MP3 D/Loading - How Much Would You Pay ?

[detfella]

i disagree vinyl lives & breaths the music. i think there is a big difference between the formats, one deteriarates with time and one remains the same for ever. but kinda like life i like the crackly artifacts that creep in over time. for me i'm also happy with mp3 and i'd probably pay around the £1 mark. but i'm also enjoying the increase in free music that is out there, to me thats what digital compression and the internet has provided. (and by free i dont mean illegal, i just mean people sharing their music legally with whoever and for no profits) some people have slated the creative commons licence but i think its a great idea and people have asked to use my tracks for games/soundtracks - and i will get diddly squat for it.

open source music made with open source software for a free world

some people dont like that argument and some people will use warzed sftware/sample other peoples work and at the same time demand that people should be buying their music - i dont see the logic in that...

[RDR]

MP3's of dubious quality and a world where we have to crawl through 1000 times more the tracks than we did before just to find one good tune!!!

A lot of poo gets released on vinyl too.

In fact, I'd probably argue the toss that most of the stuff in the "Techno Production Filez" forum on here pisses on 60/70% of what I listen to at the record shop.

I'd agree with that.

Still aint looking forward to that period where there is so much crap available that its hard to find what rocks.

Oh wadda i know!!!

:roll:

hehehehe

[Jay Pace]

Finding out what rocks amongst the crap is what makes djing such a pleasure

"Digging" has always been a part of djing.

Which records in your collection do you value the most:
The ones you bought in Virgin 'recommended' section for £3.99 along with 60,000 other people, or the ones you picked up that nobody knew about, and you take credit for finding.

Having unique tunes and an individual style comes about due to the amount of stuff out there.

Dig people, dig.

[RDR]

You get me wrong Jay. I like digging (slang for using needles to inject smack round where i come from ;) ) just as much as the next person.

Im making my point badly, to round up i mean that how rapid (or slow depending how you do it) is it to go into a record shop and check out those shiny hew releases?

I :love: record shops.

Im really not looking forward to that hinterland in between where vinyl croaks its last and a decent alternative takes over, i am of course aware that we are already in it, but i reckon it'll get much worse before it gets better.

I really hope that vinyl stays but things move forward and i will certainly be interested in seeing what happens regarding this format (MP3) I suspect that somewhere along the way there will be a format that exceeds the capability and also has somthing specific in store for DJs.