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danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• StorminNorman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Er, you can still buy cds. Discogs, local B&Ms, Bandcamp, the artists own website. Source: I still buy em.

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  • danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Depends where you live. I’m not in the US so we don’t get many CD’s

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    • StorminNorman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not in the US either. Discogs is fairly international, sometimes you won’t be able to ship one copy to you, but it’s extremely rare where at least one other seller isn’t shipping to me. Bandcamp is great too.

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      • danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ok in that case I’ll take a look at those. Thanks 👍

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• Geobloke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use bandcamp, not quite a cd, but you get access to a flac or mp3 depending on your choice and apparently they do a decent job looking after their artists. They even have days where all money goes to the artist

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  • neshura@bookwormstory.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I go out of my way to actually purchase music/books if they’re offered in a DRM free way. If I can’t download whatever I just paid for without needing some crappy App to use it, I don’t own it. I don’t pay for things I don’t own.

    While on the topic for people interested in Light Novels J-Novel Club offers DRM free Epub files of their books (username is embedded into the file but that’s hardly DRM), plus their subscription/pricing model is very fair imo. Can definitely recommend.

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  • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bandcamp Fridays! I buy music through bandcamp too. Some music is available as WAV but I usually go for flac. I love having my music collection on my own hardware again after years of using a streaming subscription. Somehow it feels closer to my heart, where it belongs.

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  • danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you don’t live in the US, navy of these streaming services are not available

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    • StorminNorman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bandcamp isn’t a streaming service. It’s also very rare for them not to have a release for sale globally. It does happen, but I can count on one hand how often it’s happened in the last 15yrs I’ve been using the service.

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      • danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ok cool. I’ll check it out. Thanks 👍

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• quicksand@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Couldn’t you do the reverse and burn the digital music you buy onto blank CDs?

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  • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If properly ripped, yes, you can, and you will have an exact copy of the audio CD.

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    • loutr@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can buy FLACs on Bandcamp, no ripping involved.

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  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve found it quite difficult to find PCM/lossless audio lately. You can go from CD to MP3, but not the other way.

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• backgroundcow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s because the licence holder of the movie decided Amazon can’t show it anymore. Perhaps they were asking Amazon to pay a high fee and it wants worth it.

  I get that this is what the license holder wants. But, why can’t we just put into law that a license is not needed for a company to host, retransmit and play copyrighted media on behalf of a user once the license holder has been compensated as agreed for a sale?

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• Metatronz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aren’t physical 4k Blu-rays still DRMd? When every part of the chain is digital your physical disc is still only as good as the will of Sony or whoever really owns it.

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  • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not with appropriate softwarre…

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    • Metatronz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      True. I’ve certainly scoped out blu ray players of a particular vintage for those reasons. Just crazy we have to reach back in time to attempt to get around a trap that the vast majority of consumers don’t see.

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  • danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes but there are ways around it I’m sure. Au least they aren’t going to come take it from you like they can with digital media

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    • Metatronz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just passively take it from you. Not saying physical is pointless at all, but physical discs and their players haven’t stood still technologically either. If anything, streaming and discs converged.

      Simply considering the fragile nature of a disc and the parade of new formats puts a clock on your time with it.

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