CD Celebrates 25th Birthday

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  CD Sales

  The drop in CD sales has little to do with the actual medium. Since the ubiquitous availability of files in MP3 format from online sources, legal or illegal, the CD players have been twigged to play CD's full of MP3 music. But where is the CD I can buy over the counter full of MP3 files? Nowhere. Or maybe I'm not looking hard enough.
  
  A CD will hold about 200 more or less MP3 popular 3.5 minute songs. The perfect medium for ABBA or Frank Sinatra or even current performers to load the CD with their early best sellers, retail it for thirty bucks or so, and get on board. As a consumer I'd load up on them; no part-files, no sneaky stuff, just the good value-added that Columbia or Sony or any of the other big players can assemble on the good old CD.
  
  Paul Swift

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  NURREDIN09/10/07 Report as spam
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  RE: CD Celebrates 25th Birthday

  The problem is not with the cd vs the technology of mp3 players and ipods. The problem is with the content being placed on the cds. Noone wants to listen to the crap the major record labels are producing,and the cd is taking the rap.People will still buy cd's if they perceive value in the content. If all the major labels are going to give us is thugs,thieves,drug dealers, pimps and skanks to listen to, the public votes by keeping their dollars. The cd is still the best medium for listening to music,just put something on it people want to hear.