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• Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  LOL I remember when there was no better alternative to buying shitloads of CDs. In some ways I miss the relationship I had with music back then. My sister beat the shit out of me one time for sneaking in her room to copy a bunch of her CDs. Made a big song and dance about the ethics of music piracy!

  In that scenario though, your best bet would be to buy more than one CD, rip them to a computer with a USB optical drive, and make yourself playlists that are 8 hours long. I certainly would never advocate downloading music with filesharing software like soulseek.

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  • pirat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I certainly would never advocate downloading music with filesharing software like soulseek.

    Neither would I. The selection of high quality music is unbearable - you can find just about anything, even rarities, in good qualities, which is quite scary if you have heard nothing but heavily compressed mp3-files until now.

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  • dependencyInjection@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I too miss the days of CDs.

    There was even a time when Music Zone (store in the UK) would let you return cds. Well it was free reign to buy them, copy them and then return the original.

    I recall having a printer that could print the album art on them.

    Or even recording from the radio on to tape or mini disc. And even Smash Hits for lyrics.

    You’re right, relationships with music were different than they are now.

    I can’t lie though some things are better now. Take Apple Classical for instance. I can listen to the music entire collection of classical music by opening an app. It’s amazing.

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