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BillT:
--- Quote from: jachin99 on October 05, 2017, 07:51:00 am ---How would everyone consume music? I don't see rows of CDs being sold at big box stores like there used to be, and I don't hear much about online music stores anymore either.
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Astonishing. In the last couple of weeks I've bought about 30 CDs and probably over 200 in the last year, mostly from Amazon, but there are a few other online CD retailers; really easy to find if you care to look.
I'm mainly interested in classical music which, even in the days of LP, has been appallingly badly served by the big retailers. As a general rule anything apart from pot boilers was special order so there was no reason to use brick & mortar retailers once CD was established and you didn't have to return bad pressings.
jachin99:
I know you can still buy CDs, and I still do but like you were saying about consumer behavior in general most people use streaming, and if it keeps up for another five or ten years there will be an entire generation of people who won't really know much about CDs because they didn't grow up buying them. Its not common to buy 30 CDs in a week or even one. I think CDs on Amazon and you tube would be my fallback also but I haven't bought a CD in a while either. There is also FM Radio, which I use everyday. For what its worth, I would be willing to pay a few bucks more a month to keep Spotify alive also.
blgentry:
--- Quote from: jachin99 on October 05, 2017, 12:59:58 pm ---I know you can still buy CDs, and I still do but like you were saying about consumer behavior in general most people use streaming, and if it keeps up for another five or ten years there will be an entire generation of people who won't really know much about CDs because they didn't grow up buying them.
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That's already happened. I know lots of people that have never purchased a CD.
--- Quote ---I think CDs on Amazon and you tube would be my fallback also but I haven't bought a CD in a while either. There is also FM Radio, which I use everyday. For what its worth, I would be willing to pay a few bucks more a month to keep Spotify alive also.
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So why and how do you use MC? It's primarily for music files that are local, like CD rips; not streaming. I know MC is capable of interacting with various streaming services and webcasts, but that seems to be a fringe use case.
Brian.
JimH:
--- Quote from: blgentry on October 05, 2017, 01:50:07 pm ---So why and how do you use MC? It's primarily for music files that are local, like CD rips; not streaming. I know MC is capable of interacting with various streaming services and webcasts, but that seems to be a fringe use case.
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Just so you're aware of it, JRiver has built and supported complete music services in the past. Beginning with Best Buy and MTV.
blgentry:
^ Hmm. I knew you guys had built windows programs for those two mega-companies. I thought it was desktop only. I didn't realize it encompassed the whole thing end to end. Neat.
Brian.
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