<glances at shelf in corner>
Can confirm.
Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now
yesman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A long time ago, you could go to a special store and trade government paper for music disks and tape that you got to keep forever.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
cosmo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
When I discovered that it was possible to buy and download drm free lossless flac-files i went back to buying music again. Never looked back tbh.
pfr@piefed.social 6 months ago
I'm starting (a little late) to build my music library this way too. I self host jellyfin , for which there are some nice music players. But, I still have my Spotify account currently while I gradually build my personal library. I'll admit tho, I will miss the algorithm and artist suggestions
cosmo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It was kind of easy for me, as I already used Plex for video, but Plexamp has been such an amazing experience for rediscovering my own music. The radios, sonic matching and DJ algorithms are fantastic. I’m sure there’s other similar solutions, but it’s really worth investing in, imho.
Localhorst86@feddit.org 6 months ago
honestly, most of my CDs have been used once: Put in a PC and ripped (to 96kbps MP3s, of course!)
RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 6 months ago
Opus at that rate could be much better
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
That bitrate seems low? I always thought 160-192kbps was the floor for a decent sounding rip, but it’s been over a decade since I’ve even had a CD so maybe things are different now
Localhorst86@feddit.org 6 months ago
The Bitrate part was a joke, yes. 96k is low, although I just remembered a special mp3 codec from NERO that allowed for such low bitrate, at the same perceived sound quality as 128kbps.
But obviously, all my CDs have been ripped as either V2, V0 or 320kbps - I personally have not noticed any difference to FLAC files with either of those qualities.
remon@ani.social 6 months ago
Yeah, that’s low. I don’t bother with anything below 320 kbps.
UnbrokenTaco@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Where do you buy them from?
cosmo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Qobuz
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I mostly buy from Bandcamp. Do you have the special Qibuz subscription to get discounts on purchases, and is it worth it ?
UnbrokenTaco@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thanks
Eranziel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Dunno about the user you asked, but I’ve used Bandcamp for that.
qwank@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Om gonna guess bandcamp?
cosmo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Mostly Qobuz.
UnbrokenTaco@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh, I thought that was only indie artists
Grimy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I remember that time and it was kind of shit. It was brutal in terms of packaging, and lugging around all those cds sucked. It was way more expensive and the money still all went to record companies, not to mention how terrible it felt to pay full price for a mostly garbage cd just for one song (single existed though but jot for everything).
Records companies also had final say on who we listened too and completely controlled the whole scene essentially.
I get the nostalgia but it was 100% worse both for artists and consumers. Well it has always been rough for artists tbh, but I don’t know if it’s harder right now or not.
Soggy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They want fuckin 40 bucks for a vinyl these days and they don’t even throw in a digital download for that price, and the radio is owned by like three companies unless you live near a college station.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
This 100%.
yesman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The contracts that steal music from artists haven’t changed one iota. Unless you’ve got juice like Paul McCarty, Beyonce, or Taylor Swift, and even then it can be a fight that takes years.
Grimy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I have a feeling it’s easier to put your music out there as an independant artists. There’s always someone taking a cut but the contacts are optional and there isn’t much gate keeping like before.
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It’s like every other media industry. The monoculture is dying. Everyone’s who’s “about it” is into niche subcultures and micro-celebrities you’ll probably never hear of.
There was a weird period of time from the mid-20th through the early 21st century where radio and TV had very strongly concentrated media production which made up most people’s media consumption.
For the last 15 years or so the tools of professional-looking media production for mass consumption have been available to anyone with a few hundred bucks to spare.In some ways it’s a communist utopia. The means of production have been commodified so much virtually anyone can afford them. However capitalists have moved on from owning the means of production to owning the means of distribution (the platforms).
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Well hey old man, go to bandcamp and pay a quarter or an eighth of the price of that frisbee to get lossless audio files that you can download and backup to your heart’s content.
Spotify was always for chumps.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This one time at band camp…
threeonefour@piefed.ca 6 months ago
Alright, I got an eighth. How do I trade it for music?
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Come to my house and I’ll play you some of my CDs
GraniteM@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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blitzen@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I find it funny that I have those examples in my “huge library of physical media.”
aesthelete@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Same but I have a huge collection of digital media.