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Future of CD's - Hard drive based music

The big change/future I have found is the use of all digital music - I havent used my CD player since christmas - I got a Mac Mini and ripped all my CDs to the harddrive lossless formated and got a decent DAC - I Ripped only the songs I liked and I now have over 4 days worth of music I enjoy - no more getting up changing CD's,I can instantly play any song from my entire library of favorites. I use my Sony Hi-def TV as the monitor so I can web browse while listening to music. The sound quality is as good as CD's as far as I can tell - I wonder how long it will be before lossless songs are offered online - this will completely kill the need for CD's for me.
thymanst
don_s
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Jaybo, To add to what you said--Many times those who just download one song from a CD miss some real jems. I recently bought a CD (the actual physical disc) because one song grabbed me. Then I discovered another song on the CD that I liked even more after hearing it on my system and I have grown fond of the entire disc.

I copied the disc to my music server and safely stored the disc because I plan to live for a long time and expect to need it again.
bigamp
219 posts
 
Thymanst-Agreed. I bought a good DAC because I wanted to get into PC-based audio. I also got a CD/SACD transport, because we still can't rip SACDs. If Sony ever allows DSD to be ripped to hard drive, I will probably ditch the transport. (EmmLabs CDSD transport and DCC2 DAC).

Jrun-There is ~100% chance a drive will fail. One solution is to backup music or the entire system to an external hard drive and just put the hard drive away in case you need it. So, if the computer fails, you can plug in the external drive and restore the system, including music (Acronis TruImage lets you do this with USB drives.) Another more expensive solution is to use a RAID-5 array--when one of the drives fails, it is rebuilt from the other drives.
jsadurni
210 posts
 
Gibson58 I agree with you about the graphics the arstist intended for his music, but in the computer you can download a file or go the the artist web page and see a whole graphic presentation.

I think in the near future, music will be downloaded from the groups own website, we will listen to internet radio and from there link to the groups site, independent internet radio stations will pop up from the most wierd music to the most "gourmet" music, we will exchange links to radio stations and from there link to the arstist own site, maybe even chat a little with them....
Bye bye record labels!!!
Artists can actually play in digital and record everything. We will be able to download jam sessions and new releases...unplugged versions uploaded this afternoon!!!

That being said I like the quality of my transport better than computer based still.
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