Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
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| Only themselves to blame  Failure to produce a product that can be differentiate by the consumer. Most of the music produced by the record labels, by its nature does not degrade when copied using lossy codecs. There is no benefit to purchasing the music on CD or SACD quality media. In fact many record labels sell music based on the musicians appearance rather than their musical skills. Many years ago music lovers purchased music based on the musicians performance skills. I knew one classical music lover that claimed they could tell the name of a musician playing a violin solo on a classical recording even if it was not on the liner notes. They spent about $50,000.00 on a high end stereo system. Shortly after the Compact Disc was introduced many consumers replaced their vinyl collection. Those days are over. No longer can the record labels have crap fly off the record store shelves as soon as it is put on displayed. The record labels wrote their own epitaph when they failed to produce quality music where the customer can hear the difference between a low bit rate MP3 and an SCAD. The music industry needs to look at the automobile industry. The difference between a Toyota Camry and a Lexus ES350 is small but consumers will pay a lot more for a Lexus than a Toyota. |
