Will CDs ever make a comeback?

Will CDs ever make a comeback?

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no.
there are two reasons vinyl is the chosen throwback format:
1) the ritual of putting a vinyl record on and dropping the needle is more satisfying
2) the large surface area better allows for appreciation of cover art.

CDs don't have the advantage of the surface area for cover art as a secondary medium to be appreciated, whilst still taking up a lot of space unnecessarily. plus, jewel cases are devil spawn. even if you take good care of them, they may still get scuffed, but be honest - how many of your CD cases have a snapped hinge, a fracture in the middle of the case, and/or broken spokes that don't properly hold the disc? how many of your cover/liner notes tattered and dog-eared from pulling them out of the awkward case to read?

CDs are and awful medium and I'm happy to see them go. the odd digipak is fine, esp for collectors items (I have an original copy of Dopesmoker for example), but other than that there's no real merit to them.

>CDs don't have the advantage of the surface area for cover art as a secondary medium to be appreciated, whilst still taking up a lot of space unnecessarily. plus, jewel cases are devil spawn. even if you take good care of them, they may still get scuffed, but be honest - how many of your CD cases have a snapped hinge, a fracture in the middle of the case, and/or broken spokes that don't properly hold the disc? how many of your cover/liner notes tattered and dog-eared from pulling them out of the awkward case to read?

so vinyl is better because its bigger and the case is not made of plastic?

ok dude....

Some kind of longer lasting format I think for sure. Kids are happy with disposable downloads and that leaves us in a wild west of the physical formats currently because kids always drove demand in the past.

They work well as a digital backup for your HDD collection going bad (but that also means re-ripping all those bitches). If I find something I can't locate for free online then I'll buy it on the cheap.
Vinyl also has the benefit of containing a much larger catalog of music than the CD format by proxy of being older. There's still hundreds of thousands of albums (maybe more - could be millions) that haven't been mastered for CD or web release.

Worst sounding format out there, hell no.

He's saying that people who value physical media have reasons for fetishizing vinyl which are not shared by CDs.. there will never be a CD comeback.

Don't care. As long as I can buy them cheap, I'm fine. They will last me a lifetime, that's for certain.

if the internet dies, sure. that could quite easily happen too because we keep putting too much junk in our atmosphere. the space junk could potentially leave us stuck on earth, doomed to die and never reach the stars.

the only advantage of cd format is that it straddles the line between physical and digital - you can have a physical copy that can be ripped to digital to be used on mobile devices.

>being this autistic

DONT STACK YOUR CDS UPWARDS YOU FUCKING LUNATIC
IF YOU WANT TO TAKE OUT
A CD YOU'RE GONNA START A FUCKING AVALANCHE OF JEWEL CASES

No, they don't last forever. Even if you take care of them.

Depends on the mastering. There are several great sounding cds. Also don't forget that most modern vinyl are pressed from digital sources, the same sources used for the cds & digital downloads. So what you get is basically a less accurate playback of a digital soundfile. If that sounds better to you, good for you.

I own several cds from the early 1980s. They are absolutely fine. Don't see why they won't last at least another 30 years.

It is objectively the best physical format for music, due to higher frequency response than the human hearing range, low distortion, and higher potential dynamic range than would ever be necessary (it's too bad most music is mastered like shit). Jewel cases are trash though.

my friend started collecting cd's this year just cause he thinks its a cool and convenient format so id say yeah

vastly superior sound to the medium they supplanted, cassettes

I did that back in 2011-12, and now I have a heavy archive box full of albums, a substantial portion of which I don't even listen to anymore, and the ones I do I have rips and digital downloads of.
it's convenient, until you have a lot of them. then it isn't.

You must suck at jenga.

None of mine from that far back made it and I took immaculate care of them.

>people who value physical media have reasons for fetishizing vinyl which are not shared by CDs.
I wouldn't call myself a collector, but I buy some CDs from time to time and I like to keep them on a shelf

not really everything is digital these days

i collect records but cds are better and streaming music is just very easy an accessible

Weird. They don't play anymore?

I own 2000+ cds, many older ones, and honestly not a single has 'given out'.

Loudness war nonsense ruined what should have been the best format.

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Not likely, but they are most of the time cheap and I like collecting physical music of all kinds so I will continue to buy them until they stop being made, whenever that'll be. You can argue it's a waste of money (it kind of is) but trying to talk sense into a buyfag is a waste of time.

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He's most likely lying; I have some CDs from the late 80s/early 90s that don't have a scratch on them due to me giving a shit about my collection. The cases sadly do inevitably get scuffed though.

They started skipping and shit, especially towards the end of the album. It's a myth that they last forever; unless you never actually listen to them.

>He's most likely lying

Why the fuck would someone lie about this???

>It's a myth that they last forever

as I said, those very first cd editions are still out there and the ones I bought over the years play just fine. You must have had some bad luck.

I dunno cuz fuck you LOL

While there is such a thing as 'CD rot', it only seems to occur with CDs made by a few UK factories in a certain period of time. Other than that, CDs giving out from old age is practically unheard of. CDs don't start to skip because they're old, they skip when they get handled badly.

probably. i've been collecting them for years (not actively) and i imagine they'll make the same sort of comeback as lp's in about 15-20 years

maybe if you handle them badly. the laser won't actually warp the cd, it's not like vinyl

This for sure. Some companies even release sacd/special layer discs and purposefully reduce the dynamics on the red book layer to make the other layer sound artificially better.

I just went to the record store today and bought a couple. Usually go once a month as I like to listen to music in the car and CDs are the best option. Even if I had an aux input I'd still get CDs for the car