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Physical media snobs.

aRTie02150

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It's really annoying when someone goes on a rant about how much better their CD collection is over streaming music though a service like Spotify.

I grew up in the 90s, I had CDs, and they were pretty inconvenient to have tbh. Even later in their life when you could burn your own custom CDs it wasn't the most convenient thing.

At this point I've been listening to music via MP3 files for longer than I had CDs and I can't tell the difference between the two. The audio quality from a tape to a CD was obvious, but not so much the difference between streaming a song from YouTube and a CD.

Maybe my ears are broken?

Anyway physical media snobs are faggots.
 
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RealTonySchiavone said:
The audio quality aspect is overblown, but I won't use streaming services because I'd never trust having the entirety of my music library in the hands of some shitdick company that might fold because its investors decided they weren't making enough money. Which is not to say I'd rather have a CD, but I still need "offline access" for all of my shit.
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Exactly, having my music downloaded locally is a far better option than streaming it. It's not subject to bad internet connection and I know it won't just disappear on me unless I had a catastrophic disk failure or something
 
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DanMullenButNormal said:
Isn't CD quality equals to 64k mp3s? It's worse than iTunes iirc
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No, it gets a lot more complicated than that, but 64kbps MP3s tend to just be CD rips that have had their quality reduced greatly to fit on MP3 players from 2001 that held like 32mb total. CDs themselves have a much higher bitrate and sound fine. So did cassettes, for that matter. That miniscule blip of time when MP3 players sucked ass was the only reason anyone needed to have dogshit quality music since the advent of vinyl records.

That being said, MP3s ripped directly from CDs at top quality, come out sounding great, and their filesizes are miniscule by today's standards. So there's no reason to actually listen directly from your CD collection when you can rip all of it onto a cheap hard drive, or shit, even a $20 SD card by now.
 
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It took me forever to come around to streaming but I signed up to Apple music a few years ago and am all in especially atmos and old 70’s quad mixes that are now available digitally.

That being said I still buy physical media because Jews are gonna Jew and I shudder to think one day I might not be able to stream my favorite Leif Garret album.
 
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Turk February said:
Download soulseek, faggots. Offline access, free, and often lossless quality. There. Debate settled.
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my man. i've been using soulseek for nearly two decades.

it blew my mind when i was looking for an old demo of a band i was in, and i knew a brazilian guy on there downloaded it before because we talked in DMs at the time, and that nigger WAS STILL LOGGED IN for me to get it it ages later. that is the one negative i can think of though, soulseek at one time was full of the most obscure local shit you wouldn't find anywhere else, and that doesn't seem to be as much of the case anymore

i also buy vinyl records, particularly stuff i wanted when i was younger but couldn't get. discogs is addictive. i blow money on there when i'm drunk
 
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goo gobbler said:
my man. i've been using soulseek for nearly two decades.

it blew my mind when i was looking for an old demo of a band i was in, and i knew a brazilian guy on there downloaded it before because we talked in DMs at the time, and that nigger WAS STILL LOGGED IN for me to get it it ages later. that is the one negative i can think of though, soulseek at one time was full of the most obscure local shit you wouldn't find anywhere else, and that doesn't seem to be as much of the case anymore

i also buy vinyl records, particularly stuff i wanted when i was younger but couldn't get. discogs is addictive. i blow money on there when i'm drunk
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Soulseek rules for that still, I find. I put together a 30 song playlist of local bands from 2006 in a specific medium sized southern Ontario town just a few years ago effortlessly thanks to slsk.

But more importantly, haven't bought a widely released album since middle school.
 
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