Will CDs be a thing of the past soon?!


Question: Technology is taking us places we never dreamed we could go. These days obtaining music is as easy as getting a snack from the fridge. With the Internet, buying music has never been so convenient with more and more people conforming to online purchasing. Whether we download songs illegally for free, which it seems most of us are doing, or legally at a small price, do you think this will eventually result in CDs dying out completely?

Myself, when a new album comes out that I want to get, I like actually being able to hold something real in my hands, a disc, with a compact booklet and CD case. Not only does it feel like I am supporting my favourite artists, but I actually have something to show for my love of music. If you just get a bunch of songs off the Net and straight on your iPod, then that's it. You are letting down the artist, and it's just not as fun as going out, hunting for the CD you're after and listening to the music the proper way.

What do you guys think?


Answers: Technology is taking us places we never dreamed we could go. These days obtaining music is as easy as getting a snack from the fridge. With the Internet, buying music has never been so convenient with more and more people conforming to online purchasing. Whether we download songs illegally for free, which it seems most of us are doing, or legally at a small price, do you think this will eventually result in CDs dying out completely?

Myself, when a new album comes out that I want to get, I like actually being able to hold something real in my hands, a disc, with a compact booklet and CD case. Not only does it feel like I am supporting my favourite artists, but I actually have something to show for my love of music. If you just get a bunch of songs off the Net and straight on your iPod, then that's it. You are letting down the artist, and it's just not as fun as going out, hunting for the CD you're after and listening to the music the proper way.

What do you guys think?

CDs will become obsolete. Maybe not in the very near future, but probably during this generation. It's mainly because we have the technology to purchase songs and albums online, and gives users the freedom of picking and choosing only the tracks they want, so they don't have to purchase the entire albums. Even websites like Amazon (who has sold millions of CDs over the years) has started letting users buy songs.

However, you still see some music stores selling vinyl records. So CDs won't completely die out.

I think they will be, and I don't even know what the next medium could possibly be. Current technology will always be moving on to the next thing before many people get a grasp of the present thing.

What are 'CD's? LOL! Just joking.

It's a bit like books. You can read books online, but they will never match up to the real thing. I like being able to hold the things that are mine.

i feel the same, got to hold some hardware in my hand, maybe that people call it old fashion but I also would like to support musicians.
maybe the CD will die or better it will be replaced by some better carrier but die? don't think so.
for me as a music lover and lover of a very good sound as well, got a very fancy stereo, a mp3 file msuic is a disgrace. it just does not sound right, mp3 or other is compressed, reduced to the minimum music
is that what we want? is our hearing becoming a sort of organ that will disappear in the future because we don't need it anymore?

We are trained to be consumerists, and we are trained good.
If it all came down to Microsoft,RIAA and WIPO then any Music or Art or Literature would be, pay to use once, pay again to use twice, ad infinitum.
I have not bought nor downloaded any music since Metallica,RIAA,Microsoft/Apple put DRM into it.
The artists have to pay ISP,Microsoft/Apple,RIAA,Producers and any sleaze in between that snag a .10 of a percentage.
Some form of movable or mobile media will always have to be available, CDs or something like them, for our Sail Cars, Sail Boats, Sail Boards, bars, river rafting,Space Ships and so on.

MP3 is to CD what CD is to vinyl . It offers more convenience, full stop.

I doubt CD will die out as its a durable medium and people still want to hold their CDs.

A friend of ripped his whole collection to his and was going to ditch his CDs. I said what id the music police ask you for proof of ownership, His CDs are now in a safe place.

CDs still allow artisits to present there work isn a distinctive setting (check out Sigur Ros cds)

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They probably will, but I really hope not.



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