Vinyl, CD or digital

I'm talking music here what format do people prefer?

Personally I have a 3 tiered approach I get digital download for artist's I'm not sure about, not overly fussed about ect, Get CD's for most stuff I really want and Get vinyl for stuff I really love, of stuff that is OK but the packaging or the vinyl itself is impressive.

Love to hear what others do...

My whole library is purely digital. At first, I didn't even own a music player a few years ago and never owned a CD player.

im all digital

and the only reason to get vinyl is if you are an audiophile and have a REALLY good sound system

I mainly buy CDs and rarely download anything unless that's the only way to get it. I'll buy vinyl of semi-current artists I really love and then I also buy a lot of old vinyl mainly consisting of jazz intrumentalists, jazz and easy listening vocalists, lounge music, out of print classical stuff and singles from smaller rap, electronica, and dj artists.

I usually scrounge through the international albums as well looking for 60's french vocalists and random stuff that looks interesting from around the world.

Cd's.

If its just a song or 2 then Ill get my friend to download them for me.

I still love CDs.SaugaGames

Same here.

I prefer the CD....only use buy digital for a song or two if I'm not that interested in the band.

CDs are the purest form I suppose, but nowadays most of the music I buy is digital. It's much more efficient and convenient, seeing as any CD would just end up getting ripped and added to my digital library anyway.WiseCynic

I mostly use digital, though I like the authenticity of vinyl and cd. I usually only buy CD's if the have simething cool with it like a bonus DVD or cool album artwork or something. In the day and age of file sharing, artists need more than just good songs on a cd if they want it to sell

I like the ideas that I've heard: a few people have told me that the industry's going to go back to vinyls. But it's not going to be just vinyls: When you buy a record, it'll come with a code (or something) so you can download it for free. (Free being... after you buy the album, of course.)

As for me? All my music is on the computer with CD backups in case my comp goes to heck. Heaven forbid. That'd be a lot of burning to do to get my library back...

I like the ideas that I've heard: a few people have told me that the industry's going to go back to vinyls. But it's not going to be just vinyls: When you buy a record, it'll come with a code (or something) so you can download it for free. (Free being... after you buy the album, of course.)

As for me? All my music is on the computer with CD backups in case my comp goes to heck. Heaven forbid. That'd be a lot of burning to do to get my library back...

bob8hiscow

I rip my cd's onto my computer, and then synch them to my MP3 so I thought maybe there was a way to also copy the music from the Zen and synch it with my laptop. I was so happy I was able to do that xD

[QUOTE="bob8hiscow"]

I like the ideas that I've heard: a few people have told me that the industry's going to go back to vinyls. But it's not going to be just vinyls: When you buy a record, it'll come with a code (or something) so you can download it for free. (Free being... after you buy the album, of course.)

As for me? All my music is on the computer with CD backups in case my comp goes to heck. Heaven forbid. That'd be a lot of burning to do to get my library back...

Matt-4542

I rip my cd's onto my computer, and then synch them to my MP3 so I thought maybe there was a way to also copy the music from the Zen and synch it with my laptop. I was so happy I was able to do that xD

Zen? The Creative player? Those things are pretty cool: my dad's got one. When he saw my sister and I eyeballing his, he bought us Zen Micros for Christmas a few years ago. Glad your computer could sync with it to get your music back!

I still love CDs.SaugaGames

So do I:D

I stay as far away from MP3's as I can.

I prefer CD and Vinyl.

I still love CDs.SaugaGames

cds mp3 and mp4

I think Super Audio CD is still the best format. Sometimes i prefer Vinyl because some old versions of certains songs (like Chris Rea Josephine version 4) are only in Vinyl.

CDs all the way, but i convert everything i buy to mp3 and play it on iTunes. i just like having the hard copy, for some reason.

i don't understand the appeal of vinyl, unless you're a DJ. the audio quality is worse, and they take a ton of room to store. if all my cds were records, i would need a whole room to store them. who needs that.

I used to own a cassette player (I know right), then I bought a portable CD player later on, and now I use iPods, and my whole library is digital.

I think Super Audio CD is still the best format. Sometimes i prefer Vinyl because some old versions of certains songs (like Chris Rea Josephine version 4) are only in Vinyl.

X4D

Yeah, I've heard good things about SACD, but not actually heard it. I wish it had been more successful, although I'd hate to buy all of my music again. I guess that's why it didn't catch on.

CDs all the way, but i convert everything i buy to mp3 and play it on iTunes. i just like having the hard copy, for some reason.

i don't understand the appeal of vinyl, unless you're a DJ. the audio quality is worse, and they take a ton of room to store. if all my cds were records, i would need a whole room to store them. who needs that.

-starman-

Wrong. Vinyl's sound better than CDs or MP3s in the majority of cases.

[QUOTE="SaugaGames"]I still love CDs.gameeer1

Same here.

All of my music library is digital, I own a few CD's but I just rip the tracks to my pc, the actual CD almost never gets played. I think it's way more practical that way, why carry lots of CD's and a CD player around and have to switch the CD's when you want to listen to something else when you can carry your entire music library around in an iPod or Zen or whatever.

I don't really see the point of vynil in this day and age, the format is just clumsily large and the sound quality is nowhere near either CD or digital, I didn't even know people still bought Vynil. :P

I don't really see the point of vynil in this day and age, the format is just clumsily large and the sound quality is nowhere near either CD or digital, I didn't even know people still bought Vynil. :P

black_cat19

Wow, why do people think vinyl albums sound worse than CDs or MP3s? Lots of uneducated peeps here...

Wow, why do people think vinyl albums sound worse than CDs or MP3s? Lots of uneducated peeps here...Engrish_Major

But why does vinyl sound better than CD? I have to say i'm very ignorant on that issue.