I hate to contribute to this CD vs. vinyl debate, but I should point
out that your reasoning's a bit off. People are still playing records
that were made in the '30s. I read in several places (WIRED and the
Dead Media list, among others) that the expected lifespan of CDs is
fairly short (the info's stored on aluminum, after all). Sure, you
could make MP3s of the CDs, but then you're left with gigs of
muddy-sounding music that you have to repeatedly copy from computer
to computer and back-up (all the while hoping MP3-playing software
isn't non-existent thirty years from now.)
Here's a couple of sources:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.09/saved.html?pg=3&topic=
http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/32/324.html
Maybe you'll want to keep those old Bee Gees LPs.
Jacob
quoted 8 lines Right on. Vinyl is cool if you don't care about preserving your music. I
>Right on. Vinyl is cool if you don't care about preserving your music. I
>mean every time you play a record, you are basically erasing it little by
>little. When I buy vinyl, I play it once into my computer and then Burn it
>to CD-R and file the vinyl away in a safe place. That's all it's really
>good for it seems, to collect. Because it wears out so easily.
>
>Peace,
>-AL
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