Ripit Digital

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Mar 16, 2007

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Another great service find from Time Out Chicago this week, Ripit Digital is a local business whose time has come.

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I appreciate Linda's comments above, as most of the CDs (and VHS) I own are opera. I need the original packaging of the CD box set because this includes the libretto, plus essays an interviews.

ter369 on Mar 19, 2007

OOPS! INDIGNANT TYPO ALERT in my previous post! SORRY! Here is the CORRECTED version, THANKS: It seems nearly profane to treat this art form in such a disposable manner. As a music lover *and* a designer, I could not bear to part with the original art and liner notes of cd packaging! Who hasn't come home with a new record [cd, vinyl] purchase and looked at all the photos and read the notes cover to cover while listening to the new acquisition? Who hasn't bought an album on occasion [in any tangible format] just *for* the beautiful packaging? Sure, having digital copies can be convenient on our ipods [yep, I use one, too] but just as I would never have replaced my vinyl albums with cassette tape copies, I will neither settle for trading my audio library for sub-quality representations of the original releases in this format. Besides being orhaned from the aesthetics and total package-in-hand the musicians intended the listener to have, digital media is impermanent. Legitimately manufactured authorized cd releases [with their own sonic shortcomings] have a longer shelf life than DIY burned copy media has due to the physical etching of the data on the disc, whereas blank consumer writable cds do not. Do you really care so little about your audio a] to reduce the quality, and b] to see it gone in 6-24 months [or so] when the copy meets the end of its shelf-life? Linda on Mar 18, 2007