Yeah, I got an email from them too. Sad news. They're blaming it on the rise of MP3's and saying that this is the death of vinyl. Perhaps there's an element of truth to it, but maybe Juno and Chemical have the whole thing wrapped up and Tune Inn just got left behind.
Sad day. thats the first site ive seen close down, alot of labels are folding aswell at the mo. MP3s are here to stay and alot of smaller labels are gonna really struggle to keep there head above the water. Vinyl wont last much longer, i hope im wrong but sadly i dont think i am.
thing is in every thread everyone seems upset, but whenever i see people play out they only use cds, so at the end of the day people are putting the nails in their own coffin so to speak
isn't that the point though? cause this new media is cheaper AND, with the right equipment, you can get the same effect/flexibilty
Of course people are gonna be upset because vinyl has always equalled djing. there were never MP3s about etc But there are now and there ruling the industry. I for one never thought i'd turn my back on vinyl but i now play 90% CDRs as there cheaper & more convenient but that doesnt mean that im not sad vinyls dieing when ive been a vinyl fanatic for the past 5 years.
well yes i use cds too, my point was tho that everyone seems shocked when another big vinyl store closes down, but alot ofthem stopped using vinyl a long time ago anyways. this isn't directed at anyone in particular im just going off the numerous threads i've read. i think its a shame, once vinyl goes i think their will be very little to distinguise djs by, anyone can get any track for next to nothing. Also their aren't that many decent mp3 sites which means every will be using the same ones, no more searching for good tracks noone has found yet
yes i agree its cheaper, but i think the scene will struggle now everyones moving to cds, anyone can get any track far too easy
Personally i think it will inhance the scene. There was one big problem with vinyl and that was that you couldnt get what you wanted for months at a time and by the time it came out it was old. now all thats changed as sites like audio jelly & beatport are getting tracks in well before they get a press on vinyl and even tracks that didnt make it to the vinyl which i thinks great.
i suppose it has its good and bad points, i still can't see the big guns like chemical and juno giving in anytime soon, so ill be happy aslong as i can get records from somewhere lol
Yeah i dnt think it'll happen anytime soon. this debate has been around a long time now and MP3s still havent took over, they've grown but there not quite there yet. I personally think theres room for both but we'll have to wait and see.
http://www.abovethesky.com/ vinyls is really cheap on above the sky now but its still open wonder for how long
I'm surprised to hear that. You'll just have to get them all from me now M-X: mp3s aren't ruling the industry, mainly because most people aren't paying for them, and don't think they should be - they only make up a very small percentage of music sold at the moment, although it is rising VERY quickly. It will be at least a year or two before sales are equalling vinyl - even in the sorry state it's in presently. But as I said that only reflects the people buying them, NOT playing them. so although they may be getting played a lot more, they aren't contributing to the industry at all really - at least not at the moment. I think it's really sad that music is now regarded by people as just another bit of digital information on a disk, and not a hand crafted product by the producer, but that is the way things go, I suppose. Something you should bear in mind if you are exclusively using CDRs - they can degrade to unplayable in as little as two years if the pigment used is low of quality: Taken from another site: TOOL TO TEST CD-R DISKS Posted Jul 11, 2005 07:32 PM PST Category: COMPUTERS/SECURITY Long time readers will recall that the issue of CD-R longevity thrust itself upon me a while back when archives of my wife's music from 5 years ago turned out to have erased themselves. To recap, there are three dyes used in CD-Rs. Cyanine, Azo, and Phthalocyanine. Phthalocyanine.is the longest lasting, Cyanine is the least. CD-Rs made with Cyanine can lose the data saved on them in just 2 years. Finding out which dye is used on any given brand of CD-R can be tricky. I purchased some Maxell CD-Rpro, which on the label and on Maxell's website promise a 100 year lifespan. But, on opening the package, the disks look like they are Cyanine. Granted, color cannot always tell you what the disk is made with, since manufacturers often add their own coloration, but still, I was suspicious. So, I discovered the tool at the end of this link. It reads the ATIP track pre-written onto blank CD-Rs that holds information the burner needs to work with a given disk and decodes it to tell you where the disk is from, who really made it, and most important, what dye is used on it. No surprise, the supposed 100 year Maxells are made with Cyanine dye. BIG surprise, the el cheapo COMP USA disks turned out to be using Phthalocyanine dye, the most stable and long lasting, as are the Philips I got at 50 disks for just $15 at Office Depot. So, if you are concerned about longevity in CD-Rs, you just might want to grab this LITTLE TOOL Or this one http://www.cd-rw.org/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/cdridentifier.cfm#ggviewer-offsite-nav-8991032 Worth bearing in mind.
