Talk:Digital download (music)

Yes, this article is immensely misleading, or maybe you people would only like to recognise the US Music Industry, when we should be recognising the whole world's music industries. Koda Kumi's "Koi No Tsubomi" received 2,500,000 Legal Downloads (http://www.avex.co.jp/j_site/ir_news/pdf/060728_1.pdf) like Utada Hikaru's "Keep Tryin" X2RADialbomber 07:29, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

This article is misleading... the best-selling is Kelly Clarkson in the US but all around it's Utada Hikaru with Keep Tryin had over 2,500,000 downloads

This entry is music-centric. Digital Downloads also refer to computer software downloads as well. I am new to this whole editing thing and need help setting this up. (User talk:Tinjaw)

Hopefully I was able to clean this article up a bit. Eb.eric 21:46, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Looks like someone didn't like my fix. Have a look to see if he should have reverted it. Eb.eric 22:08, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I reverted it back, because the old version had vandalism. A third party still needs to look at this. Eb.eric 14:43, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

digital and download
Aren't downloads always digital? --Abdull 17:05, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm waiting for the recording industry to invent a magical "analogue download". This should be moved to a proper term, such as "legal music download"... --85.134.141.187 19:41, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, this makes paid transfers over the internet sound like being "more digital" than CDs or DVDs. Maybe the etymology of this term should be explained here, like it is done on Flashlight where one could wonder why a lamp of steady output is called like that. -- J7N —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.99.184.75 (talk) 08:25, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh good lord. Here I am trying to discourage everyone I know from using the term "digital download" (because, of course, it's an utterly idiotic term since ALL downloads are digital), and lo and behold someone's created a Wikipedia article with that exact title. Clayhalliwell (talk) 00:42, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

NPV
This is my first Wikipedia dilemma, so feel free to help out.

I took out the "slight" from the following sentence:

This results in a slight loss of sound quality due to additional encoding/decoding of the music (called transcoding).

There's one part in me, which believes that transcoding is bad. The true ideal is the analogue signal in a concert hall designed by true sound aficionados (or any sound occurring in nature for that matter). In that sense any digitalization sucks. However, if you compress music with a lossy format and then transcode it into another lossy format that's more then a 'slight loss' of sound quality.

Nevertheless I wonder if my personal bias against an industry that effectively killed music had a say in this probably minor edit (which isn't flagged as such). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CaptainZapp (talk • contribs) 21:27, 13 May 2007 (UTC).

Merger proposal
Since most of the notable information in this article is more broadly applicable to Digital distribution, I propose that it be merged into that article, and this article be turned into a redirect page. Clayhalliwell (talk) 20:48, 28 February 2008 (UTC)