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Originally Posted by BWinmill
I'm pretty sure that you're going to run into the same thing with CD's. You're going to have some people nostalgic about it and others raving about the quality of uncompressed audio (even though few, if any, people can hear the difference). But, most of all, I suspect that some people will start picking up CDs when prices hit rock bottom and then it will evolve into another fashionable trend.
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On the Amazon UK marketplace, CD's hit rock bottom ALREADY. I've often picked up CD's for €0.01 and €2.01 shipping to the Netherlands.
Why do I buy CD's? I actually don't care about the CD. I buy CD's because it's MUCH cheaper to rip my own files from them than to buy these files, especially if we're talking about lossless stuf.
And yes, I'm saving/ripping all my music in a lossless format; FLAC in my case. Not because I'm a golden-eared guy that is able to hear a difference between a 320 kbps VBR0 MP3 and a lossless FLAC, but because I want the option to reconvert to another lossless format if I ever have to. I have too much music to rip it all a third time. (Yes, this is the second time. The first time, I was too young and stupid to rip to FLAC, and hard drives were too small.)