Comments on: Movies & Music: CDs aren’t a relic, yet

By: KI

KI — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:56:55 +0000

Thanks, KRM. This is just a little home town cd done for family and friends. I do believe she has a gift from God in that realm. She has written some beautiful music and has her foot in that field, while working in another, rearing her two beautiful boys and helping her husband with a business. I am most proud of her, because,like my other daughters she loves the Lord and has a kind heart.

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By: krm

krm — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:20:17 +0000

KI – The samples on Cdbaby were very impressive. She is quite talented, and the sound is entirely professional.

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By: KI

KI — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:41:01 +0000

“Ashokan Farewell” is a popular song. So many people heard it on the PBS civil war series. The author, Jay Unger, was feeling melancholy when his music camp was over for the season. It is a lament and he says it brought him to tears before he finished composing it. I suppose you have grounds for finding it depressing. I have heard many different versions of it and find it beautiful.

Thanks for checking it out and ordering it. I hope you will enjoy it. A coworker of my husband kept after him to put a few on the cd baby site. We had never heard of it before then. We found we knew quite a few of the musicians who had albums on it, so he decided it might be fun to try it out. Again–thanks.

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By: Chas

Chas — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:44:40 +0000

KI, My mind was in the download mode and I couldn’t figure why they didn’t have a “my Library” option, then I decided to follow the process through and soon figured they were going to send me a real CD. So I ordered it. They say they shipped it; I didn’t expect that on a Sunday.
I appreciate that we get more than 30 seconds to audition the music. I like all the songs on the disk except “Ashokan Farewell”. I have that by someone else. It has a haunting melody, and some probably think it’s beautiful. But I find it depressing and skip past it when it starts. But evidently lots of people like it.

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By: KI

KI — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:17:40 +0000

Thanks, Chas. I don’t think you can download it, since my husband didn’t do whatever he needed to for that. When originally made, it was on a cassette tape. Enough people wanted a copy that it was transferred to cds. My husband and daughter used to perform together at a local country show. That was why they decided to put one together. I’m glad they did, since they don’t get to perform together too much anymore. They would love to do one with their own originals some day. Living a thousand miles from each other doesn’t make that really easy!

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By: klasko

klasko — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:30:50 +0000

I prefer CDs and use itunes for those “One Song”s that I just have to have. (They are usuually oldies of some kind.)

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By: Chas

Chas — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:05:58 +0000

KRM: It’s at http://www.cdbaby.com

It’s a nice album, I plan to get it and another on their site. iTunes and Real player are different, so, I’ve never heard of “cdbaby” before and need to work out how they do it before I start working with them.

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By: krm

krm — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:08:27 +0000

KI- Where (online) might on find Sara Isaacson music (it didn’t come up on Amazon or iTunes)?

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By: paula

paula — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:30:44 +0000

I’m still trying to replace my vinyl with CDs! I have an iPod, but the rest of the family has Sansa. They love Napster to Go where they can make huge playlists for a monthly fee. I download my CDs to my iPod, then purchase individual tracks here and there of things I only have on albums. Bottom line- still mostly CDs.

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By: JohnV

JohnV — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:09:55 +0000

I’ll only buy music online if it comes in a fully lossless format (FLAC is good). There’s no reason to buy something with DRM (as has been seen recently, if the provider goes under your DRM is gone and so are your purchased music files). It’s also a waste to buy lower-quality MP3 versions – if you’re paying, get the real thing!

The plus side is that online music can be higher quality than CD audio (CDs are stuck at 44.1khz, 16-bit while some music is available at up to 192KHz, 24-bit now).

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