[78-L] copyright

[Michael Biel]

Jack Palmer wrote:
> I'm sorry Kristjan but you are not selling me.  I still prefer to buy my 
> music in a store.  I guess I'm still a Luddite.
>                                     Jack
>
>   


But you have to have a store!!!!!!  Rolling Stone (in the article I just 
mentioned in my previous posting) cites that 2,680 shops have closed 
since 2005!  I have no stores with CDs except Wal-Mart for 60 miles.   
Ironically, I drove that 60 miles today to get my pacemaker checked, and 
spent a few hours in Joseph-Beth Books which has survived both BestBuy 
and Barnes & Noble, and still has some ASV Living Era CDs in stock that 
I needed.  I bought 8 of 'em, but I didn't see anyone else buying any 
CDs or DVDs for the hour I spent in the department.  There are still a 
few more that I need that are still available on the internet.  So 
beyond having to have a store, that store has to have stock of what you 
want.  Prefer to buy music in a store all you want, but unless you are 
LUCKY you will not find what you want anywhere near as easily as you 
will on the internet.  I'm not talking about downloading, I'm talking 
about buying a physical CD. 

(I've tried changing the subject heading already, but this earlier one 
keeps on popping back.)

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com 


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kristjan Saag" <saag at telia.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 9:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] copyright
>
>
> Jack Palmer wrote:
>   
>> I hate having to download music and then not getting a
>> decent sound when I do.  I want a nice CD that I can play on my CD player
>> downstairs, my computer upstairs and in my auto.  Just because ,these
>> youngsters and technocrats are taking over, does that mean we have to give
>> up our music.  I love my 78s but they certainly won't play in all the
>> places
>> I am wanting music.
>>     
> --
> It's easier than ever to check sound quality on a recording you buy. You
> don't have to sit around in the record shop, you can do it in front of your
> computer and scan through the samples. Some dealers offer you the whole tune
> as sample and with some  practice you can tell the difference between crap
> and quality, even if the sample is presented at 28 kbpm.
>
> Most of the material offered as downloads is still the same that has been
> available on CD. What we lose, in sound quality, between the linear sound on
> CD and the 320 kbps or so of a mp3 file is a minor problem for 78 rpm
> recordings.
>
> It takes you five minutes to download an album and another five minutes to
> burn it onto a CD that you can take downstairs or upstairs. Those ten
> minutes wouldn't have taken you halfway to your nearest record store, I
> guess.
>
> Give up your music? No, you've just started to share it with a larger
> audience who has other priorities as to distribution and retail. And thanks
> to the youngsters and technocrats we can now get hold of, practically, any
> piece of music that has been recorded. Need a sound file of Hanka
> Ordonówna's "Milosc Ci Wszystko Wybaczy"? I'll send it to in a jiffy.
>
> Besides: the CD never was a sexy medium. Neither was the cassette. Files
> aren't either. But as complement to vinyl and shellac: much better. They
> don't clatter. There's no plastic film around them that you have to struggle
> with. And if you're lucky you can buy one track at a time, discarding the 21
> dull tunes on the "Best Of..." album and get the 22nd one that you like.
>
> So let's look at the bright side of downloads and start to work for better
> sound quality. We're only in the beginning. Remember the sound of early
> CD's? Today "CD quality" means the highest quality for most people.
> In a few years time broadband space will allow us to deal easily with wav
> files instead of mp3s. Some dealers already offer music in wav format. As
> customers we should ask for this opportunity every time we buy. That will
> enhance the overall standard of downloads and facilitate demands for decent
> transfers.
> Kristjan