Post by tailspn June 17, 2012 (1 of 5)
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The music industry was at a crossroads when that article came out in 2005. Unfortunately, the industry did get behind SACD in any big way (for reasons that I don't understand) and that hesitation allowed downloads to become the defacto format of choice for most people in 2012.
Physical media of every stripe seems to be in steep decline. (Physical) music stores have gone the way of the Dodo. SACD and vinyl seem to hang on now as hard to come by, audiophile relics used by a small niche within a niche of music lovers. The rest of the music consuming world could seemingly care less.
I had the opportunity to evaluate a friends server based music system recently. Despite the gee-wiz quality of being able to scroll through flashy pictograms and (supposedly) the convenience of having an entire music collection at one's fingertips all the time, I found the server music system to be a confusing, buggy, nightmare of aggravation and inconvenience.
Scrolling through menus and sub-menus was super slow in comparison to just getting up and putting on another SA-CD or vinyl record. Many folders which tantalized with flashy album art turned out to be empty due to faulty uploading. Songs would cut off mid-stream (faulty uploading again). It took an enormous amount of time to figure out why things were not working and then the solutions employed (one after the other) did not seem to be correcting the problems. Before we knew it, hours had gone by addressing computer/server glitches rather than listening to any music.
Is this supposed to be progress?
The entire experience left me yearning for the simplicity of picking up an SACD, putting it in the player, pressing play and enjoying music.
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Post by seth June 18, 2012 (4 of 5)
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Celebidache2000 said:
Scrolling through menus and sub-menus was super slow in comparison to just getting up and putting on another SA-CD or vinyl record. Many folders which tantalized with flashy album art turned out to be empty due to faulty uploading. Songs would cut off mid-stream (faulty uploading again). It took an enormous amount of time to figure out why things were not working and then the solutions employed (one after the other) did not seem to be correcting the problems. Before we knew it, hours had gone by addressing computer/server glitches rather than listening to any music.
Is this supposed to be progress?
The entire experience left me yearning for the simplicity of picking up an SACD, putting it in the player, pressing play and enjoying music.
Condemning all music servers based on what sounds like a rather terrible one someone has put together is a bit shortsighted.
By far the easiest thing to do is just use iTunes to manage the data. Tens of millions of people are doing this already without incident, but most are obviously using low-rez files. But the point is that iTunes interface works just fine.
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Multichannel is the reason, I believe. Theatre Dolby cannot compare with six separate full range channels, IMHO. Is Dolby Hi-Fi or Hi-Action? Regards.
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