All my CD’s got ripped (and re-ripped) to mp3 in increasing bitrates as storage increased. Bandcamp is where almost all my musicians release anyway, and I’ve got over a thousand albums through them, happy in the knowledge I support the artists in a fairly direct way.
Sure, I’ve still got an Apple Music sub (which sucks at times because licensing means a compilation gets split into several albums when whatever deal happens in the background expires). But I’ll easily find new music, grab it and give it a go, and if I like it enough I’ll dig them out on bandcamp. At some point I’m gonna quit that platform.
Planning to get a modern mp3 player to go offline with my music at some point. Or maybe rebuild the old iPod and put Rockbox on it and hook it up to my linux desktop.
I found it was well worth ripping to flac securely using EAC (no idea what the modern setup is).
As then I knew I had a perfect copy to make whatever MP3 I wanted in the future from.
Nowadays, I convert everything to V0 for portable use, but who knows what the future may hold.
tarknassus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All my CD’s got ripped (and re-ripped) to mp3 in increasing bitrates as storage increased. Bandcamp is where almost all my musicians release anyway, and I’ve got over a thousand albums through them, happy in the knowledge I support the artists in a fairly direct way.
Sure, I’ve still got an Apple Music sub (which sucks at times because licensing means a compilation gets split into several albums when whatever deal happens in the background expires). But I’ll easily find new music, grab it and give it a go, and if I like it enough I’ll dig them out on bandcamp. At some point I’m gonna quit that platform.
Planning to get a modern mp3 player to go offline with my music at some point. Or maybe rebuild the old iPod and put Rockbox on it and hook it up to my linux desktop.
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I found it was well worth ripping to flac securely using EAC (no idea what the modern setup is).
As then I knew I had a perfect copy to make whatever MP3 I wanted in the future from.
Nowadays, I convert everything to V0 for portable use, but who knows what the future may hold.