Hard copy or electronic copy of an album?

• Dec 15, 2008

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eye see soles

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What do you prefer?

If you purchase a cd and burn the songs to a disc, it can't really get damaged. The cd also offers the best quality.

An e-copy like from itunes may be lost somewhere down the line by accident. Is the quality better than on the cd?

I'm not sure which one I prefer.

 

• Dec 15, 2008

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faulkit28

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i like a hard copy myself

 

• Dec 15, 2008

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we get money

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If I'm paying I better be getting my damn booklet and disc and all that !!#%

 

• Dec 15, 2008

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ctdaprince

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Originally Posted by WE GET MONEY

If I'm paying I better be getting my damn booklet and disc and all that !!#%

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• Dec 15, 2008

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untitled

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i used to care, now i don't.....

mp3/acc all the way.

 

• Dec 15, 2008

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Originally Posted by WE GET MONEY

If I'm paying I better be getting my damn booklet and disc and all that !!#%

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Seriously. Paying for music digitally? That @+*+ does not get my computer putin...

 

• Dec 15, 2008

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dmasta718

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Hard Copy.

 

• Dec 15, 2008

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thagreatj

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Originally Posted by hugebird

Originally Posted by WE GET MONEY

If I'm paying I better be getting my damn booklet and disc and all that !!#%

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Seriously. Paying for music digitally? That @+*+ does not get my computer putin...

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only did it wit HHouse

 

• Dec 15, 2008

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purplehazze96

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Originally Posted by WE GET MONEY

If I'm paying I better be getting my damn booklet and disc and all that !!#%

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• Dec 15, 2008

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htownhooper31

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I've never bought a digital copy and I couldn't see myself doing otherwise unless I have no choice

 

• Dec 15, 2008

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shaq diesel 34

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Hard copy no doubt. Though sometimes it is easy to get that #*% instantly.

 

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send one

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Hard copy always.

I NEED to read the booklet.

 

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melomandnvnuggets

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Originally Posted by WE GET MONEY

If I'm paying I better be getting my damn booklet and disc and all that !!#%

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• Dec 15, 2008

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fenixconnexion

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OG CD FTW

 

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n3ff 3000

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I thought music bought from iTunes was better than CDQ?

 

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I rather have the CD, why? Because their something called Sound quality. Mp3 are just bits and pieces of the music and losses aspect of the sound cause itscompressed. If you listen to Jazz music you'll understand what im talking about.

 

• Dec 15, 2008

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I buy hard copies. Some Singles I'll buy off itunes but I prefer to DL Singles ([unforgivable] FOR FREE [/unforgivable]). One Hit wonders are not theartists I like to support.

 

• Dec 15, 2008

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n3ff 3000

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I thought iTunes was like 192kbps, oh well. What is CDQ in terms of kbps?

 

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melomandnvnuggets

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Too be honest I recently bought 808's and heartbreak hardcopy cd so that I'd have the booklet and could look at all the credits and shyyyt but the damnletters were too small and I couldn't read any of that shyyyt

, so Idon't know if I'll be buying many hardcopy cd's if it's going to be like that.

 

• Dec 15, 2008

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geminifly

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hard copy by far

 

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asmathews

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hard copy

 

• Dec 16, 2008

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illionaire

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The irony of us being here right now saying we prefer the "hard copy".

 

• Dec 16, 2008

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tupac003

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Like most have said,

If I am going to spend the money I want something in my hands.

Plus I can just rip the cd.

 

• Dec 16, 2008

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Originally Posted by iHateTimeDotCom

Originally Posted by N3FF 3000

I thought iTunes was like 192kbps, oh well. What is CDQ in terms of kbps?

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cds are wav files... dunno how many kbps but i kno theyre 16 bit...

mp3 is gonna lose quality everytime cuz its not a lossless format... no matter how many kbps its compressed... and once audio is compressed there's no undo...

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Yeah the maximum bitrate of mp3 is 320kbps (correct me if I'm wrong.). With FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) you can get really high bitrates,I'm thinking about 1000kbps (again I'm not sure). iTunes is nowhere near that.

 

• Dec 16, 2008

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I'll buy a hard copy if its an album I really want most other stuff I grab of the itunes store was like just old albums I always wanted from a back in thedays but never got.