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In Reply to: We all made this bed. Now we have to lie in it! posted by Gag Halfrunt on March 28, 2012 at 04:43:59:
There is every sign that music is moving to "the cloud." My 27 year old daughter will occasionally imagine buying a CD, but my 17 year old would NEVER do that. Years ago there was a transition from 45 singles to LPs for buyers who wanted more. The Walkman portable cassette player, then Walkman CD player, then iPod changed all that, culminating in music protected by iTunes, played on an iPhone. We have convenience galore!
But these days, unless a stereo can play music directly off a phone (or the cloud it talks to), it will be dead in the water. iTunes has most people's music held captive, and anything marketed to the masses MUST interface with it. And how to get "full" rez (let alone high rez) delivered in this new paradigm? I honestly think people now feel any music library that won't fit on their iPhone is too large. I am not sure the masses want to sacrifice precious drive space for a fractional improvement in sound. Drives getting larger on iPhones is a good thing!
It is such a different paradigm. There is no collector instinct when the music is not a physical media, but this is the reality.
My 17 year old knows my system sounds good, and will listen to it...by playing her phone on it via a Belkin cable out the headphone jack to the preamp. She does not want a stereo in her room...and I have offered!
I am not sure what people are expecting, but times have changed.
I will go on the record saying this...iTunes could make more money by charging a nominal additional amount for full rez music. CDs are on the way out...at least let us have access to an equivalent sound, and leave the hi rez options to the companies that want to mess with that. Of course the supercompressed options allows easier acquisition of new music by downloading wherever you are, not just where a fast connection exists. So full rez would have to be an option only.
As we know, the real reason this worked is iTunes prevents the free exchange of music by ripping and burning identical copies at will("authorized" computers/devices). That's not all bad, but we have thrown out the baby with the bath water.
Steve
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