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Do most people finally realised that digital music sound bad?

Look at this chart, does this chart provide proof that starting year 1999 many people finally realised that digital music sound bad and stop spending on digital music? Even with the increase of digital download and streaming, the total revenue is still going downhill !

Update:

This chart come from businessinsider, title of the article:

"The REAL Death Of The Music Industry"

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    I can prove that digital sounds GOOD.       

             

    The problem is MP3 at low data rates.  

    I use the highest rate available form any source so it has the least-detrimental effect.    

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Now with compressed audio, file size is only about 4MB to 5MB for one song.

    This allow people to share or distribute the files easily to friends, relatives and among private club members.

    And if you are able to find the song in utube, people with know how will be able to record it into compressed audio file too.

    Once it is in compressed audio file, distribute and storage become very easy.

    You see people pay less but that does not means less people listen to music.

    This is one of the reason result in the decline of the revenue in the music industry. 

    If the music producer distribute high resolution audio with copy protection then consumer individual will not be able to copy paste the audio file to thumb drive, to upload to sharing web-storage, to burn to disc...etc.

    But look at the current situation, compress audio is the format preference by most people, because the needs to share and distribute the files easily to friends, relatives and among private club members.

    Well, the consequences is the less revenue received by the music producer.

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Look at the 1970s period, and the peak at 1978, when the most popular media were Vinyl Records, and the mastering system used were Reel-to-reel audio tape recording.

    And then begining 1979, digital mastering started to replace reel-to-reel tape mastering even when the final product is Vinyls and cassette tapes, then you see the sudden steep drop in the revenue.

    Lot of best songs ever written during the 70s

    10CC – I am not in love

    Air Supply – Greatest Hits

    Air Supply – The one that you love

    Al Stewart – Year of the cat

    Alan O’Day – Under cover angel

    Andy Gibbs – Greatest Hits

    Andy Gibbs – I just want to be your everything

    Andy Williams – The way we were

    Anita Ward – Ring my bell

    Bee Gees – Don’t forget to remember

    Bellamy Brothers – Let your love flow

    Blondie – Heart of glass

    Bonnie Tyler – It’s a heartache

    Bread – If

    Bryan Adams – Heaven

    Carly Simon – You are so vain

    Carole King – It’s too late

    Carpenters – Yesterday once more

    Chicago - If you leave me now

    Chicago – You are the Inspiration

    Crystal Gayle – Don ‘t makes it my brown eyes blue

    Danny Osmond – Puppy love

    David Gates – Goodbye girl

    David Soul – Don’t give up on us

    David Soul – Don’t give up on us

    Debby Boone – You light up my life

    Deep Purple – Smoke on the water

    Eagles – Greatest Hits, Vol I and Vol II

    Eagles – Hotel California

    Eagles – Lyin’ eyes

    Eagles Best of my love

    England Dan & John Ford – I’d really love to see you tonight

    Eric Carmen – All by myself

    Fleetwood Mac – Dreams, and Gypsy

    Gilbert O’Sullivan – Alone again

    Gordon Lightfort – If you could read my mind

    Helen Reddy – Angie baby

    Johnny Nash - I can see clearly now

    Kenny Rogers – Lucille

    Lynn Anderson – Rose Garden

    Manhattans – Kiss and say goodbye, and Hurt

    Mary McGregor – Torn between two lovers

    Maxine Nightingale – Right back where we started from

    Melissa Manchester – Don’t cry out loud

    Minnie Riperton – Lovin’ you

    Nazareth – Love hurts

    Nicolette Larson – Lotta love

    Nilsson – without you

    Randy Van Warmer – Just when I needed you most

    Reo Speedwagon – Can’t fight this feeling

    Rita Coolidge – We’re all alone

    Roberta Flack – Killing me softly

    Rod Stewart – Do Ya Think I’m Sexy

    Rod Stewart – I don’t want to talk about it

    Samantha Sang – Emotion

    Scorpion – Still loving you

    Shocking Blue – Venus

    Smokie – Living next door to Alice

    Terry Jacks – Season in the sun

    The Emotions – Best of my love

    The Four Seasons – December 1963 (Oh what a night)

    The knack – My Sharona

    Wings & Paul McCartney – Mull of Kintyre

    Yvonne Elliman – If I can’t have you

    Yvonne Elliman – Love me

    ....there are many more I missed........

  • 2 weeks ago

    No. Properly created digital audio has the best quality of any format.

    That is nothing to do with digital downloads or streaming in MP3 or other compressed formats.

    Those is generally rather poor quality by comparison to CD quality, which is the lowest standard for any serious digital format (but vastly better than anything before it).

    Blame the music industry itself - it started trying to dictate the styles of music people "should" like rather than publishing all performers and letting people choose.

    They largely turned away from bands with real musicians & tried to create their own "property" acts, performers they had under contract - mostly just vocalists (or actors) singing to backing tracks performed by session musicians.

    I believe it was partly a reaction to the many "Supergroups" that existed 20 - 30 years ago, that could dictate their own terms to the music companies.

    They did not want to create any more bands that could become independent and powerful, so no (or very few) more "self contained" acts, only their fabricated ones. 

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