Re: Cataloguing the Vinyl + Cd's

hank alrich <walkinay@xxxxxx> wrote:
Ed Edelenbos iPad <eded@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Cliff <clifflee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 4, 12:09 am, Mike Brown <rocko...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <56kkd7tkb66t8svrp5toq98h8ne2nt2...@xxxxxxx>,
Wilbur Slice <wil...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:









On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:25:16 +1030, Mike Brown
<rocko...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article
<ce73ea41-ea26-40cc-9180-393e533f9...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mouldytone <avmoul...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I still own all the LPs and cassettes that I`ve ever bought (and have
a turntable and cassette deck to play them on) but my downloaded music
is much more extensive. Finding specific artists or albums is time
consuming for all formats but what I wonder about most is if I can
keep up with the future digital storage formats. Next stage is solid
state as opposed to hard drive so it`ll be OK as long as I can keep on
top of it all and transfer all my digital stuff to the latest
technology. I`m speculating that I may eventually lose some of my
digital tracks but I`m always going to be able to play my LPs.
Tony Moulder

I'm wondering what the next "amazing new format" for recorded music is
going to be.

Something with no moving parts obviously.

That's been here for years. Only iPod Classics still have hard
drives. The Touch, Nano and Shuffle models (not to mention the
iPhones and iPads) don't have any moving parts.

The Next Big Thing is cloud storage - like iCloud, Amazon's Cloud
Drive or Google's Cloud Connect. Your music (or other data) is stored
on some server in "the Cloud" and is available to all of your various
devices automagically whenever you want. Buy it once from the iTunes
store on your iPhone when you're in New York and it automatically
shows up on your iPad and your home computer in Minneapolis. And it's
backed up and safe from crashes.

This stuff is still in its infancy and there will be all sorts of
improvements to how it works, but it's the way of the future.

Being an old fart, I was thinking of something for which you can walk
into a shop and plonk money down and walk out with something in your
hand.

MJRB

I don't know why people think vinyl is dead or that kids don't buy it
any more, this simply isn't the case :

http://www.whathifi.com/news/vinyl-sales-up-40-in-2011


http://drownedinsound.com/news/4143219-vinyl-sales-up-55-in-first-half-o
f-2011-radiohead-kol-tops-vinyl-chart

C

It might not be dead but 250k units isn't much of a dent in the market.
It's more of a novelty than an industry.

A couple years ago Levon Helm's album was the #1 Americana in sales for
the year, and the total was 26K units?

Some artists who would be well known to RMMGA'rs have product sales
totals near the 4K units mark.

Industries exist at many levels, and comparing Gaga sales to the lower
tier figures doesn't change the reality that selling a quarter-million
units of any recording these days is pretty cool.

Hell, lots of little bands are pressing 500 LP's along with their CD's
and downloadable offerings.

There is interesting activity afoot:

http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/070811vinyl

http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/102411vinyl

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/101811kids

Cliffs article suggested it was 250k across the board, not of a single
recording. Even with the numbers in the articles you refer to, I'd call
vinyl a novelty. I've certainly been wrong before but I'd expect the trend
won't continue.

Ed

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