Melanie Tucker must die!

[mindbend]

Cheese,

I do not know the legal aspects of it, and I wonder the same thing. However, I could see a scenario where other companies would NOT have to comply. The only reason I say that is because when Microsoft recently had to rework how Flash plays in Explorer, no other browser company had to comply, even though it's the same issue for them.

[Sunnz]

Originally Posted by mindbend

Thanks Sunnz for backing me up. Exactly. You have to physically make effort to buy the CD. You also have to store it somewhere, taking up space. If you want to nitpick over the math, I suspect it's actually way more than ten times the effort.

Personally, in terms of the best possible listening experience, I'd take an LP over anything. Better headroom, smoother sound. I've A/B'ed LP versus CDs and vastly preferred LP. The problem is—it's inconvenient as hell. And that's what the entire iPod experience is. Convenience. Otherwise EVERYBODY would just buy CDs and rip them.

But again, you get a lot more if you go buy the CD - the printed artwork, quality packaging and CD, you know, the material stuff... if you really liked your artist, you would think it is actually enjoyable to do the extra work of storing it, talking to the sale-man, etc.

What's LP?

[Lt Major Burns]

'What's LP'

ho ho ho... LP is a Long Player, or a full album... a 12" vinyl, basically.

[Sunnz]

LP is probably better than the DRM stuff!!! If you know what I mean...

[Lt Major Burns]

it's said that vinyl can reach frequencies not attainable by digital music, cd or otherwise. digital is either 1 or 0. analogue could theoretically go inbetween

[Natobasso]

Wikipedia still doesn't have any verified technical data but does say this:
The "warmer" sound of analog records is generally believed on both sides of the argument to be an artifact of harmonic distortion and signal compression by the analog system. This phenomenon of a preference for the sound of a beloved lower-fidelity technology is not new; a 1963 review of RCA Dynagroove recordings notes that "some listeners object to the ultra-smooth sound as … sterile … such distortion-forming sounds as those produced by loud brasses are eliminated at the expense of fidelity. They prefer for a climactic fortissimo to blast their machines …"

Article URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_r...onse_and_noise

Harmonic Distortion Article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_distortion

Signal Compression Article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_compression

Since digital audio seems to remove these 'defects' in LP audio quality, I'd say it also removes the 'benefits' which are a more natural sound and a closer 'connection' to the music played live, which is more dynamic than any recording can ever capture.

[Lt Major Burns]

yeah that's what i mean... much better put!

[fryke]

Originally Posted by mindbend

Otherwise EVERYBODY would just buy CDs and rip them.

I bet if you ask 100 iPod owners on the street, most of them have most of their tracks ripped from CDs, not downloaded from iTunes. (And I'm not including piracy here.)