Admittedly I am an old fart! Now that that is outta the way lets dig on... I got something inside my soul when I was a kid to go hunting around at music stores to either find what I set out for or to let the hours wyle away while I listened to the overhead and grooved with my fellow audiophiles. Hopefully getting turned onto something that I hadn't come there for. It seems to me something is missing if you are able to jack into a port and have all that want at your whimsy with the ability to store it for many weeks/months to pass. N E 1 L's wit me?
Yea man, I understand what your saying. Albums are more then one song, and you wont get into the deep tracks you've never heard of. If you don't have the whole album. Can you imagine just downloading one song off Dark Side, or Closing of Winterland? The flow is gone when you buy a single song instead of an album. No Album Art. No flow. No expeirience like you said. It's just not what I'm into. But rather kids listining to itunes hit singles then nothing at all i guess Just not my style.
i dunno, i loved my ipod because i could listen to a different live pink floyd or tool or zeppelin show, as well as any of their complete albums and over 5000 other songs which were all part of full albums or whole shows. rarely did i just put a single on the ipod. i prefer the whole thing. and ipods hold your album art and everything else. imagine having 5 days straight of pink floyd without hearing the same song twice, in your pocket, with 200 other artists music to choose from at the same time. it's a great feeling to be alive and have your music library with you at all times.
ive got 7000 songs. Most are from full albums i got from the library in my town. Its great to get full albums of anything you want within weeks. My iPod helps alot though my collection has vastly outgrown its capacity.
I love my iPOD Im addicted to my iPOD I thank the inventor of the iPOD If my iPOD ever broke, I would die. The End.
Actually, it used to bother me. I was able to download Dark Side Of The Moon, Live/Dead, and In Search Of The Lost Chord as one file MP3's, which was great. But I'm really not bothered anymore by the quick skip in tracks. The only time it really interupts flow for me is, when I'm listening to Steppin' Out With The Grateful Dead. For example "Truckin'/Drums/The Other One/El Paso/The Other One/Wharf Rat", great flow between songs, and it does bother me a little bit, but usually I forget about the skip a couple seconds after the fact. But I still love that I can carry around my music collection in one little device. And since my older brother, THE COMPUTER NAZI!!!!!, has gotten rid of any downloading programs that I may use to get music easily, I have started to buy CD's again, and I've come to realize that I really enjoy going to record stores and buying the music instead of downloading it illegally, where it can be of shitty quality. I've actually bought 9 CD's in the last week alone, so I feel really good that I'm doing something positive for the great people that made the music that I love so much, instead of stealing their honorable creations.
Record albums are beautiful. recorded in all analog gear, the sound is warm and real, because the sound was never put into a digital format. Digital music as of now, can never have the "whole song".....music in the digital world is sampled. CD's are sampled at 44.1 khz, meaning there is 44 thousand plus "snapshots" (for lack of a better word) taken a second. that is alot, but as you guessed, it missed alot stuff. that stuff may not mean alot to the general consumer, but a lover of music feels in his/her heart and soul when he/she hears a record, that a record sounds better, it sounds real. but Records, scratch, break, warp and eventually will die. you can't carry a record player with you everywhere and listen to it. and ipod is a convenient way for people to have music everywhere. if i didn't have an ipod, life would suck. CDwalkmans skip like a bastard, they are huge and you need CD's.....with an ipod you can have days worth of your favorite music....mine is full of shows....lots of shows........
I had an ipod mini which I broke, so I bought the ipod video. not only do i have my favorite songs, i have my movies too. so far ive put wedding crashers and rent on it. but im looking to add warriors. its such a beautiful machine. and buying the cds and dvds are much wanted with me. id like to support the band.
Yeah, that's true, I myself own and listen to many a vinyl album. But do you realize how much of the clarity of the sound that they had to sacrifice to put it on vinyl? Like Elton John's "Tumbleweed Connection". On the song "Where To Now St. Peter?", they employ a reverb effect on Elton's voice on the chorus, but when they put it on vinyl, it came to sound like his vocals were double tracked, which they really were back then to make a reverb or echo effect. But vinyl removed a lot of the reverb, making the mixes somewhat dull. On CD that problem is corrected. Just make sure that if you copy music from CD to MP3 to put on your iPod, that it's at a high quality (at least 192-320 kbps) and not the bare minimum of good sound (128 kbps).
I can see your point and the point made about records. BUT i think Ipods will save music. Think about it. It takes the power OUT of the hands of Mtv and bastards like them to tell everyone what they should like. So much great music that would have otherwise been overlooked is growing in recognition due to file-sharing and mp3 players. Its not all bad.
I spoke to someone who has 7,000+ songs in MP3 format. If you calculate that in CDs, can you imagine how many CDs that person would have had to buy? So we are listening to more music than ever before, but in a way we are more dissatisfied with our music than before. There are 50+ digital download services, with more appearing every week. I've got to admit it's getting better....a little better, all the time......
maybe that's a good thing though... it could encourage bands to think about their music more. It's the capatilist method in a way, but I spose if the end result is better music, I'm all for it. I think the only record that's kept me satisfied for 9 years so far is Radioheads OK Computer.. I'd marry it if I could
bloody ipod sheep... why couldn't some of you have done what i did, by getting an mp3 player that ISN'T an ipod? bloody fads... bloody CONSUMERIST TRENDS!!!
haha... point taken but then again I use a PSP to play my mp3s, that's still consumerist is it not? where does the line blur? hmm... I think the name 'ipod' has subtle resonances with the name 'god'.. that's my twisted mind for ya though
very true. i guess, i said "records" because that is the purest analog music most people know. the best analog is the original master tape, recorded in the studio with all analog boards, outboard geat, great preamps, and beautiful tape. but tape warps, get old and it hard as hell to edit. the digital age has made our wildest musical dreams possible. well almost. but if i didn't have protools, i don't know what i'd do....
I don't like iPODs. There just some fad that ruins the music. When you buy a CD, you get the music, the 'artist thank yous,' the album art and the chance to hold and worship something of subtance. Yeah it maybe more convinent to have an iPOD but it betrays the music and it's a total sell out because how many albums can you download on an iPOD, to be a true fan you got to buy all of the songs not just the ones you like. And for CD life stuff, thats only if you don't take care of it. I've dropped a CD down a rock incline and it still played when I got down to it. (random but true)
