Have CDs/ records become less collectable? Did MP3 trigger this?

Question

Notes: Just in case anybody doubts that CDs were once collectable (the rare items, at least) - yes, they were (a decade ago) and there were even speciality shops for that.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Cd's are losing popularity. But until Apple and their Ipod rules the world, cd's will still be around for another 10 years.

Anyway,

Bands are making a lot more special edition cd's in the last 5 years. This is probably to spark cd sales, and to make sure that their band stays popular. Alot of special edition stuff that bands put out are only for cd's. A band makes more money from a cd, than from a download.

Answer 2

The advent of MP3's and Ipod technology has simply transformed the way people collect music. People have turned instead to collecting downloads. There still are a lot of rare CD's and records, the general focus has just changed. There will always be a small marker for original LP's and rare CD's, if for nothing else, the booklets and liner notes. Antoher problem with true collectability is that these days (and for the last 15-20 years) CD's were over-produced. Many people who owned CD's before are converting them to MP3 and discarding thier CD's at used music stores and Goodwill. This means that there is a huge overstock of unwanted CD's. This is not good for the collector who hopes to find his item "rare." Even the "rare" CD's get thrown into the trash heap. A keen person with true knowledge of what is rare and what is not can still actually make a windfall buying and reselling CD's at garage sales and thrift stores. They just need to know what they are doing and be willing to dig through 1,000's of unwanted CD's.

Answer 3

Hi... it's the old atoms versus bits discussion... Atoms Library book - once borrowed can't be viewed by anyone else until it is returned. Record or CD - must be in the posession of the owner to be used, if damaged, you're outta luck. Bits HTTP - can be viewed by a virtually limitless number of people without impact to others. .MP3 - same as HTTP. Now, I have all of the abovementioned, however, I am really disappointed by the sample rates of most .MP3 players (128K). MP3 is "lossy" compression versus straight up .WAV, .aiff, or the like. I CAN hear the difference. In my recording studio I use 192K sampling at 24 bit. It's kinda hard to listen to that beautiful, crisp signal 'smooshed' using .MP3 compression... However, most people really can't tell the difference or are willing to sacrifice the quality for the convenience. CDs and DVDs are becoming a thing of the past, but I think you still have a couple of good years ahead before the students in undergraduate school can no longer remember CDs. Vinyl records are another story altogether!! :)

Answer 4

well a lot of the time, i rather have a CD cuz then you can give it to friends, and you can put it into a lot more things (like youre car or the computer or a regular CD player) and it gives you lyrics right with the CD that you don't have to go searching all over the web for them.

Answer 5

although mp3's have "hurt" the music ind I think this will make cd's and viyl even more collectible as they become more rare or less of an option

Answer 6

Yes MP3 triggered this and all the downloading from Limewire and Aries and other free musik sites.

Answer 7

Very soon video and music stores will not exist, everything will be computer downloaded. In predict in 10 years or less.

Answer 8

No I still listen to them and I use them to for MP3 music fodder :D

Answer 9

yea, but CD's/ records still rock....I wish all CD's came in a big fat record sleve......

and your that girl, that has an avatar just like that, but instead its a girl head...huh?

Answer 10

i think that the mp3 players, have helped, and also our technology, because, we now can download free albums, from the internet, and copy them from other people