed.

True, but I always find the concept that mp3s are "better" than cds is 
like claiming
a second generation tape dub is better than an LP. I think a new format 
would be
better, something that guarantees a higher quality in sound while being 
able to store
videos, multimedia, and fit easily in something the size of your ipod, 
hey maybe even
by able to hold your mp3s.

> this makes a product stand-out from the flood of releases and gives 
> that surplus value that a "normal" cd cannot have.
>
> do you think that a burned-to-cdr copy of the phonometrography 
> releases could have any sense?
>
> david.
>
> http://www.microsuoni.com
>
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