Music industry continues to grow as CDs and Vinyl outperform digital downloads

[DukeJukem]

This article is exactly what I call misinterpreted information.

Only real information that you can gather from here is that streaming is king.

Digital downloads would actually increase If you actually owned what you paid for.

Exactly. These people think I'm going to give them 20 bones a month for something like TIDAL HiFi when I can't even download a physical copy of the song to put on my computer etc? Yea these companies must be as high as I'd like to be.

The entire point is I want to have physical copies of what I pay for, basically so I can use them the way I want to on a windows operating system. You companies really think I want to download your stupid app for windows 10 etc just so I can play the songs I supposedly own in your programs media player? Nope. I'd like to play the songs I pay for in AIMP, a real music player, not your garbage music player thats built into your garbage software.

I want physical copies of my songs so I can take a windows based device into my car and play lossless music directly from windows to my car through my badass sound system. all of this is how you properly listen to music unless you're in a studio itself.

The only thing we truly want to do with you, is you give us our music etc without us getting in trouble by the law. that's literally all we want from you, yet you don't even give us the freedom to own physical copies of the stuff we are paying for?

This is why people still steal music etc. because of stupid companies ran by stupid people who are in control of all of this garbage.

Considering I can listen to literally whatever music I want for free via youtube etc. somone please tell me the point of paying some morons a monthly fee when you can just download decent/actually pretty good copies from youtube? or from somewhere else, so you actually have control over your music.

No I'm not paying apple to put their trash software on my pc just to have physical copies of my songs. nah.

Make a website where I can just paypal for a lossless digital download of an album and maybe I'll consider giving you my money again. I seriously want to know how youtube can exist yet people still pay for music lol. that's like paying for food when theres a food pantry giving away steaks and chops everyday for free right down the block. makes no sense.

 

[wiyosaya]

And why do you think that man, somewhere around the 9th or 10th day, created audio equalizers?

Uh oh! Someone's going to have to re-write that part of the book. How could they possibly have forgotten such an important aspect?

Yeah, if you're dumb enough to buy music from Apple, that might be a distinct possibility. However, Amazon's (and I am loathe to praise Amazon in any respect), MP3s are not infected with DRM. You can copy and transfer them freely, even burn them to optical media. In many cases, you even get a free digital copy of many physical CDs, when you purchase them directly from Amazon itself.. (Not "Amazon Marketplace")

If you're referring to ripping from an iTunes or Amazon stream, as opposed to buying individual Mp3 files, I never indulge in the practice, so I can't comment directly on that aspect of obtaining files.

BTW, I'm pretty sure all demises have somewhat of a bitter aspect to them, even if only in the 1st person.

@wiyosaya See what I mean?

Its a pretty simple equation:
Garbage In = Garbage Out
I really don't see why some do not get it!

 

[Vresiberba]

What better intro image can one have for an article like this than a picture on a SME 3009, Classic!

 

[ET3D]

They mentioned (iTunes digital downloads) as some others strategy is that after death, your iTunes account is closed thus making all your purchased music collection not accessible to your relatives. So you only lease it, until our, hopefully, not so bitter demise.

I buy most of my music on iTunes and download it. It's DRM-free, so I think that my relatives, should they have a need of these songs, should be able to get their grubby hands on them.

 

[MaikuTech]

If I wanted an album or song, I would buy it directly.
If the music composer - music artist, bands offer the song directly from google, spotify, bandcamp or whatever.

Anything else like iTunez or god forbid Amazon prime music and videos, I would rather not pay them.

 

[Misagt]

Digital downloads would actually increase If you actually owned what you paid for.

What do you mean? How are the downloads not owned? I mean, as opposed to, say, a CD?

You don't actually own anything you buy these days. It's simply a license, in the form of a CD is is transferable as long as the CD has some value, but it will degrade and your not allowed to transfer your information from the CD to another format.

As for Digital services your license is only valid so long as the service provider remains. Now this isn't a hard rule but it is applied in most cases. We are nothing more then a modern slaves, we own nothing we have to give our labour for everything. The methods may of changed but the fact is we are still slaves.

 

[Lew Zealand]

Digital downloads would actually increase If you actually owned what you paid for.

What do you mean? How are the downloads not owned? I mean, as opposed to, say, a CD?

You don't actually own anything you buy these days. It's simply a license, in the form of a CD is is transferable as long as the CD has some value, but it will degrade and your not allowed to transfer your information from the CD to another format.

psst... dude.

...people been ripping CDs for over 2 decades...

pass. it. on!

 

[sac39507]

Went back to CD's after years of mp3s and love it. Might just be my imagination but CD's do seem to sound better, especially on an amplified system.