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I mentioned this when it was talked about a few days in the general discussion thread, but I really don't give a cat's arse about HMV going. It's a fucking awful experience going in to buy music there nowadays. I've been in 4 times in the past 3 years, and 3 of them I have gift vouchers for. I love the independent CD stores and have near my entire music collection bought on CD. I overuse amazon, but whenever there's been a proper CD store near me I've always spent more there than on amazon. I really liked how Fopp did things before they went bust, a good selection of cheap (£3-7) CDs. I shop in Rise in Bristol and Truck in Oxford fairly often now, but I wouldn't consider HMV worth a damn, haven't in about 6-7 years. It's a long time since it had any value as a music store.

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ouch! I feel your pain.

I've recently gone thru just one of my shelves of CDs to re-rip them to MP3, at a higher quality than I originally did them at. It took me too bleeding long just for that one shelf.

I can't remember now why I ripped them at 192bps - I'm guessing cos I was worried about disk space - but in hindsight it was bloody stupid of me. I've done them this time at 320bps and 'high quality q=2' ... but now I'm writing this I'm thinking I've been daft again and should have done them at 'very high quality q=0'.

While mp3's isn't the best format I could have used I've gone for that because of its total portability to just about any device. I've got fed up over the years of wanting to play a digital file and then finding that it's in an unsupported format for the device I want to play it on. At least mp3 gets round that.

While I wouldn't give up my CDs and still play them if I'm listening in the same room as they're kept in, I like my digitised collection - it means I can do a look-up when in a record shop just to double-check I'm not re-buying what I already have (something I've done a few times), and it means that I have access to my music from anywhere in the world.

It's also quite good for randomly putting on some music thru the main front-room stereo when I'm out of the house and freaking out the missus. :lol:

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ouch! I feel your pain.

I've recently gone thru just one of my shelves of CDs to re-rip them to MP3, at a higher quality than I originally did them at. It took me too bleeding long just for that one shelf.

I can't remember now why I ripped them at 192bps - I'm guessing cos I was worried about disk space - but in hindsight it was bloody stupid of me. I've done them this time at 320bps and 'high quality q=2' ... but now I'm writing this I'm thinking I've been daft again and should have done them at 'very high quality q=0'.

It's also quite good for randomly putting on some music thru the main front-room stereo when I'm out of the house and freaking out the missus. :lol:

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I’m shedding crocodile tears at HMV’s demise.

I remember too clearly how much they exploited and ripped off British music fans in the 1990s by fixing their CD prices at ridiculously high prices (£15-£16 was a standard price for a CD; that would be well over £20 in today’s money).

I used to smuggle loads of CDs back from the USA where CDs were less than half the UK price at the time. Luckily they didn’t put region-specific coding on CDs to stop this, although I’m sure they would have if they could have.

Despite loads of pressure from consumers for fair pricing of CDs at the time (the tabloid term ‘rip off Britain’ was coined around then with this kind of price fixing in mind), HMV’s attitude was basically ‘f**k off, we’ll charge whatever the market will bear, and by the way we effectively own the market’.

They alienated their customer base so much that when internet and supermarket retailers started competing, these core customers had no loyalty to HMV.

You reap what you sow in life.

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