Dennis Nicholls
Senior HTF Member
Reason CDs don't sell as well as they used to: PRICE.
Not in classical music. There are great bargains out there nowadays. For example, I got a Sony 60 CD set of Beethoven's music for $26 at Amazon last year, and it's excellent - based around the David Zinman/Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich recordings. That's about 43 cents per disc.
Liner notes or lack thereof bother me too. A CD can hold both voice and data: why not a data track for the liner notes? It would have to be protected in some manner so that a CD player (as opposed to a PC) wouldn't attempt to play it as music and blow out your speakers. My Bach set has two CDs which contain all the liner notes - and all the lyrics etc. for all the cantatas etc. Same with the Beethoven set mentioned above.