If CD was a digital download?

[Verse Chorus Verse]

Maybe I'm oldschool, but I prefer having the disk in my hands. I hate digital download. Perhaps they can do both with the Chinese Democracy cd coming with some bonus features.

Agreed 100 percent. I don't trust having only MP3s, especially with how reformatting erases everything and leaves you with hours of re-downloading songs.  And I prefer an actual, physical copy. It looks good to have a giant rack filled with CDs in your room.

[GNRfan2008]

A lot of people are against digital downloads.

But in some cases, they're a very good thing. Without iTunes, Izzy wouldn't have released two albums in 2007....


The ironic thing is that in an age of HD big screen TVs, many people listen to their compressed music files using iPods with $20 headphones....




/jarmo

Precisely. Music is considered more portable than home entertainment like DVD's, Blu-ray, or HD DVD. However, even digital music stores are starting to increase their quality. All of Amazon's mp3 downloads are 256 kbps, and iTunes has some 256 kbps DRM-free AAC files even though the labels are currently favoring Amazon in an effort to defeat Apple's monopoly by forcing some of their downloads on iTunes to still have DRM with only 128 kbps bitrate. Led Zeppelin is the best example of this. Buy from Amazon mp3 and it's high quality mp3's vs. DRM, low quality AAC files from iTunes.

even if they offer higher mp3 or AAC bitrates.... they still are all compressed files touching/cutting "hearable" frequencies for human ears. the main and weird point is: everything increased in quality over the years but with audio and internet in 2008(!) - quality is down and still much lower quality than a CD....and CD standard is more than 25(!!!!) years old allready (ask yourself if you tape video tv stuff on Betamax in 2008??). add the fact that a "real-25-year-old-standard-CD-format" from chinese democracy is produced anyway (you dont think Axl is listening through 128-256kbps MP3s through headphones/PC speakers, huh?)....i'll never get the point why going down qualitywise from there.

as for me i absolutley wouldnt like to be able to only get the compressed mp3 stuff at first, then waiting weeks/months for a possible physical (25-years-old-standard) cd!

That's why I said they need to have a lossless or uncompressed pre-order. Make it .wav files or Apple Lossless or WMA Lossless ripped straight from the master. Don't release the lossless or uncompressed pre-order version, CD version, or compressed download versions until you have 2 million pre-orders. People can pre-order as many copies as they wish. The die hards would definitely get multiple copies of the pre-order in order to speed up the official release of the album.

[Giant_Robot]

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/illegal_music_downloaders_to_face_internet_ban.html

 

[wight gunner]

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/illegal_music_downloaders_to_face_internet_ban.html

 

You are talking about New Labour and Gordon Brown, they  go for the populus vote and don't think them through ( alittle bit like some members here ), they can't even keep hold of the data they own, can't think they'd do a better job of gathering the stuff that they don't.

[Giant_Robot]

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/illegal_music_downloaders_to_face_internet_ban.html

 

You are talking about New Labour and Gordon Brown, they  go for the populus vote and don't think them through ( alittle bit like some members here ), they can't even keep hold of the data they own, can't think they'd do a better job of gathering the stuff that they don't.

I dont support New Labour at all !
But i think it must happen, because it tearing apart the Music Industry !