indeed...imagine when you can downlaod a track for say $.50 or $1.00 directly from a labels web site rather than pay $6 - $10 or more for the 12" which both the distributor and the shop have added their cost to. granted it puts the middlemen out of business but thats the breaks i guess.
just think of what it will do to artist exposure as well as profit margins. the up front cost of maintaining an FTP server is nothing compared to those of pressing and distributing vinyl let alone the fact that there's the potential to sell hundreds of thousands or copies of a given track worldwide in digital format rather than tens of thousands on vinyl. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 07:31:40 -0700 > To: Kevin Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] > Subject: Re: QRe: [313] ANyone know about Finalscratch (maybe OT) > > exactly.. you can record to a pristine digital 24/96 environment if > you like, and then play that digital recording out. only > consideration is file size. so technically finalscratch could sound > better than records ever did. > > as for independent labels and distribution, a) this won't happen over > night - vinyl production isn't going anywhere anytime soon, and b) > sooner or later digital music distribution will finally dump its two > left feet and figure out a way a safe and efficient way to work. > seems so ironic that all the hard to find music we buy is almost > exclusively on vinyl, when it started out as a digital master. > artists need to be paid for their work, but in what format we receive > it shouldn't matter. people seem to have gotten used to CDs just > fine... plus, if music got cheaper due to the reduced distribution > costs, there's a very good chance people would buy a lot more of it. > i know personally there's tons of housier records that i ignore every > month because it's just not in the budget. this also has huge > implications for all the tiny, regional labels out there around the > world that very few people get exposed to. > > At 6:53 AM -0700 8/15/01, Kevin Conrad wrote: >> Final Scratch can also play wav files, so someone >> using FS doesn't necessarily have to worry about the >> low quality of MP3's. >> >> Kevin >> >> >> --- "M. Todd Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> While I agree with what Lauryn has said for the most >>> part (because we have >>> already seen the effect of Napster on the music >>> industry). We must include >>> one more particularily special point. >>> >>> MP3 Quality at less than a bit rate of 192 sounds >>> shoddy on the extreme low >>> end and extreme high end. MP3 is a compression >>> algorithm which lops off the >>> signal at the extent of the human hearing range (ie >>> 20, 000 Hz but most >>> codecs lop off around 16, 000), and the sub-extent >>> of human hearing (around >>> 20hz but again most codecs lop off around 100Hz). >>> When listening at home >>> this isn't so bad since most in home stereo systems >>> already reduce extreme >>> low-high end by means of a crossover either in the >>> speaker itself or >>> digitally in the amplifier. At the club however the >>> is no roll off, and >>> things like these become more apparent. >>> >>> Worse is the fact that despite our inability to hear >>> these frequencies, we >>> can hear the harmonics that they create with >>> frequencies we do hear. >>> Moreover even without knowledge the producer of the >>> track may have utilized >>> those particular harmonics. With MP3 those will >>> never be heard. >>> >>> I've heard both MP3's and vinyl on the same system, >>> and to be honest unless >>> you have a good soundcheck and all your files are >>> recorded and EQ'ed >>> properly beforehand, your set will sound lackluster. >>> >>> MP3's with a bitrate higher than 192 sound great, >>> the higher the better, but >>> they take up more room. As we progress into a >>> generation where physical >>> memory is no longer an issue I'm sure this will >>> become more viable. >>> >>> Cheers >>> todd >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "miss lauryn g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:10 AM >>> Subject: Re: [313] ANyone know about Finalscratch >>> (maybe OT) >>> >>> >>>> i think the idea of this technology is fantastic. >>> however, what i am >>>> wondering is what this is going to do to the >>> independent record label >>>> industry. use of mp3s right now doesn't currently >>> affect them as much as >>>> it does the major record labels. but what this is >>> going to do is >>>> discourage buying vinyl. (at least that is how i >>> see it.) all you have to >>>> do is basically find a track online or find a >>> friend with that record and >>>> rip an mp3. it's going to cause a lot of producers >>> to not make any money. >>>> i wonder how much people are going to start >>> fighting within the dance >>>> music community after this becomes readily >>> available. i personally think >>>> that final scratch is going to be pretty popular >>> and that after it gets >>>> some more attention, it's going to be utilized by >>> more and more people, >>>> especially after they see that it works so well. >>> it's just also a question >>>> of people supporting their artists and buying the >>> vinyl still. (which >>>> is something that i would still be doing if i >>> really really wanted a >>>> certain track...it would cause a lot less of that >>> "ooooh why did i buy >>>> THAT?" syndrome that i occasionally get here and >>> there if i used final >>>> scratch and just had an mp3 of the track.) >>>> >>>> i dunno...i'm just going to sit back and watch and >>> see how people start >>>> changing their minds on the mp3 argument when it >>> starts affecting THEM. >>>> >>>> -l >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >> >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! 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