CDs was a mistake

>CDs
>Good way to store digital audio
But they kinda aren't. A USB stick or even your phone can hold vastly more audio in a lot less space. CDs are only useful if you have a radio that only takes CDs.

Sure, in this day and age, just having the lossless track is the same as the CD. But just because an USB stick can hold more data than a CD, doesn't mean CDs stop being good. It's still a preferred way to release physical music, it includes what you need (the music without audio compression), and includes the artwork, lyrics and maybe even some cool design on the CD itself. It's not a bad thing to own if you enjoy music. I like having both the CD, and my own rip of it in lossless on my PC.
Some nights ago there was a shutdown, and my CDs (as well as my discman with some batteries) saved me from boredom.

>degenerative media

>It's still a prefered way to release physical music
This thread is literally about vinyls overtaking CDs as the prefered way to release physical music, and that's because the primary purpose of physical music has gone from actually being music to being merchandise, and vinyls are better as band merch

>includes the artwork, lyrics, and maybe even some cool design on the CD itself
Again, vinyl does all that but with glorious 12" cover art

>blackouts and walkman
Most people have phones, very few people still have discman (diskmen? diskmans?)

If you want lots of high quality audio, store it on your phone (or USB stick if you have small phone storage). If you want cool cover art, liner notes, gatefolds, limited run colored wax, vinyl blows CD out of the water.

Extremely based.

>hace
lmao ok buddy

Im quite impressed you heebs were able to talk people into buying this shit

based big brain

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>This thread is literally about vinyls overtaking CDs
It's not, if you read OP's link (not even clicking on it, just reading the link) you'll see it's about a single vinyl set outselling its CD counterpart for the first time. It's an exception, so it's news worthy.
>Again, vinyl does all that but with glorious 12" cover art
Sure, but it's still not digital audio. The CD is just convenient, and while not as "merch-y" as the vinyl, it still gets the job done. Also not all albums were released on vinyl. A lot of them are getting vinyl edition now, though. But again, for records that weren't originally recorded with analog tech, it's kind of just a hipster novelty, not bad, but not necessarily better than actually buying the digital audio in physical. In this case, the only advantage of the vinyl version would be its big art work.
>Most people have phones
yeah but phones' batteries don't last much, especially not modern ones. That's why I resorted to my discman when my phone battery died (and yeah it's discman)
>If you want lots of high quality audio, store it on your phone (or USB stick if you have small phone storage). If you want cool cover art, liner notes, gatefolds, limited run colored wax, vinyl blows CD out of the water.
Again, I'm fine with having lossless audio on my phone, but I prefer to rip it myself from a CD. By the way I've done lossless rips of CD and vinyl and 99% of the time I prefer the CD rip.

everyone listens to music digitally anyways so you might as well go for the most visually impressive physical media

>music
>visual
((((hi))))

I don't see CDs as convenient unless you already have a bunch of CD players that don't have auxillary, USB, or bluetooth input. I actually do use CDs in my car for this reason, but it's significantly less convenient than my last car that had Bluetooth connectivity. I guess it's situational in that regard.

LPs are band merch that happen to play music, CDs are an oddly shaped USB stick that holds less

>seeing sound
((((drugs))))

are you illiterate or schizo

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>everyone listens to music
>might as well go for the most visually impressive
your (((words))) tribesman

another pro in favour of CDs is the extra space for liner artwork and other creative use of packaging

both cds and vinyl are basically collectibles you buy for the visuals and to own a physical thing since few people actually use them to listen to music at this point

Vinyl: 4% of total music sales. 8.6 million units.
CD: 18.6 million units sold.

CD growth is stale while vinyl's is growing. Tough to decide if the dog is chasing his tail or his tail is chasing him, but what's for sure is that vinyl has become more publicly available at brick & mortar stores, while CDs become increasingly harder to find. If you make something more available, sales of it increase. If you restrict it, sales decrease. Again, what's causing what effect? Are stagnant CD sales causing retailers to stop carrying them, or is the retailers' pulling back CDs caising them to sell less? Probably a bit of both.

In the 70s, the decade started off with 3 formats in play: vinyl, cassettes, and 8-tracks. 8-tracks quickly flamed out, but cassettes & vinyl hung in there deep into the 80s. Point being, multiple formats CAN coexist to meet the varying wants of music lovers. We should not root for one format to be left standing.

Every format has its pros and cons. The consumer weighs all this before making his/her purchase. The more choices, the better.

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oh so they're irrelevant and unnecessary now? good to know thanks *rolls eyes*

both cds and vinyl are unnecessary for listening to most music now unless you want to own the physical item, of course

Vinyls are gaining importance because CDs were only about music, while Vinyls are also decoration and giving a hipster vintage look to your house

>The more choices, the better.
this desu

lol ok idiot