"Rob" wrote in message
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On 04/03/2011 17:29, David Looser wrote:
"Keith wrote in message
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"David wrote


I'm not happy at using a change in format as the way to make this
communication, especially if that leaves CD as the "junk" format
destined
to carry all the over-compressed rubbish. CD is a good format, I don't
want to see it thrown away that way.


CD is not a good format other than as a disposable one-time 'carrier';

Hardly "one-time", CD is a robust medium.


I think it had its uses, and now its time is up. 'One-time' means write
once, not read.


Rob, I was thinking more along the line of use them the one time to rip the
music into your 'library'.



it has been superceded by mass storage of 'virtual music' on hard disks
and soon, when the prices drop, large SS storage devices

Mass storage is useless for selling and transporting and individual
albums.


Ha! Have a look at 'iTunes'. Where do you think that music is kept, sold
from and stored to?


Quite.


Funny you should say that. Turntables and records, are, in fact still
produced.


I don't see them ever ending!


Hah! Quite why some people continue to insist that a *manifestly* poorer
quality medium sounds "better" is a mystery only a psychologist could
answer.


Yes, it has an oddness. Fact remains though, however uncomfortable that
makes you feel.


It ain't hard, is it? You either like and prefer vinyl or you don't - either
way it ain't a hanging offence!

:-)