CDP's being dumped for hard drive driven units?

The future of hi-rez music is downloads or DVDs with data files. Either way, PC playback is what you will need, and why not? This is not like CD "replacing" LP. It's the same software format, it's just the storage medium and/or distribution method that's different.

Ir recently dawned on me why PC audio is such a no-brainer. Think of this: say you can download a favorite artist's new album or you can purchase that exact same software burned via mass production manufacturing onto a silver disc. At best, the latter is as good as the former.

Dodgealum: strictly speaking, those people who are ripping their collections to hard drive should not be selling or even giving away their CDs. Illegal and unethical, but widespread, I know.

After a few more modes that aren't on the books, you realize that the playback system can be improved by 1/3 in every piece of audio gear.Mechanical vibration plays a huge part in how sound is resolved and recreated in ones sound room. I feel no need to switch to a computer based system, especially when XRCD are my primary vehicle.I know that my sound is amazing in it's own right and a new format will have to evolve through time.

Amen Dodgealum!!! I scored tons of great RVG Blue Note reissues at a used CD store this weekend. I can't walk out of a used CD store without dropping $100, there is just too much coming in now. Keep rippin' those CDs and pray your hard drive doesn't crash or you backup fail. I have a RAID and external backup nightly (lost all the wife's email and family pictures once...I never kept really imporant stuff on the home computer) and I still do not trust it for my only copy of my music. I still haven't found a format I like, all MP3 sound like crap and FLAC doesn't work with Ipods.

Drubin
When I bought my 'Whatever CDs' did I somehow agree I would never resell or gift them to another?

If it's illegal to resell CDs or any other disc, or album, preowned, why would this site or any others participate, and thereby endorse, such illicit activities?

From buying or downloading free tracks and used CDs I've spent more on new CDs as the result as I've been enabled greater familiarity with the artists work. The days of buying a 'pig in a poke' are near gone.

In fact, it is my understanding, any artist connected to a major lable makes his or her or their moneies by performances by and large, and not nearly as much as CD sales.

Didn't all this get decided some few years ago when lables found out copyright protection wasn't working anyhow??

These same labels as I recall also said they would lower the costs of CDs down the road... even after losing a class action suit over that aspect, they've not done it.... and won't. they ain't ever done me any favors... and they lied too, so I'll do as I please with that which I buy outright, or that which given to me.

It's only illegal and, especially, unethical, if you've made a copy, which is what you are doing when you rip a CD. Think about it. You get full benefit of the license and so does someone else, but the artist gets paid only once. Of course, if you no longer want the music, then you are free to sell or give away the license to someone else. But you can't make a copy first.

I opened a thread on this subject several weeks ago, wondering what the issues and ramification were of the computer audio age. I became convinced that I needed to hang onto my collection.