Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now

yesman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • threeonefour@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Alright, I got an eighth. How do I trade it for music?

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    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Come to my house and I’ll play you some of my CDs

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  • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This one time at band camp…

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• Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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).

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This 100%.

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  • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• cosmo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • UnbrokenTaco@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Where do you buy them from?

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    • qwank@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Om gonna guess bandcamp?

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      • cosmo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Mostly Qobuz.

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      • UnbrokenTaco@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, I thought that was only indie artists

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    • cosmo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Qobuz

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      • 6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mostly buy from Bandcamp. Do you have the special Qibuz subscription to get discounts on purchases, and is it worth it ?

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      • UnbrokenTaco@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks

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    • Eranziel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dunno about the user you asked, but I’ve used Bandcamp for that.

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  • Localhorst86@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    honestly, most of my CDs have been used once: Put in a PC and ripped (to 96kbps MP3s, of course!)

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    • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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      • Localhorst86@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • remon@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, that’s low. I don’t bother with anything below 320 kbps.

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    • RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Opus at that rate could be much better

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  • pfr@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • cosmo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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  • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same but I have a huge collection of digital media.

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  • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I find it funny that I have those examples in my “huge library of physical media.”

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  <glances at shelf in corner>

  Can confirm.

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