Comments on: Music lovers still prefer CDs over digital downloads

By: HP

HP — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:41:54 +0000

if you read this article from the guardian it helps you understand that CD sales are still dominont over digital sales even if its an all time low.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/22/digitalmusic-drm

By: aion gold

aion gold — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:29:52 +0000

I agree with Ralph. For me collecting music cd’s of your idol, feels like heaven plus the fact that they include some pics. This is just like collecting Cd’s of world of warcraft and soon will be collecting their mags plus the Aion online.

@John, maybe because of the competition with video game industry, actually sales of video games also drop.

By: a non e mous

a non e mous — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:23:22 +0000

I’d like to take exception to Tim Walker (quoted in the article above) who described CDs as a “bridge into the digital world”.

Has he failed to realise that CD is actually digital? Or that the digital world arrived with the advent of CDs to consumers?

By: Rimmer

Rimmer — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:00:16 +0000

DavidB, I think you will find that the vast majority of Download services are now DRM free, so you can use them where ever and whenever you want (note: this does not apply to streaming or subscription services), so they offer the same (or possibly even more) portability as a CD does. What downloads don’t offer is the value added content that CDs have, such as cover art, notes & lyrics, and often added media content such as videos or images. Plus CDs have a considerably higher sound quality and a resale value.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:44:39 +0000

You can sell your used CDs if you are tired of them. You can’t do that with your digital downloads.

In some cases, CDs are a better deal than digital downloads. I have seen The Beatles #1 CD selling for as low as $9.99 around the holidays. You cannot legally purchase the Beatles on digital download.

But for buying just one song, digital downloads have the advantage….even though you can’t resell them.

By: JohnJ

JohnJ — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:18:32 +0000

Because the quality of many modern releases stinks. Too overproduced, not much originality, too focused on commercial viability instead of artistic creativity.

By: John

John — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:05:02 +0000

I’m happy to hear this, but then why are CD sales so low?

By: DavidB

DavidB — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:36:45 +0000

Consumers are smart enough to recognize that the quality of streaming and even downloaded music is still crap compared to CD. Plus you can play that CD anywhere, via various DRM schemes they have locked up the content you download/stream so it is too hard for the average person to transport. Plus as the recent Amazon ebook fiasco illustrates, there is much about DRM’d digitally distributed content to worry about, such as revocation. Just pop a CD in a player and it works, no fuss no muss.