What's funny is that they're all focussed on trying to make regular cd's
secure by controlling everything at the hardware level, like they'd like
to go back and make analog taping illegal, they call it the analog
hole. What they should be spending their energy on is making DVD Audio
decent, but they refuse to create a standard. Even if DVD Audio were
rippable, the result would be waaaay less quality than the original, while
I've alwasy thought the sound of CDs was never that great. You'd think the
fact that they're a monopoly would make it easier for them to create a new
audio standard, but they just can't agree.
Had they viewed mp3s as simply a way to preview a track and then sell DVD
Audio for $20 a pop they could make up for lost cd sales, but
unfortunately they're not that bright.
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 kingmob@nmt.edu wrote:
quoted 93 lines I really love your idea about upping the quality standard. I do think
> I really love your idea about upping the quality standard. I do think
> that would help a bit, maybe not too much, as people don't seem to care
> about the lesser quality of mp3s compared to cds, but I'm really aching
> for better quality, and that sounds like a great way to help push it
> through. Are there any real plans for upping the standard? Anything the
> industry will actually promote? I know we kinda have supercds and dvd
> audio, but I never see that stuff around, except for maybe one or two at
> Tower Records, and I don't see anyone promoting that.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Brian Redfern wrote:
>
> > Any kind of art music is a labor of love, if you want to make big $$ in
> > the US, you have to be in rap/rnb, its the only part of the industry that
> > makes money. My girlfriend hangs out with Snoop Dog, and he certainly
> > isn't hurting on record sales, ultimately an indie artist only needs 5,000
> > fans to buy 1 cd a year to make a living from just producing, but that's
> > much easier said than done. Snoop is definitely the exception, and his
> > secret is that he produces his own work, so he does everything very low
> > budget compared to other major label artists like say Pink, who are stuck
> > with a million different people having points on them. The problem is that
> > the majors are seriously alienating the everyday fans, instead of going
> > after mp3, they should be creating a hi-fi dvd audio standard, so you can
> > have a handheld dvd player which plays back at 24 bit, 96000Hz, mp3s are
> > definitely NOT a "perfect digital copy", what the labelsx fail
> > to understand is that p2p programs are slow and more than half the time
> > you lose the connection before you can finish downloading the track
> > anyway.
> >
> > On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, omz wrote:
> >
> > > >In a message dated 7/30/2002 3:50:54 AM Central Daylight Time,
> > > >jpklein@telocity.com writes:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> >>as has recently been ascertained, the subscribers of this list are
> > > >> >>collectively spending an astronomical sum of money buying new records
> > > >> >>and cds each month. how is it possible that there's nothing to say
> > > >> >>about them?
> > > >
> > > >what i'd like to know is why the labels and artists don't seem to be making
> > > >any money
> > >
> > > Yeah, seeing as how Mike Paradinas commented recently that Planet-Mu
> > > stuff sells on average around 800 cd copies per release, it makes me
> > > wonder if anyone buys Mu stuff that's NOT on this list...
> > >
> > > --
> > > :::my spine is the bassline:::
> > >
> > > ^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-
> > > omz
> > >
> > > beautamous loaf recordings
> > > http://www.hotweird.com/loaf/
> > >
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