I use to enjoy having backups, but over the years I have built a collection that is far too large to keep backups of everything, right now as I look in my iTunes library, there are ten thousand 8 hundred and 32 songs. So I keep them on an external hard drive, as well as a NAS server drive. As for my movies, I keep them on the same nas, 1800 movies that I'm able to put on my TV wirelessly. So CD's and DVD's are still around, but I think since we keep so many of each, movies and music, having a hard copy isn't always beneficial to all of us. I give it 2 more years and everything will be digital. JMO
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Sure, I think there'll be more net books, and ultra light laptops without cd drives, but I think that, people who buy a workhorse laptop or desktop will still want a cd/dvd-rom drive as part of the package for some time. This is just my own observation, and ymmv. On Mar 21, 2011, at 10:33 PM, Frank Carmickle wrote: > Hi > > You can get high quality tracks from http://hdtracks.com. > > Enjoy > --FC > > > On Nov 18, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: > >> ok the problem is where do you buy higher resolution music? sacd is >> dead as is dvda because the playback equipment was so overpriced so >> what's better than cd that I can get my hands on, especialy music i >> actually want to listen to. most of todays' music isn't worth my time >> to listen to. I don't care to listen to gangster rap or the g this >> and g that trash lol I like music that is music and the for the most >> part forgot how tw to do that sometimes in the 90s. the last new cd >> I bought was kelly pickler, before that was a replacement for my rsh >> presto disc that got lost god knows where >> >> On Nov 18, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Scott Granados wrote: >> >>> CD disks do not necessarily sound better than downloads. >>> >>> It depends on how much compression is used and I'm highly skeptical as to what the human ear can detect anyway. >>> >>> I see value in the digital verses analog discussion but not in one digital verses another. The ear is not nearly as good and the brain is even stranger when it comes to audio signal processing. >>> >>> The whole CD thing is over stated. Remember that the sample rate of a standard CD is only 44.1 khz meaning that you fall way in to the audio range and you don't nearly have enough samples per wave. If you like listening to sawtooth waves that's fine but for musicality not so good. You're way in to the audio range when you get to that 10 points per wave point and I'm not convinced that's even enough to accurately represent an analog wave. The newer higher sample rate recording methods, even with compression in my ear sound better than old slow bit rate CD but thqt's me. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Nov 17, 2010, at 10:32 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>> >>>> lol. Yeah youare one of the very few throw backs. Hehahaha! Just giviing you a hard time because I can. >>>> anyways 99 C is plenty for a track in my opinion and hte quality is just fabulious on a regular system. >>>> >>>> Take care. >>>> >>>> S >>>> >>>> On Nov 17, 2010, at 20:26, Michael Thurman <kb7...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I thought that i tunes let you download as many times as you want >>>>> once you pay for a track... my annoyance is I tunes doesn't have a >>>>> refresh my library option so if you have paid for tracks it >>>>> remembers and replaces them if you loose them I shouldn't have to >>>>> keep track of every track i ave purchased in order to get them >>>>> back. I also think that 99c a track is still too much, no cheaper >>>>> to buy an album worth of tracks and I don't even get a disc. real >>>>> cds still sound better than downloads a home, of course i still >>>>> enjoy my vinyl collection as well so I'm a throwback of course i >>>>> still have a 2 channel pioneer system sitting here in front of me >>>>> pioneer amp bose 2.1 bookshelf speakers, technics turntable ect >>>>> lol :) >>>>> >>>>> On Nov 15, 2010, at 1:32 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Ricardo, >>>>>> >>>>>> for me its the quality of the compression from the download that is the issue that keeps me buying CD's. >>>>>> >>>>>> When I can get a download at a higher rate, up in the 700kbps range I'll be happier, and one that let's me download the item within reason as many times as I like, unlike Apple. >>>>>> >>>>>> At this time most downloads are 320kbps or less, often less, and yet I rip in double this. >>>>>> >>>>>> can I hear the difference, not always, but often yes, granted not on my iPhone headset, but on a good quality home entertainment system, or keeping with the spirit of the conversation of cars, in the back of my Merc S Classs yes, it certainly is notable. >>>>>> >>>>>> Its essential that the download providers get their act together and up the quality of the download, and allow me to download my collection say at least twice a year or so in case I accidently delete something. >>>>>> >>>>>> once I can do this I'll switch to downloads only. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 14 Nov 2010, at 07:57, Ricardo Walker wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Its all ready changing. People aren't buying CDs anymore. I dare you to find a record store. lol. 15 years ago, they were everywhere. The majority of people download music. By next year, music albums downloaded, will pass albums sold in stores. the change is coming. People will cling to the CD like they clung to the cassette tape. But once people stop building the hardware to play them, people will have no choice but to move on. >>>>>> >>>>>> Ricardo Walker >>>>>> rwalker...@gmail.com >>>>>> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Nov 13, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Chenelle Hancock wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> hi, heather, eric, sara and everyone on the list I have to say >>>>>>> that for over eighteen years or so i have been using cd's as my mode of music choice. however, it has only been the past eight months or so that i have getting my music through itunes and transferring my music library of over 500 cd's to my computer. i still have them all though. due to the fact i still infer that technology can crash at anytime and you have to have a back up to your back up. if you know what i mean. also i have relatives who are still in the age of the stereo system/ cd player age. so when we have party's we often use someof my cd's to listen to etc... >>>>>>> i don't think that cd's will go out of date as fast as tape did back in the late to mid eighty's and early nineties. despite the fact that i have saved some of my music to my external hard drive i have not stored all of it as of yet. but i do plann on doing so. >>>>>>> chenelle >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > Egun On, Lagunak! 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