Obviously this is a very niche market but I find it fascinating that physical formats are being appreciated again. They already have some modern NetMD clients right now, making it a breeze to use the format.Ĭassettes are also ticking up in sales and major artists like Taylor Swift are releasing new material on cassette. There's a small but fairly active community around minidisc.wiki, and some developers reverse engineering the netMD protocol and the firmware on the players. If you use an existing MD as a source to create a new MD, the lossy compression will not allow a 1:1 copy. MD does tick most of the "ideal format" boxes, except for "easy to reproduce". I have a small collection of MD's now, and i do enjoy playing that more than just pressing play on some Spotify playlist.Īlso read your blogpost. I can buy releases from artists i like, or use NetMD to "burn" them myself.
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So I bought a portable player and a deck for at home. I had also watched some YT videos on the format, and thought "why not". I completely skipped that format back in the day, but noticed some artists i liked were releasing albums on MD (through Bandcamp). > I ended up just lamenting that we never got the Sony MiniDisc revolution that we all deserved. I have nothing scientific to back that up though. My gut is that music recorded/mastered to tape is going to sound 'as intended' on vinyl and everything recorded digitally (the old DDD label on CDs) targeted CD. At least Taylor Swift is up-front about re-recording her albums. I'm not a huge fan of artists tinkering with the original material, adding elements that got lost in the mix due to overdubs/noise, were not technically possible, or just re-mixing for their taste. I have some issue with re-masters that attempt to fix problems with the source material. How do you feel about more recent re-masters where they have been more sensitive to over-compression and in some cases re-re-mastered to address the appalling re-masters? There are some genre's that benefitted from that loudness war (pop music sonics changed dramatically) but yeah anything which should have had subtlety got squashed to oblivion. They were always mastered, there was just the 90s-2000s race for loudness that changed how they were mastered. Vinyl sales doubled in 2021 and outpaced CDs, and growth actually increased throughout 2021, as roughly ~60% of the sales took place in the second half of the year. > Between that big launch and vinyl pressing plant supply issues (Covid supply chain issues and huge orders for two album releases) people who want the physical object may have moved from vinyl to CD editions. That leaves a minimum of an $85 million (and more realistically >$93 million) increase that can't be attributed to a shift in audience demographics for the year's top seller. The average CD price is $15, and that particular album has been on sale since the release, so the absolute maximum that it could contribute to an "unusual" influx of CD sales is $15 million - and that's very generously pretending 100% of sales were CDs and that she didn't sell any copies of any albums in 2020. Adele's album sold around ~950,000 physical copies in 2021 in the US. That one album may account for the entire growth. Adele had a huge album launch last year, and sold very well on vinyl and CD.
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