Survey: We haven't totally abandoned CDs

[Angel Tarragon]

Digital music may be the hot media thing, but consumers still overwhelmingly prefer traditional CDs and radios. A new survey from International Data Corp. released Tuesday finds that while ownership of satellite radios and digital music players is on the rise, older audio formats are still more popular. The study shows 53 percent of consumers own a CD player, while just 6 percent own a digital music player. Another 6 percent have satellite radio, though an additional 12 percent said there's a high likelihood they would buy it within the next year. Four percent of consumers have used a for-pay music download service. Overall, 70 percent of U.S. households spend money monthly on recorded music, with 23 percent spending between $10 and $24.99.

 

[Turanil]

Digital music may be the hot media thing, but consumers still overwhelmingly prefer traditional CDs and radios.

[RANT MODE]
Even more costly than going from 3.5 to 4e, I will certainly NOT buy again all the music I have on CDs (bought CDs) in another format! In the worst of cases I will stop listening to music altogether!!
[/RANT MODE]

 

[RithTheAwakener]

CD's seem more useful to me. Having an mp3 player may be nice, but say you format your computer.... all your music vanishes into thin air.

i like the hardcopy

 

[Angel Tarragon]

CD's seem more useful to me. Having an mp3 player may be nice, but say you format your computer.... all your music vanishes into thin air.

i like the hardcopy

Unless you back it up. I have my entire CD collection as .wma files backed up onto 4 DVDs.

 

[RithTheAwakener]

i need a dvd burner then

 

[Angel Tarragon]

i need a dvd burner then

Heck, I need a new one. With todays DVD burners I could back up my entire collection to two dual layer discs in one hour instead of four. I'm tired of my 1X DVD burner.

 

[Meloncov]

I asume they aren't counting computers as digital music players?
Either way, that would skew the results.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Unless you back it up. I have my entire CD collection as .wma files backed up onto 4 DVDs.

Uhg, worst format ever. Crippled my microsofts control of the format.

Give me a solid clean mp3 anyday, encoded to at 128.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

The problem with CDs (and DVDs *sob*) is that the media won't generally survive more than a decade. They're degrading even as we speak. So even if we WANT to avoid buying everything again in a new format, by necessity we'll have to.

I've two document-boxes of DVDs and about 50 CDs, and that's going to be expensive to replace...

 

[GlassJaw]

Uhg, worst format ever. Crippled my microsofts control of the format.

Give me a solid clean mp3 anyday, encoded to at 128.

Ain't that the truth. Even better, I like a variable bit rate of 192/224/256.

I LOVE digital media. I can't remember the last time I bought a CD. Physical media seems so dated to me.

What I really want is a USB port in my car stereo. I can just fill my 1 GB flash drive with tunes and I'm set. No more lugging around a stupid CD case.