Sony to close CD plant....
 

....in my area. How about that? The CD is now on it's downward spiral, just like the cassette tape, 8-track and LP. Of course, the writing was on the wall, but I was a little sad to hear about that today. When I was younger, I laughed at my friend's father for the care and pride he took in his LP collection. I guess that I am about to go that way with all my CDs.

http://www.radioworld.com/article/112178

so is the CD going to be replaced by digital audio files?
or will there be another type of physical media?

The article cited the increase of MP3 sales. The IPod is the future, and the future is here. Personally, I prefer having a physical disc, but the days of those are clearly numbered.

Vinyl LP, singles, Maxi LP cassette tape, have tons, which is clearly of interest since this material is not available on either CD or another, I can partly understand their point of view as safe based on economic perspectives, as an example,but in the car is the CD or HDD, via the auxiliary input is just as well

Yes, I agree that blank discs will continue to be produced for the purpose of data storage, but I imagine that most of the record companies will shut down most of their physical production within the next few years.

Regarding storage of multimedia, which is done all the time, with current technology is the "decent" and in a few years well, as little of the factories that you mentioned in the topic, will be reduced clearly.

Numbered?
It all depends, its amazing how much vinyl is still produced and sold considering its death was announced long ago.

And as things advance?
Soon the storage of information wll be done in such a way that when Stuff hits the fan?
We will be the next Atlantis.
Just a myth and speculation.

:up::up::up:

You can have both.
http://www.magix.com/us/audio-cleaning-lab/detail/

Budda

Surprised they have lasted this long :yep:

They said that about tape recorders as well. That was 10 and more years ago. They still live, though in small numbers.

And then there is the classics market, which still lacks the widely used distribution via downloads - last but not least due to purists missing that small loss of quality in sound (and old copyright issues of older records considered as exceptionell or benchmarks).

Personally I think that a high-sampled OGG or MP3 on a good player (I use a Sanza Fuze with 16 GB) with good headphones, is satisfying for most music, especially when consuming it as entertainment only. Indeed it sounds very good. And still for some classical music and some other records I still prefer a HiFi and a bigger headphone.

Maybe true; I can't say. But I can say that just today I finished downloading the Teldec Bach 2000 set - all 153 CDs worth.

I agree, but for me it's true even of the classical stuff. My ears are still as good as they were forty years ago, but my brain never let me be a true audiophile. I just can't tell the difference between an MP3 and a full lossless flac file. I guess that's a good thing because even a 1TB hard drive runs out of space sooner or later.

I don't own a portable media player. Listening to Beethoven's 6th as I type this, and having it all at home is good enough for me.

You're both right, Sky and Steve; there will always be room for collectors. One thing that I do note is that the fidelity decreases with each new format. The cassette tape and compact disc were both of lower fidelity than the LP due to the material used in the case of the former, and the method of digital production used in the latter. The MP3 is, typically, of even less fidelity than the CD, so it's popularity is really a case of convenience over quality. You can push a button and get a recording instantly; no way that a physical disc was going to compete with that.

Speaking of LPs I only have one of note, although I have a couple dozen in total.

http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/66/BigBambu.jpg

Complete with the giant rolling paper from 1972.