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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Really shows how many people value the music these days. They have hundreds of gigabytes of it on giant hard drives, but how much do they really care about any of it?

Exactly. I buy probably 50 tracks per month, and there is still stuff I forget about and rediscover a year later. Its a lot harder than it was back when it was vinyl too. There is no visual association with the music anymore. It used to be easy to remember. You'd think "oh, yeah, its that track with the orange cover with the butterfly on it, B side, first track." But now its just a list of files in Windows Explorer. I remember thinking about the music as that color, it created a visual association in my mind.

At least were now starting to see cover art associated with the mp3 files. It shows up in Traktor and other applications, makes it a bit easier to recapture that association.

As an artist who releases music, I can no longer do anything other than buy all my music. Its the right thing to do. I used to download music 4 or 5 years ago, but I stopped that practice once my ears got good enough to hear how low quality a 192 mp3 was. Same goes for software. There is tons of stuff I'd like to have, and probably could steal, but I don't want to install cracked stuff on my machine because I don't know what's in it and I feel like it compromises the stability of my machine. The good thing is that instead of being inundated with options, I can focus on what I do own and learn it to its full potential. That, ultimately, contributes so much more to the quality of my music than owning hundreds of plugins and not knowing how to get the most out of any of them.

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Originally posted by Eric J Exactly. I buy probably 50 tracks per month, and there is still stuff I forget about and rediscover a year later. Its a lot harder than it was back when it was vinyl too. There is no visual association with the music anymore. It used to be easy to remember. You'd think "oh, yeah, its that track with the orange cover with the butterfly on it, B side, first track." But now its just a list of files in Windows Explorer. I remember thinking about the music as that color, it created a visual association in my mind.

Haha, funny, I was writing up something really similar just before I saw you had posted this.

[Geezer moment]

I think back to when I was a kid and had a few dozen tapes and CDs, and listened to them over and over and over again. My collection expanded very slowly, and when I got a new CD I would sit in my bedroom and listen to it while doing nothing else. Not while web browsing, or driving around. Just sitting there, being still and hearing the music.

And albums were connected to things, like the store where I bought them, or the cover art, or track numbers. Now I mostly have a ton of MP3s that I listen to while browsing the web, or bookmarked YouTube vids, and my experience of music seems blurry and disembodied. All slurred together into Beatport samplings, forum posts, and Amazon recommendations. Nothing physical, just mostly Internet vapor and faceless files. Even the CDs I buy now just become MP3s or WAVs on my computer and then go sit on my shelf for years.

I love all the variety and accessibility of the net, but it does seem to take a bit of personality and charm out of things for me.

[/geezer moment]

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Originally posted by Sonic_c Now I had a trance track played by judge jules on BBC radio one even a youtube video of people raving to it in the ministry of sound in london absolutely huge track for me hasnt sold enough to get a payout from the download stores

Please excuse my ignorance here, but are you saying a track has to get a certain number of downloads before you get any money? So if your track doesn't get enough downloads the download store keeps 100% of the profit of the few times the track did sell? If so what specific download stores do you know have this policy? Just curious...

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Originally posted by Stealth Please excuse my ignorance here, but are you saying a track has to get a certain number of downloads before you get any money? So if your track doesn't get enough downloads the download store keeps 100% of the profit of the few times the track did sell? If so what specific download stores do you know have this policy? Just curious...

All of them have a threshold they hold the sales money untill you go over it some are £50 some maybe more. They dont keep it though you get it when you have sold enough for them to make a payment.

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