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Having grown up with cassette tapes and CDs later on, I just want digital.
Yes, it is nice to hold a physical thing, but it’s also nice to just play any song on your phone that you have on you 24/7 anyway.
Owning more things really doesn’t sound appealing to me personally. Also, CDs were never very portable, they scratch and these little tabs on their plastic cases break.
Sorry for sounding so negative, I’m glad they are having fun with their music. I just think the current CD trend could be 2nd hand nostalgia for today’s teens and young adults who just didn’t learn to loathe them yet 😅
Pure digital these days means streaming. Rightholders don’t want to give you a file you can copy or store indefinitely, they want you to rent
Which means they don’t understand how files work and spend a lot off wasted effort on DRM. They give us a file whether they intend to or not.
Records produce better music quality, don’t break as readily, and don’t scratch as such. Tapes were better than CD’s really.
I’m sorry, are you trolling? As a realistic audiophile, vinyl isnt technologically better. Is it way cooler and more fun? Yes. Is stuff usually mastered better for it? Again yes. I have several albums of the CD and the record and all of them the record is better because the CD is fucking brick walled to hell.
Also records dont scratch? Lol microscopic dust blowing around from a slight draft scratches them. The needle destroys them actively while playing it.
Cassettes are “neat” but they sound like rubber cat shit. Theyre tough as nails though.
If you mean reel to reel tape, youre correct. Nothing I’ve ever heard really sounds better than rtr tape. But its so old now its nearly impossible to get.
Nah. Give me both. Thats why a CD is the best. You get physical, and it can be ripped. I prefer records but the expense is too high for a lot of them now.
CDs never got old man. Still the best.
New computers don’t even have a cd though, and every single cd and dvd player outside of laptops and game systems is defective garbage.
Think what you want. All my computers have disc drives. If they dont, I have external ones.
I am still using disc drives from the 90s with zero issues. I actually take care of my shit unlike most people so maybe thats why. One of my DVD players sat in a storage shed getting covered in dust for like 8 ish years (not climate controlled either), had stuff dropped on it, still works fine. Thats a heavy metal body onkyo though with component out. Any DVD player with HDMI only out is pretty much shit and cheaply made.
VCRs are even better. Ive rarely found one I can’t get working with minimal effort.
I am still using disc drives from the 90s with zero issues. I actually take care of my shit unlike most people so maybe thats why.
I mean maybe in standalone devices but you certainly aren’t using a drive on your PC from the 90s without a whole lot of work for a slow shitty jury rig job.
Managing switching a PATA connection to SATA is a pain imho.
I am of a similar vintage, but I never gave up my CDs. For a while there, I did just go digital because of the convenience and depth. Then Covid came along and I got into records. That tapered off in the last couple of years and I’ve been buying CDs again because they take less room.
I still mostly listen to my music digitally, but now I’m hosting my own server and keeping a curated collection.
Self-hosting makes a ton of sense.
I do like the variety that comes with streaming. Getting notified about new releases from your favorite artists and then just being able to listen to them right away is a joy.
But one day, when my music streaming service will invariably get enshittified, I will self-host, too :)
Clearly the driver here is to own your stuff, not excitement of carrying 100 CDs around with you
We need more clarity for what digital ownership is or isn’t with laws to back it up.
I’d guess audio CDs are a tie in to games on physical media which is an obvious hot topic today. Corporations don’t want you owning anything, and it gets a lot easier when you don’t have something you can hold in your hand!
CDs are BOOMING? Quick! STOP making Them!
-The BRILLIANT minds at Sony!
Everyone in this thread completely misses thr point of media like this: you own it, you can sell or trade it later, and the community building aspect is really fun. You dont get any of that with files.
Same with games. Look at the 2and hand market. Growing up, everything i got was 2nd hand. Sad that poorer folks won’t have that anymore.
the community building aspect is really fun. You dont get any of that with files.
Back in the day I was huge into music communities on Soulseek. Files can build just as much community, just saying.
Sure but theyre a lot more underground, and illegal if your ISP sees what youre doing, so people are scared of that.
Illegal depending on your jurisdiction. In the US it’s still a civil matter unless you’re facilitating.
You do get most of those with files : owning it, trading it, and you can build a community around file sharing. The problem is not in the file concept but in the capitalistic ecosystem built on top of it, where they try to prevent you from easily accessing or using the files.
I can see that viewpoint. The issue there is of the ~40 IRL people I know and regularly talk to, not a single one of them has a clue what you just said. Normie’s understand “CD have media. CD go in player and worky”.
Files are great for us super nerds. But here’s the issue. Now you have a storage medium that then needs to be plugged into a PC of some sort, now you have an os of some sort and possibly internet on said device, Now you need a media player, now you need a DAC to send it to your stereo/headphones etc.
For me, CD go in and worky is peak.
Good point, CD are easier to use. But to be honest, people around me all know how to install a program or put mp3 in the music folder, from my grandparents to my younger brother, and they’re not nerds. I can see how it could be a problem if there was a little less tech literacy though.
