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In Reply to: RE: To each his own posted by E-Stat on December 20, 2016 at 09:18:02
dbPoweramp sounds great. A lot of people rip copies (wav files) of original CD's which can be more time consuming using mediamonkey, foobar and even jriver but then again copies are illegal ;)
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I like CDs even though I don't use them much ... once I acquire a CD I immediately rip it to Hard Disk Drive (HDD) as 16/44 files and use that for storage and playback, mostly.I never did buy a CD player; they all sounded terrible to my ears right up until the mid 1990's when I first bought a CD-ROM equipped computer, and used that instead. It didn't sound any worse than the standalone disk players I auditioned at the time so I pronounced it good and moved on.
At the time, disk drives were not large enough to hold much music; a CD itself was as large as the drives you could reasonably buy. So the computer was used as a line level CD player.
I did eventually buy an OPPO multi-disk player (not Blu-Ray though) but of course it was to access DVD-A and SACD more than anything else.
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dbPoweramp sounds great. A lot of people rip copies (wav files) of original CD's which can be more time consuming using mediamonkey, foobar and even jriver but then again copies are illegal ;)
..."By Law, in Canada, copying music (not video) is specifically legal under the Copyright Act. Music Rights Holders are compensated by a levy on re-writeable media such as CD-R, DVD-RW, etc. which is then distributed via same rights organization that deals with distributing any copyright fees such as radio airplay, television rights clearanceing or Muzak licensed public streaming (such as at your Dentist's Office).
Although the levy is not huge, it is comparable to what artists receive by way of royalty from Record Labels and is higher than the average payment from downloads.
The contracts between artists and Record Labels are secret and covered by a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), but the rates are well known; about 5c per song for a CD and about half that for a download.
It might be worth mentioning at this point that artists had to sue the labels in order to get paid for downloads; prior to the successful lawsuit the labels paid $zero for downloads.
Note that the label gets 70c from Apple (for example) per song, and pays the artist 2c from that amount. If the artist still owes the label money for the last recording session, they keep the whole 70c; otherwise they only get to keep 68c and pay 2c to the artists.
Industry figures tell us that less than 1% of all artists ever manage to pay back their label all the money they owe, and thus start to get royalty checks actually paid to them.
There is something called the "Statutory Rate" which is mentioned in US Law, but all you need to know about that is no artist, not even The Rolling Stones, gets a payment that large, which is 7c per song.
I therefore often sample new-to-me music from my local public library, which has robust CD collections available for library card holders, just like books. Our city public library routinely buys two copies of virtually every disk released, and for more popular titles will purchase perhaps a dozen copies (one per branch, plus archival copies). There is an entire floor at Main Branch, a multi-story building one half a city block wide and one block long, full of CDs and other disk media you can take home (maximum 8 at any one time).
If they are music CDs you can rip them to your computer, perfectly legally.
Despite that, I still buy new full-cost CDs and peruse remainder bins and flea markets. Note the distinction ... all music copyrights are owned by the Record Label, not the musicians ... it's the essence of a recording contract with a label. A royalty is paid to the musicians which is their compensation for signing off the copyrights to the label, which broadly speaking they never see, as they must pay back the label for monies advanced to them to record the release in the first place.
The cost of recording has a magic tendency to equal the sales potential of a given release. Funny that way.
However, those royalties are only paid on 90% * of the sales of full retail CDs. Discounted disks such as those found in the discount bins at Wal-Mart are royalty free. The band gets nothing, not even a credit against loans, when you buy them.
Most artists get more rights money under the Canadian copyright scheme than they ever did from disk sales, and aside from grumbling about the rates, which is a bargaining tactic as the rates are revisited from time to time, the artists are quite happy with the scheme.
* 90% because the label retains 10% of all royalty payments to account for disks given away as promotion. No, they don't give away 10% of the production run. That's why you should read contracts before you sign them.
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I believe that it's perfectly legal to make copies for your own use. What's not legal is (a) to make a copy and give that copy to someone else, or (b) to make a copy, keep that copy, and give the original to someone else. That is part of the reason why I keep all my cds after ripping them to the hard drive.
Happy listening,
Jim
"The passage of my life is measured out in shirts."
- Brian Eno
is the ability to access your musical library instantly - across multiple systems without making CDR copies - and in ways you could never do jockeying disks in and out of jewel boxes.
I now spend far more time listening than shuffling. :)
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