VINYL LP's...
My blog today is about vinyl LP's. It's been 40 years since digital CD's hit the market. I remember they professed it would be the kiss of death to vinyl LP's. CD's are the best and the worst in the music industry all in the same breath. When first released around 1982, people were forced to switch gears and buy new players. People weren't happy. They went through upgrades in 8-track tapes, cassettes and digital cassettes.The good thing about CD's is you could fit more music on a CD than an LP. I knew a DJ who used to carry boxes and boxes of LP's to his gigs. When he switched to CD's it was only 2 cases.
Play a CD a thousand times and have no loss of quality. No scratching, no skipping. Physically, taking less space for storage, easy to send in the mail. Yet some people hated them.
CD's were easy to rip and download to a hard disk or digital storage. Now, DJ's only need a portable drive... or an iPhone with extended memory for hundreds of songs in their library.
Oh, if you don't have that special request, you can easily down load it from an online library through your cellphone data plan!
All these great things about CD's, but the 2 major drawbacks (that I can think of) is all the visual media is now compressed from 12" to 5" so albums selling merely because they have a cool looking cover has diminished and that warm analog sound of vinyl was replaced by a cold sterile digital representation.
Some people can hear the difference between the same music on an LP compared to a CD. For the most part, it's not important to 95% of the music listeners, so it is what it is.
That said, some artists actually have a small number of vinyl albums pressed and available for the music purists.
I know rap DJ's have CD digital turntables and emulate the 'scratch' sounds they popularized using old turntables.
I had forgotten about vinyl records for a while. Moving storage boxes last weekend I found my collection and oddly while walking through Walmart today, I found a rack of vinyl LP's as proof... vinyl ain't dead!
Comments (12)
I understand the sound thing but a .Flac, or .ogg and .ape can capture the same quality range unlike an mp3.
It is similar with clothing.
Youth has no base and no social function so they keep searching, Steam Punk, Cyber Punk, retro.
A lost culture at best.
No culture at worst.
Dark side of the moon still remains no 1.
They are stopping in the middle of songs for adds. I have deleted all YT from my devises. F meta is my new montra. lol
Long live vinyl!
Only when someone is doing a review and it's part of their review (where they are paid to promote a product) is the only time I see an ad.
don't run YouTube as an app. Only run it through Firefox.
Feel bad donate some money to the artist or purchase their merch.
Plus a few others.
No script you need to go into and allow either everything or just the basics to get a site running.
One I need to allow the site name and nothing else. Others more.
Plus you can go into Firefox privacy settings and put them as high as you want.
The addons do not apply to phone.
I have very few but very old music CDs.
Barely listen to them anyway.
I listen to a retro radio all day at work.
The best from the 60s to 90s non stop.
The good thing about technology is that one can restore rare tunes and pass forward to new generations to enjoy.
Many of my clients hire companies to install expensive media and whole-house security systems. Any of their CD or DVD library gets ripped and uploaded to a hard drive for instant play, usually controlled from their iPhones, but lately that's become old fashioned as on-demand subscriptions allow access to thousands of selections.