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RE: In other words ...

Posted by PAR on November 16, 2016 at 17:32:11

In Reply to: In other words ... posted by rbolaw on November 16, 2016 at 16:55:52:

I agree the premiums are offputting. However the main barriers IMO to hi-rez downloading include first having to know where to get them. All of the suppliers are obscure, small companies that are basically unknown as far as the great unwashed public are concerned. Secondly they require more computer expertise than many are happy to cope with including many of my, admittedly now somewhat aged, friends; installing dedicated download managers, zipped files etc. No way.

Most people downloading use services like i-tunes or Amazon: see an album or track, check a button and, zap, its on your phone and/or tablet, no worries. But it's MP3. Good enough for me, they say.

I am genuinely fearful that the great mass of music consumers really don't desire anything better than 320kb/s MP3. As mass consumption ultimately defines the market, come 5 years time that is therefore all we will be able to buy/listen to (ignoring audiophile labels with artists that you have never heard of making artisically dull but technically stunning stuff). This is why, for example, I think that all of that huffing and puffing elsewhere on these boards about MQA is just a waste of breath in the face of a real threat.

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