Don't forget the dinosaurs!

[Anastasius]

I don’t know whether Naxos have an app rather than a webpage but if they do the app may well provide gapless playback. I sometimes run an opera from an iPad (streaming Qubuz) then connect a small Apple dac which is essentially a lighting connecter to mini jack socket . I can then plug my extension lead into that. It’s weird because streaming from the Met opera on both app and website (through Firefox as the website doesn’t work on Safari ) is gapless..

Different systems. CD's have gaps. The Mer opera is a recording of the entire thing without gaps.

No gaps on Qobuz !

[LMcD]

Step 2.5 make sure the CD selected is the one that belongs in the selected CD case

You're absolutely right of course, and I've also been advised that I missed out what is arguably the most important step of all - 3.5 (Press the 'Play' button).
Regarding the life expectancy of the CD, it's worth pointing out that in 2010 it was confidently predicted that cheques would be abolished by 2018...

[Anastasius]

This is from statista. CD’s look like they are headed the way of the dinosaurs.l

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...ry-since-1999/

I also think that DVD rental companies like Cinema Paradiso will go the same way which is a pity.

[hmvman]

Step 2.5 make sure the CD selected is the one that belongs in the selected CD case

Step 1.5. Make sure there is actually a CD in the case selected. At our music society we have had guest presenters who turn up with empty CD cases!

[Ein Heldenleben]

Different systems. CD's have gaps. The Mer opera is a recording of the entire thing without gaps.

No gaps on Qobuz !

The Met streams are banded like a CD so that you can access specific parts of an Opera .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

CD's have gaps.

They don't, but some rogue CD players insert gaps between tracks for some unknown reason, even though the tracks of separate items are followed by silence anyway. I have over 100 recordings of Eine Alpensinfonie, most of which have 22 continuous tracks, and there are no gaps between any of them.

[Keraulophone]

I have over 100 recordings of Eine Alpensinfonie

That’s some peak.

[Nick Armstrong]

Simple solution. Switch off any Auto-update. There is, for me, precious little in all the upgrades etc that I stay put....

Hmmm.... I tend to get them for the upgrades to security which I’ve always assumed they include (agreed, most of the other aspects I don’t care about)...

[Cockney Sparrow]

I also think that DVD rental companies like Cinema Paradiso will go the same way which is a pity.

Film Program, R4 11 March:

“The last thing you might expect to survive lockdown would be a video shop. And yet Twentieth Century Flicks in Bristol is still hanging on in there. Co-owner Dave Taylor reveals his survival tactics and his new found love for Tom Hanks movies.”

I think they also hope to open again their mini-cinema where they will show films (well, DVDs I suppose) to small groups by arrangement - which was very popular.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sz8w

[LMcD]

In 2011, the Director General of the BBC announced the 'beginning of the end' of long-wave transmission in the UK. Are we in fact still only at the end of the beginning?
Norway's widely reported switch to an all-digital radio service still doesn't apply to local services, which continue to broadcast on FM.

[Ein Heldenleben]

They don't, but some rogue CD players insert gaps between tracks for some unknown reason, even though the tracks of separate items are followed by silence anyway. I have over 100 recordings of Eine Alpensinfonie, most of which have 22 continuous tracks, and there are no gaps between any of them.

In the case of that work would they be more like crevasses?

[cloughie]

I also think that DVD rental companies like Cinema Paradiso will go the same way which is a pity.

I’d have thought a techno such as you would stream all your films!

[LMcD]

[QUOTE=Heldenleben;843672]In the case of that work would they be more like crevasses?[/QUOTE]

These can be a REAL problem with Ralph Vaughan Williams's 7th and Peter Maxwell Davies's 8th symphonies.

[Dave2002]

I also think that DVD rental companies like Cinema Paradiso will go the same way which is a pity.

Perhaps if they are supplying Blu Rays they'll stay viable for a while. One of my friends has invested heavily in serious hi-fi and serious cinema kit, and generally doesn't like anything less than the best Blu Ray standards - including surround sound. I think that level of quality is difficult to achieve with streaming and downloads might take a long while and be inconvenient. So for high quality watching Blu Rays or similar physical discs may still be OK for a few years.

Many of us are not so bothered about video quality anyway, more interested in the content - the plot line etc.

However quality levels for audio streaming have improved, and may for some people now be better than CDs, plus it seems that many people value convenience and accessibility more anyway. It does look as though the market for physical objects will decline.

[teamsaint]

Perhaps if they are supplying Blu Rays they'll stay viable for a while. One of my friends has invested heavily in serious hi-fi and serious cinema kit, and generally doesn't like anything less than the best Blu Ray standards - including surround sound. I think that level of quality is difficult to achieve with streaming and downloads might take a long while and be inconvenient. So for high quality watching Blu Rays or similar physical discs may still be OK for a few years.

Many of us are not so bothered about video quality anyway, more interested in the content - the plot line etc.

However quality levels for audio streaming have improved, and may for some people now be better than CDs, plus it seems that many people value convenience and accessibility more anyway. It does look as though the market for physical objects will decline.

Patterns are hard to predict though.Sales of physical books have proved very robust, even though the tech for ebooks is easy to use and well established, and prices for ebooks are often very cheap.
In particular, the physical book market , non fiction especially, has trended somewhat towards higher price and quality in recent years.