spunker88

In the time of cd players, you could go to the store, buy a cd, pop it in and play it. This has always been the same with tapes, records, etc. But now people are getting rid of cd players and going for ipods and other mp3 players. This means that when people buy a cd they have to rip it, then transfer the files to the mp3 player, unless they buy online. Cd's are getting more and more obsolete every day. So the question is, what will bands put they're albums out on in the future? Most mp3 players with removable storage have sd cards. Will these be where you put in your favorite artists latest album someday.
Right now, cds are 700mb, and .cda tracks usually take up most of the cd.
SD cards go up to a couple gigs.
If music was put on a sd card, it would be in mp3 format, and this would take up a lot less.

Do you think sd or a similar card is going to be the future cd?

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Will SD ever replace CD?

psionandy

Nope... you'll just download them from Itunes etc.....

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Grentz

CDs are still superior for music

They offer high quality music (mp3 usually is not as perfect as cd audio, especially since most dont rip at cd quality (which is up in the 320kbps range)

also, a cd costs pennies, a 1gb sd card cost upwards of 60$......

star882

They'll probably switch to DVDs and use 5.1 audio at something like 192kHz and 24 bits. Oh, and they'll probably ruin much of it with DRM junk.

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wmcjhi

Yea, DRM is getting out of control. Also good point on the cost of the media, although I sure would like some hi-fi 24bit 5.1 DVD audio...as a standard, not one or two dvd audio discs in each store.

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Howard2k

There have been some releases on SD already. No more than a handful I don't imagine. I know two: Rolling Stones and Robbie Williams. There might have been more.


MP3 is still a lossy format. Even at 320Kb/s there is loss, it's just a question of whether the loss is perceptible or not.

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star882

Couldn't they use FLAC or WAV inside ZIP?

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Howard2k

Surely could. Or Apple Lossless ;) (but really...)

I've never tried to zip a FLAC file but I imagine there would be virtually no compression. I could be wrong though.

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mikeyp

plus cost on sd is way higher then a cd, i bet we will see cd player addons for ipods and the like that ripo the cd to player

spunker88

Sd cards are so small, they can't cost that much to make. Its just the fact that they are so small, and newer technology. In the future, sd cards may be a lot cheaper.

Grentz

Originally Posted by spunker88

Sd cards are so small, they can't cost that much to make. Its just the fact that they are so small, and newer technology. In the future, sd cards may be a lot cheaper.

they may come down in price in the future, but it does cost a lot to make them. there are lots of chips and circuits and stuff inside vs. cds that are really a chunk of plastic with film on it. even when they first came out, cds were not really expensive, 1gb sd when it came out was in the $100s!

mikeyp

plus its so much easier to make a cd, all they do is stamp them, they dont burn um

Howard2k

Actually they "stick" them :) It's a label.

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cneufeld

The original poster's question doesn't make much sense to me... It's kind of like asking "Will hard drives replace floppies?" 10 years ago. As it turns out, one of them has been replaced, but not by the other. They're solutions to different problems, IMHO.

I think it's more likely that a different technology will take over for CD's. Ideally (again, IMHO), it would be the size of a SD card, but with the ability to carry the standard 74 minutes of music. But to make it economically viable, it would have to cost pennies to produce. And I suspect than anything that has memory chips/circuits in it won't fit that bill. Perhaps some form of holographic memory that can be reproduced with photographic techniques...

JMJSelect

I think that in the future, when the sd media becomes cheaper, sd music players could start to compete with hdd music(video, picture, bla bla bla) players. but it can only compete when prices fall to cd price range.

I think that sd players would be cheaper and the hdd players would be sd capable and have globs of space(ie 250 maybe even 500 gigs?).

I don't think that the whole downloadable music thing will last that long. I mean that it wont be the perferred way of acquiring music. something will replace it soon.

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