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Author: Iceland clarinet
Date: 2010-01-26 03:44
Oh well you may call me old fashioned but I like to go to a record store and I have a nice one with classical music and their own label(mainly pop) where you can sit on a nice sofa listen to the music and get one of the best expresso(free) in town. I like to have the booklet with info and pictures and find Ipod(although I use it in the gym) not very personal. It's just like the new electronic book computer KINDLE you can now get from Amazon. Very bad move and will probably ruin bookstore's ground in near future. Now Virgin megastore in Manhattan New York has closed.
Maybe something will happen when artist and authors stop doing their art.
This is KILLING ART!!!!!!!!!!
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2010-01-26 03:53
On the other hand the mp3 has cut the middle man between the artist and the audience. One can now make a fairly high quality recording with a computer and post it for the world to hear at almost no cost. It is not all bad, on the contrary...
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: Iceland clarinet
Date: 2010-01-26 03:58
And one more thing.
One of Iceland's foremost pop singer and songwriter is Bubbi Morthens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbi_Morthens
He has had a solo album almost every year since 1980 and has been in some other groups and I believe he is the most recorded artist in Iceland and has threatened to stop recording and just focus on performing around the country because of the Internet taking over. Many artist have said that he should put up with the fact that selling music on the Internet is the future. I don't know many artist that like it(not just for the money) and I know of Icelandic site with music that did not ask all the artist permission to sell their albums(one is my clarinet teacher).
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Author: Iceland clarinet
Date: 2010-01-26 04:01
Sylvain it's still as little personal. If we had no cd's then you would not have the change to meet your favorite artist to sign your album and to talk a little to him.
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2010-01-26 06:15
Record stores like that are great, but they are few and far between. The big shops have been impersonal mega-emporiums for years, mostly stocking the best sellers. The big stores put the little ones out of business. The internet (even if you ignore digital downloads and focus on stores like Amazon), Wal-Mart, and the big stores' impersonal anti-niche behavior themselves put the big ones out of business.
Absent such a store, it's nice to have digital distribution as an option.
You're lumping many issues together that are very different and have varying implications. The plight of record stores, the effect of the internet, digital vs. album sales, recording vs. touring...
Many of the record companies themselves, imho, have done an order of magnitude more to kill art than the internet.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: BobD
Date: 2010-01-26 08:38
Making "art" more accessible will not kill it.....quite the contrary. "FLAC" is the audiophile's preference? Perhaps, but mp3 is still what's being downloaded by most people. Now, how long will it take Phila to learn that DVD exists.
Bob Draznik
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Author: kdk
Date: 2010-01-26 11:02
The Philadelphia Orchestra has been selling concert recordings in FLAC and MP3 formats through its own online store on its website for several years. The short list of composers and conductors that Dobrin mentions in the article has all been available for some time. Among the selections available in the past have been vintage performances made in the Academy of Music with Ormandy and Muti and even a couple with Stokowski. The online store recently went off-line for "maintenance" and I suppose they're looking for a way to maintain the online distribution without incurring the overhead cost of running it themselves in-house. Being able to buy these recordings through Amazon, ITunes and other national outlets is a plus, though I assume the prices will go up as either Ioda (the new distributor), the end merchants or both add their costs.
The orchestra's online store has always provided the original program notes for each performance. I hope Ioda and the various vendors continue the practice.
I've found that buying the FLAC formats provides a distinct advantage in versatility. Using easily available conversion software (some of it freeware) I can make MP3 or WMF copies for use in an MP3 player, listen at home in much better fidelity to the FLAC or convert it to WAV and burn it to a CD. FLAC provides lossless compression that can become anything else you need, while even the best MP3 format is lossy and can't be improved by converters.
Karl
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