DesdinovaPremium
join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD | reply to BF69
Re: The Disc Is Dead...Sort Of. I agree completely and a number of the artists I work with are heading that route for a number of financial (thumbdrives can be wiped and reused if the contents on it doesn't sell) and artistic reasons (a fan can buy an empty drive from the artist and have it filled with specific tracks, interviews, hi-res album art, etc.). Those artists I know that HAVEN'T looked into flash drives are usually interested when I suggest it to them.
But here's where it gets kinda interesting: speaking to fans I find that quite a few of them immediately burn the wave files onto a normal Red Book CD so they can lend it to friends, play it in their cars, etc. So it seems that even the cutting-edge folks sometimes drift back into older habits. |
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| Nothing about older habits. A solid, non-erasable media is still viable for music. Thumb drives are great, but as you said the data inside is volatile. When you buy or burn a CD it's there and it stays there. There is a lot to be said about knowing your favorite artist and your favorite album from them won't go bye-bye because of a computer glitch or human error. |
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