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Another reason CDs are still worth considering: classical music and, to a lesser extent, jazz CDs often feature extensive and informative liner notes that have
by Mediterraneo10 7y ago
Another reason CDs are still worth considering: classical music and, to a lesser extent, jazz CDs often feature extensive and informative liner notes that have never been posted online anywhere. I myself typically rip all my purchases to FLAC immediately and then I listen through my media centre, so I often forget that I have the original physical release there on the shelf, but when I do go back and look at that CD I am often amazed how good the liner notes are.
- layoutIfNeeded 7y agoIndeed. I not only rip my CDs immediately to FLAC, but also scan all the artwork in 600dpi on my CanoScan 9000f photographic scanner. These are then stored in a PDF file next to the music.
- beat 7y agoI think that's one reason for the vinyl resurgence - artwork is so much better.
- leemailll 7y agoI agree. I mostly listen to classical music, although I also rip them but most of the time I still use cds. It seems current music players on computers never thought about creating classical music pieces playlist. I had to manually add pieces to create them with correct order or just add albums which is the same as just playing a cd. In the end, I listen to music with CD players mostly, and still insist on buy a car with CD player
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThis is primarily the fault of later era CDs when the index marks were abandoned and small movements were separated by track breaks. Originally, Redbook audio was supposed to always have a silent pregap between tracks and indexes were for intra-track navigation. You will find this on early classical CDs. Then the problem is finding a player that supports skipping index marks.
- JudgeWapner 7y agoAlso because classical doesn't fit the CDDB style metadata format very well. The peformer and composer aren't the same person, and it's common to have many copies of the same piece, say a symphony performed by different orchestras at different dates. It just doesn't lend itself to a computer filesystem that well.
- arebours 7y agoI recently discovered the Idagio app (https://www.idagio.com/ https://www.idagio.com/). It has pretty amazing and well maintained database of classical pieces. You can for example list all renditions of such and such piano concerto sorted by year.