{"id":946,"date":"2004-02-06T02:49:49","date_gmt":"2004-02-06T02:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-946.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"non-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/02\/06\/non-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-CDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

We went out on a short shopping trip yesterday afternoon. We bought some baby stuff (Fiona’s first dress) and some books (Tricia Sullivan’s Maul<\/i><\/a>, amongst others). I would also have picked up a copy of Sarah McLachlan’s new album, Afterglow<\/i><\/a>, but her record company seems not to have released it in CD format. Bummer! Instead, they’ve released it on some kind of shiny CD-sized disc that can only be played on “Home stereo equipment” and PCs running certain specific versions of Windows<\/a>. Bummer! So I bought Start Something<\/i><\/a> by the Lostprophets instead.<\/p>\n

Yes, there are ways of getting around copy-protected discs and DRM-locked music files<\/a>. But standing in the shop yesterday afternoon I was struck by an overwhelming wave of apathy. I love Sarah McLachlan’s music, and I would love to listen to her new album, but I really can’t be arsed trying to figure out how to get the songs off of the copy-locked CD and into iTunes. Because that’s the only way I listen to new music nowadays: we don’t have a stereo in our living room any more, we just have my PC and some speakers. The CD might<\/em> work in my car’s CD player, but that’s not much use if I want to listen to the disc while reading a book on my sofa.<\/p>\n

I feel like a PS2 owner who wants to play Halo<\/i><\/a> but can’t, because it’s an XBox exclusive title. Is this the future of music? Platform exclusives, and platform incompatibility?<\/a> If so, it sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We went out on a short shopping trip yesterday afternoon. We bought some baby stuff (Fiona’s first dress) and some books (Tricia Sullivan’s Maul<\/i><\/a>, amongst others). I would also have picked up a copy of Sarah McLachlan’s new album, Afterglow<\/i><\/a>, but her record company seems not to have released it in CD format. Bummer! Instead, they’ve released it on some kind of shiny CD-sized disc that can only be played on “Home stereo equipment” and PCs running certain specific versions of Windows<\/a>. Bummer! So I bought Start Something<\/i><\/a> by the Lostprophets instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}