Nah we stopped at mp3.
Me, a GenX looking at the drive I filled when Napster was first introduced.
Nah, what’s actually annoying is taking the name of every movie and TV show I liked and slapping them onto lame soulless versions designed to appeal to “modern audiences.” Why are modern audiences so fucking lame now? Internet brain rot I guess.
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What loser actually believes they need to replace stuff that still works?
Do cars even come with CD players any more? I know my last three computers didn’t.
External drives are a thing. Old cars are a thing.
It’s really fucking hard to listen to a record on a road trip
I wonder if there’s a modded Rolls-Royce out there with a gyroscope stabilised record player in it.
There were car record players, just not very common
I download all my music and play it off my phone
That’s what all of us smart kids did in the 90s when the car radio cassette players got replaced with cd players. /s
Well the problem is they stop making the previous thing. Who wants a music collection that is 1/4 records, 1/4 casette, 1/4 CD, 1/4 MP3s? And still you need Spotify to listen to some stuff that is simply not available anywhere else.
Who wants a music collection that is 1/4 records, 1/4 casette, 1/4 CD, 1/4 MP3s?
Me! The ratios are off but that’s basically my music collection.
Also have VHS tapes, DVDs, GBC/A carts, Xbox OG disks, NES carts, and a hacked PS Vita (no carts yet).
Records and tapes wear out tho. CDs somewhat too if you don’t treat them well.
At least mp3s last forever if you manage your backups.
That’s no fun though.
And all the physicals can be backed up to digital by just downloading them from slsk, you’ll be fine.
Everything could be MP3s or on CDs if you want it
The original comment was that people replacing their collections are dumb. But if your original collection was vinyl then everything can’t be MP3s unless you replace it. So there are valid reasons for replacing (carrying a record player around with you isn’t very practical).
Sounds like an absolutely normal collection to me. Especially if you consider that not every recording is released on every medium.
I must be less of a collector and more focused on practicalities. I am not really listening to music in front of a stereo, I’m using headphones while out and about walking/public transport, etc. I might find some CDs, cassette tapes, or even records in my house somewhere, but I’m not actively listening to those. I can’t listen to records, cassettes, or CDs while out and about. My only option is digital files. I have ripped some of these from CDs but I’d guess I’ve re-bought more than I’ve ripped.
I think that variety would be cool to have.
It would be cool to collect but if you bought on vinyl then want to listen on the go then you’re gonna need to get the album again in another medium.
Or you could just rip the vinyl
Do people actually do that, as opposed to the alternatives? It seems like a lot of work when the digital files are easily available online.
Those poor folks, having the money to buy so many things. The younger generations who can’t afford just the subscription part really should work to be more understanding. It must be awful to have tons of money and keep using it to buy different versions of the same things over and over because you decided to keep doing that.
I hate that mp3 became the standard and not .ogg, it can store better quality in similar filesizes and yet everyone decides to use mp3.
Sure, flac/wav files are the best when it comes to audio quality but they take too much space, especially if you’re storing your whole audio library on your phone.
FLAC or bust. Stupid to have a lossy standard when storage is cheap.
And I hate that Opus, being even better than ogg, is even less spread out.
Artists could just release files from their own website in all of the forms available. If they get so god damned little of the money Spotify and other steal from them, they should just release for better terms themselves equivalent to listening to music 24hours a day. Then you can just connect with whatever is on the network run by those artists.
A fediverse streaming audio paid with a subscription where 100 percent of your membership goes to the music you listened to. The artist’s should then have to pay the fediverse audio to be a member of the network so they the network can pay the tech overhead. Which If it’s kept super simple and intentionally NOT a SOCIAL media app, just a straight up media app.
Then artists could also have more control over what and where they get played. Could be an administration nightmare but a worthy challenge to offer such an amazing thing.
I would try to revive winamp through the fediverse somehow
Make it, then.
It’s a good as way as any to discover just how intractable a business problem it really is, especially when you have deeply entrenched interests manipulating the industry.
I don’t have that skillset, nor do I have the luxury or comfort to gain that skillset. I have too many problems of my own Im ready failing at managing
MP3 is ca. 5x as old. There was no Ogg back then.
Btw, why does the CPU need support for a audio/video format and not the DAC/GPU?
It’s got to be because people liked the name/extension better, right? MP3 was so much easier to pronounce and cooler sounding than ogg. Same thing with DivX.
Nobody “needs” to do that. You chose to.
Somebody here is too young to get it. Tapes and records coexisted. CDs replaced both.
Nope tapes and records didn’t co-exist, we had record players built into our cars. And you had to be careful with the cheap ones because the speed of the car was directly tied to the speed of the record player. Funny story but that’s also how the Charleston was invented
they certainly filled separate niches. i mean, imagine having to carry a vinyl-disk-man…
For the long time, tapes were seen as cheap but bad alternative, if you want to really listen to music you needed vinyl. Tapes themselves and players that didn’t sound like shit were quite expensive, and even those were breaking all the time, meanwhile everyone has a vinyl player that plays nice and reliable. By the time good consumer tape player came about, it was very quickly followed by a cd player that was the best of both worlds.
mp3s were the peak. But they didn’t go anywhere. I still use them.
Shoulda learned to sail IG
As someone that went though all that, i prefer YouTube premium music. Way cheaper than the other choices and way better.
Nah -real world gen xer here. We had to do all that yes. I personally converted all my tapes and 8-tracks using the pc to mp3 back 20 years ago. Albums too … those days you could use Adobe audition to remove all clicks and pops, scratches etc. I kept the droputs in my favorite cassettes as after playing them for years because I’d expect them. We’re pissed because in a very short span of 40 years the world got 100 percent shittier for us. I did personally have Dark Side of the Moon on Quadrophonic 8 track, cassette, LP, and Cd. If you’re wondering if Quadrophonic sound was better than modern sound, it was not.
There’s a Bluray that includes the quadraphonic mix re-taken from the masters.
It’s how it should have been and is well worth a listen if you’ve got 4 matching speakers and are willing to fiddle with an audio interface to get it to play right.
Also growing up under the shadow of nuclear annihilation at any moment & being keenly aware of it from movies etc, which made it clear early on that everything is hopeless bullshit & every glimmer that things might get better turned out to be more bullshit & now that global warmings really starting to kick off it’s like WELP
I don’t need a subscription; I just need a gigantic hard drive.
I have 1.5TB in my PC; I have a nearly 3TB music collection.
The benefits of having very specific and narrow music taste. My entire lifetime music library is under 5.5 GB. A one off new song I I like is a very rare find and is not difficult to buy DRM free to add to the library.
I think I do have a narrow taste in music, it’s just that the taste is “sad anger about love and lonliness” and that’s the vibe of so, so many songs. 🤣
Sorry to break it to you, but 3 TB is nowhere near gigantic by today’s standards.
Millennials didn’t have it any better. And now my kids are all into nostalgia and I regret all the DVDs I got rid of only 7 or 8 years ago.
I get the desire to not hoard, but a dvd binder doesn’t take up much space.
Do most people just normally get rid of shit they spent good money on that still works just because it isn’t the new hotness? That seems so damn alien to me.
I threw out all my old CDs, but I’ve since converted all the stuff I wanted to keep to FLAC and everything is digital now. I really, really hate clutter.
I’ve also had to move house a lot over the years, so cutting down anything you have to haul around is a good bet. Learned the hard way some 15 years back when I had to leave my books behind on a cross country move and I could only take what fit in the back of my hatchback. I moped around sad about it for a while after the move and my wife insisted I get a Kindle. It was life changing. Now all my books, games, and music are digital, stored on my NAS in RAID5, as well as with offline backups for most of it.
No I had a box full of DVDs and cases and when we cleaned out the garage I kept a few but almost all I had already replaced with digital copies anyway. And sure I still have those now but my kids are big on watching DVDs and videos the “old fashioned” way.
Ehhh I get appreciating vinyl, crazy good quality and ritual. I definitely get appreciating VHS, there something really aesthetic/vibey about tape tracking artifacts and all that. I feel nothing about DVDs. Now they’re just mediocre, not vibey like VHS or beautiful like files on a HDD or Blu-Ray. I only have a couple DVDs I’ve kept over the years, DVDs of rare stuff that I can’t find on public or private trackers. The rest of everything is files on hard drives that look infinitely nicer than a DVD would, or VHSes with commercials from the 90s and 00s.
Hence why I got rid of them lol, but the same kid who helped me go through them and pick out which ones to keep now says we should have kept all of them.
