CD Collections
Today a lot of people obtain their music via online services. The audio quality of downloaded music has improved quite a bit over the last couple of years, for the optimum fidelity however, you still can’t beat the quality of audio captured from a CD using a high bitrate lossless compression method. Even if you are perfectly satisfied with the audio quality of downloaded music, what about that large CD collection that you already have?
Purple Pine can capture your entire CD collection and provide you with the best possible transfer quality. Music captured this way isn’t encumbered by the dreaded DRM either; this allows you to have access to your music on any computer, mp3 player, or IPod without restriction. Don’t lose your music investment before decay sets in. Even though CDs are many times thought to last forever, this is not true. Some CDs will last for decades, others may not. It is possible for CDs to decay and delaminate, making them unreadable, once this happens, you have to buy the music again.
Purple Pine strongly advises against the downloading and use of ‘free’ music obtained by joining peer-to-peer network sites such as limewire, bearshare, and others. I will not even discuss the whole issue of copyrights and intellectual property rights; what is of most concern is that using these services opens up your computer to security vulnerabilities. Peer to peer is a gateway to viruses and malware, if you don’t understand how it works, you are allowing your computer to become part of a network of strangers, some of these ‘strangers’ have ill intentions and exploit these networks to launch their attacks. Even if you know how to keep your PC out of this network while gaining downloads, you are still receiving data derived from this environment. You don’t know what are downloading, or from where, or from who. Free music is not free when you have your personal information compromised and have to pay someone to clean the viruses and malware off of your computer.