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Are gen xers always mad? Honestly, they seem to be the chilliest generation that's reached adulthood.
I'm still on mp3s. I have gigs of music on my Plex server and just use that. Fuck subscriptions.
Nobody's forcing anybody to use subscriptions... still got my MP3 collection from 20 years ago
Your collection is older than I am and I've been building up my MP3 playlist. Why pay or watch ads when you can simply have the files themselves?
I have a pretty massive mp3/flac collection but I still use Spotify for ease of listening to new music. I don't mind the $12/no because fuck ads and it's pretty much the only media subscription I have (except Hulu but that's more for my wife).
And the portable MP3 players are most likely still gonna work nowadays. Most of the them had AAA batteries so no need to worry about flat batteries, iPods have a lot of replacement parts as well as upgrades, ex. SD card conversion kits
I thought we were just adaptable and “whatever”.
I still have CDs and records. It’s all burned to digital format, but still. I can’t imagine that anyone misses cassettes.
I don't think anyone actually misses them. The only people I've seen that are actually into them now are way to young to be nostalgic for them.
Cassettes seem to interest people pushing back against the trend of instant gratification singles. They like being forced to listen to an entire album. Sometimes it's just the object itself as merch. and has no relation to listening to the music. Many people buying records and tapes have no means to play either. It's also all ancient retro tech to them and a tape is just a portable record that won't skip. Similar to the resurgence in popularity of film formats in photography. There is even an artist out there that released their new single on a wax cylinder format that is damn near impossible for anyone but the curator of an audio format museum to play properly. If you're nostalgic for the trappings of a time that you never experienced, is that nostalgia or some other thing?
Cassettes wear out. I did that with a couple back in the day. Whereas a record or CD is a solid master copy.
Unless it’s that trendy decor thing people Hoover up albums for, not to listen to, but to hang on their walls. Maybe they’re trying cassettes now to try to be unusual en masse.
A record is not a solid master copy. Vinyl, as an analog medium, wears out in the same way a cassette does.
I still buy CDs, and I still rip them myself (usually 320kbps CBR; I've noted that 320kbps VBR sounds really bad in comparison), and manually put them on an SD card that goes into my phone. Sometimes I even use a set of Shure headphones with a <> CORD!
If you rip the CD yourself, no digital platform can reach into your home and take that from you. When you 'buy' digital licenses to listen to music on streaming platforms, changes in licensing can mean that Spotify, or whoever, can remove your ability to listen to it.
I also love album art. Bands like Clutch make interesting artwork that conveys the vibe of the music is interesting ways. It's part of a concept, not just the songs. But I'm lazy and now I let the small number of CDs that I still buy stack up until I have a bunch to rip all at once rather than on the day I get them.
Since I usually buy my CDs at concerts, I usually have 4+ to rip in one go.
I still need to re-rip Fallujah, Dawn of Ouroboros, Persefone, and Vulvodynia CDs; I ripped them as 320KBPS VBR, and the sound is muddy, with all of the bright edges and crispness gone. Everything that I've ripped to 320KBPS CBR is fine, so I assume it's something about a variable bit rate that's trashing the sound. It's unlistenable to me; it's so apparent compared to anything else I listen to that it's completely distracting me from the music itself.
I let the small number of CDs that I still buy stack up until I have a bunch to rip all at once rather than on the day I get them.
I still haven't re-ripped a box of CDs whose digital versions were lost in a HDD failure almost 20 years ago. 😒
Streaming? Hell no! Ripped to Flac, on a 500GB card in my phone. I live in a never ending dance party.
I need to figure out a new system for acquiring tunes. Tricky bit is while I want to buy stuff outright, I would never financially recover if I paid $1 per tune. I DJ, and mix with a very wide, relatively niche catalogue. What I'm spinning is still only a fraction of what I listen to and would want in the personal collection.
Anyone know of a decent service that grants access to tons of music, downloads and transfers enabled, without demolishing my bank?
Otherwise, I know there are potential means of sailing the seas again, which some may take under consideration...
I still use my Deezer subscription and the old Deemix-GUI, which is a mixture of the high seas and having a subscription.
disclaimer: deemix has has been discontinued 2 years ago, and the default login doesnt work (for me); the alternative ARL-Login still works fine tho.
alternatively there's always soulseek (which still astounds me - this thing is still alive and kicking after such a long time)
Cheers for plugs! Soulseek being alive and well is wild. That's an old dog.
should have just stuck with the vinyls.
You'd have to be mental to replace vinyl with tapes of all things. Going digital, no media, or subscription can kind of make sense for accessibility and other reasons.
Nobody forces you to replace your vinyls XD
Are we always mad? That’s just, like, your opinion, man.
Sit Ubu, sit.
I'm not a mad genx. I skipped mp3 and directly ripped my cds to flacs. Still have all my flac from 20-something-years ago. I also skipped silly streaming. I grew a massive library and use MediaMonkey. No need for stupid spotify.
Tape was superior in theory, but i hated the noise, no matter how great your equipment was.
In short: i welcomed every change, despite the last one. Instead of better quality we got lousy streaming (except tidal).
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