Ian Boddy talks about "Time" in Music (EMP # 2)

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 ·  Posted: 12.01.2010 - 15:06  ·  #17
You calling me a dead horse lol ?

That's why I put depressed in quotation marks - I wasn't being all together serious!

Just trying to give a balanced reply to some of your opinions. We're always looking at ways to improve Musiczeit and we do take seriously your comments. Rest assured we will continue to improve the site and let you know what's happening when we're at liberty to do so.

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 ·  Posted: 13.01.2010 - 03:06  ·  #18
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 ·  Posted: 13.01.2010 - 04:16  ·  #19
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You calling me a dead horse lol ?


Neigh lad, I'm the ex-Yorkshire man!
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 ·  Posted: 13.01.2010 - 12:19  ·  #20
I think it's a difficult thing to say if one way is best.
Selling twice as many albums at half the price is better for everyone really (as in it doesn't cost anything much to sell double these days as there is no real product) BUT can you sell double? With CD's it is an infinitely harder business and requires risk, but risk can get artists known just outside a niche market. Having said that, who is going to risk their money on promoting these artists?
very tricky.
Personally, I buy from artists I like and respect at whatever the going rate is, but I don't perhaps try as much out that I don't know due to having a certain amount to spend and when it's gone, it's gone. I also prefer physical objects so my money goes to CD's more often than not (and I have sold more CD's of my last album than downloads so far and I thought I'd struggle to sell all the CD's but they are gone) so the market is a hard one to play right now..

Ian certainly deserves a lot of respect for keeping this music out there though 👍
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 ·  Posted: 15.01.2010 - 19:09  ·  #21
One small point : Boomkat charge the same for MP3 as FLAC. I like that. Others do too. I noticed that with some of my stuff.
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 ·  Posted: 15.01.2010 - 20:41  ·  #22
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You calling me a dead horse lol ?

That's why I put depressed in quotation marks - I wasn't being all together serious!

Just trying to give a balanced reply to some of your opinions. We're always looking at ways to improve Musiczeit and we do take seriously your comments. Rest assured we will continue to improve the site and let you know what's happening when we're at liberty to do so.

Cheers,

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Improve Musiczeit ???

Well then offer CD-R's as well, it's the same shit as a download, but I don't have to spend so much time in getting the music from pc to a disc,yes I still play music via a stereo system not a pc. And the covers are printed the way I like it, with previous downloads I've wasted an enormous amount of inkt.
Count up those costs and you'll end up with a more expensive product than a CD-R.

PS: any good product is expensive. :roll:
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 ·  Posted: 15.01.2010 - 21:34  ·  #23
Can anybody answer me this. Are cdr's any likely to last any longer than they were when they were first sold? say ten years ago. I have fair few cdr's, not copies, but releases such as the original cutted scenes by rainbow serpent, which I bought from SMD, which are not just 60 minutes of hiss. This is not a dig at SMD/musiczeit, just a query really, as I know nowadays you can back a cdr up onto a computer, but for me these were pre computer days. If they are going to deteriate, it just seems wrong to sell them for as much. Mind you in the late 90's we were paying £15 for a cdr Ouch!
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 ·  Posted: 15.01.2010 - 22:44  ·  #24
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Can anybody answer me this. Are cdr's any likely to last any longer than they were when they were first sold? say ten years ago. I have fair few cdr's, not copies, but releases such as the original cutted scenes by rainbow serpent, which I bought from SMD, which are not just 60 minutes of hiss. This is not a dig at SMD/musiczeit, just a query really, as I know nowadays you can back a cdr up onto a computer, but for me these were pre computer days. If they are going to deteriate, it just seems wrong to sell them for as much. Mind you in the late 90's we were paying £15 for a cdr Ouch!
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I would imagine modern CDRs are likely to last longer than early manifestations, however I would not trust to luck. We'd recommend people keep (and backup) all their original FLAC files purchased from MusicZeit so they can create another CDr for their personal use if/when needed.

If you have albums *only* on CDR I'd recommend you rip them losslessly asap as a backup.

CD attrition rate is less. Only 3 or 4 of my 1500 or so CDs had succomb to "CD rot".
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