As a millennial, I had the same path through media just without starting at vinyl. You apparently chose to throw your shit out, I’ve still got all of it and converted most to digital formats. Fuck a subscription though.
Still Pirating After All These Years… and that’s a reference to a song all you young uns never heard of. BTW: held on to every piece of vinyl.
I’m gen-x. This ain’t no problem for me. I don’t pay for a subscription to listen to music. I’ve known where to find music since the summer of 99. I’m not worried about any of that nonsense in life. I’m mad that I’m more than likely not going to get health coverage, social security, or friggin retire for that matter. I may not even make it to that golden age even. Especially with how my health has declined over the last 4 years. 45 was a trip yall. Ain’t no lie.
Also, I was bit young at the time for a record collection. I remember them of course. But I never owned any. So all I had known was Cassette Tapes til probably around 1996 or so when I finally got a CD player. Then, Napster happened and I never looked back. Fuck em. I got a 500Gb USB Drive with thousands of Albums on it still.
Sorry I don’t mean to be buzzkill or “Pooolltical”… sheesh. But yeah I see shit like this, and I’m like “Hah! This is the least of my damn worries!”. I steal music. Fuck em. Peace!.. also Fuck Gen-X… We suck.
You didn’t have to…
Me, the millinial who bought all your “old” records, tapes, CDs, VHS tapes, and who has pirated digital files since digital piracy was born: kingbugsbunny.jpg
that’s just one aspect that ties into the real problem: we had so much ‘fuck the man’ and anti-corporate horseshit shoveled into our mouths, and look how the world turned out–it’s a corporate, gentrified hellhole.
not every gen-xer became ‘the man.’
but a sizable portion of the straight-laced, 100k a year set feel it on some level. the despair of 2026 america isn’t limited to certain demographics; when there’s a perpetual storm you’re bound to get wet even if you have an umbrella.
I’m mad that a CD selling for 15 bucks has 20 bucks shipping attached to it.
You didn’t have to do that. :/
Sorry to be the bearer of difficult news.
What loser actually believes they need to replace stuff that still works?
It’s really fucking hard to listen to a record on a road trip
I wonder if there’s a modded Rolls-Royce out there with a gyroscope stabilised record player in it.
There were car record players, just not very common
Honestly the only reference I’ve ever seen to them outside this thread was in Raisin in the Sun, wasn’t sure they were real lol.
I download all my music and play it off my phone
That’s what all of us smart kids did in the 90s when the car radio cassette players got replaced with cd players. /s
Well the problem is they stop making the previous thing. Who wants a music collection that is 1/4 records, 1/4 casette, 1/4 CD, 1/4 MP3s? And still you need Spotify to listen to some stuff that is simply not available anywhere else.
Who wants a music collection that is 1/4 records, 1/4 casette, 1/4 CD, 1/4 MP3s?
Me! The ratios are off but that’s basically my music collection.
Also have VHS tapes, DVDs, GBC/A carts, Xbox OG disks, NES carts, and a hacked PS Vita (no carts yet).
Records and tapes wear out tho. CDs somewhat too if you don’t treat them well.
At least mp3s last forever if you manage your backups.
That’s no fun though.
And all the physicals can be backed up to digital by just downloading them from slsk, you’ll be fine.
Sounds like an absolutely normal collection to me. Especially if you consider that not every recording is released on every medium.
I must be less of a collector and more focused on practicalities. I am not really listening to music in front of a stereo, I’m using headphones while out and about walking/public transport, etc. I might find some CDs, cassette tapes, or even records in my house somewhere, but I’m not actively listening to those. I can’t listen to records, cassettes, or CDs while out and about. My only option is digital files. I have ripped some of these from CDs but I’d guess I’ve re-bought more than I’ve ripped.
I think that variety would be cool to have.
It would be cool to collect but if you bought on vinyl then want to listen on the go then you’re gonna need to get the album again in another medium.
Or you could just rip the vinyl
Do people actually do that, as opposed to the alternatives? It seems like a lot of work when the digital files are easily available online.
Some do, I personally just DL my “backups” from slsk. Most new prod records do also come with a code for the digital version for this exact reason, though. Older ones of course do not.
Everything could be MP3s or on CDs if you want it
The original comment was that people replacing their collections are dumb. But if your original collection was vinyl then everything can’t be MP3s unless you replace it. So there are valid reasons for replacing (carrying a record player around with you isn’t very practical).
You weren’t planning to carry your record player around with you when you first bought it. You can still play records in the same context you played them in before.
Do cars even come with CD players any more? I know my last three computers didn’t.
External drives are a thing. Old cars are a thing.
old cars are a thing
ok now you just trolling.
Me with my thumbdrive collection 😎
I hate that mp3 became the standard and not .ogg, it can store better quality in similar filesizes and yet everyone decides to use mp3.
Sure, flac/wav files are the best when it comes to audio quality but they take too much space, especially if you’re storing your whole audio library on your phone.
FLAC or bust. Stupid to have a lossy standard when storage is cheap.
MP3 is ca. 5x as old. There was no Ogg back then.
Btw, why does the CPU need support for a audio/video format and not the DAC/GPU?
And I hate that Opus, being even better than ogg, is even less spread out.
Artists could just release files from their own website in all of the forms available. If they get so god damned little of the money Spotify and other steal from them, they should just release for better terms themselves equivalent to listening to music 24hours a day. Then you can just connect with whatever is on the network run by those artists.
A fediverse streaming audio paid with a subscription where 100 percent of your membership goes to the music you listened to. The artist’s should then have to pay the fediverse audio to be a member of the network so they the network can pay the tech overhead. Which If it’s kept super simple and intentionally NOT a SOCIAL media app, just a straight up media app.
Then artists could also have more control over what and where they get played. Could be an administration nightmare but a worthy challenge to offer such an amazing thing.
I would try to revive winamp through the fediverse somehow
Make it, then.
It’s a good as way as any to discover just how intractable a business problem it really is, especially when you have deeply entrenched interests manipulating the industry.
I don’t have that skillset, nor do I have the luxury or comfort to gain that skillset. I have too many problems of my own Im ready failing at managing
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That was a valid claim ten twenty years ago, but today?
And I mean it’s not hard to make 256/320 MP3 out of those wave files either if you’re on some el cheapo phone.
It’s got to be because people liked the name/extension better, right? MP3 was so much easier to pronounce and cooler sounding than ogg. Same thing with DivX.
…and now the subscription turned to shit and they need to find FLACs of all their favorite music, because they encoded their MP3s in shitty quality in the 2000s.
Soulseek is right there if you want to sail the high seas. Bandcamp and other online retailers have offered FLAC for decades. If you didn’t trash your CDs you can still rip them to FLAC, an external drive (if you need one) is like $30.
I get it, I have hundreds of GB of old shitty downloads from YouTube, poorly done cd rips, downloads from god knows where. All in various stages of completely absent labelling and tagging.
But I’m not going to pretend it’s anyone’s problem but my own due to my previous choices, and I’m not going to pretend like there aren’t plenty of tools to help fix it like MusicBrainz Picard.
Soulseek is a godsend, but it’s a bit clunky. I’m looking for some other fronted and stumbled onto nicotine+ that I haven’t tried yet, any ideas or pointers?
Try music brains picard if you want to fix that problem. Still takes time but it helps ALOT (it’s free)
I love this!
Where you getting external drives for $30? The 2TB Toshiba drive I’ve purchased many times over the past 5 years for under $70 is now $150. Even the 1TB drives are over $100 these days
I think they meant an external CD/DVD drive for ripping the discs
Ah, that makes sense. Thx
I didn’t trash my CDs time did. A decade spent in a carry case in my car in the southern heat has caused a lot of them to have the foil start separating. So the vast majority have at least one or two tracks that won’t play or rip now.
That’s still your decision and thermodynamics being a cunt.
Just be sure to use something like Spek to to inspect the files if you use Soulseek. I’ve used it to find some obscure music I couldn’t purchase, and sometimes people literally just re-encode MP3 files to FLAC, the data is still lost, reconverting won’t recover it.
Yep, many times I’ve found a .flac that actually sounds worse than the 128kbit .aac from YouTube…
If you still have the discs, it’s really easy to rip CDs to FLACs.
Soulsync will automatically do that for you.
I miss Winamp.
It really whipped the llamas ass
Caaaaaarl, that kills people.
You can just keep using it if you want
https://forums.winamp.com/forum/winamp/winamp-discussion/316353-winamp-5-9-1-released?t=459660
It crashes randomly on some files in Windows 10 and they don’t seem to have issued any patches since the re-release 4 years ago. :/
I’m using foobar2000 which does the job but has zero charisma
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Nah we stopped at mp3.
Me, a GenX looking at the drive I filled when Napster was first introduced.
