You didn’t have to do that. :/
Sorry to be the bearer of difficult news.
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.
What loser actually believes they need to replace stuff that still works?
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.
I think that variety would be cool to have.
Everything could be on MP3 or CDs if you want it
My husband has wanted to dispose of out record, cassette and cd collections many times and I have stopped him. He is finally coming around to the wisdom of going old-school and physically owning our collection.
Nah we stopped at mp3.
Me, a GenX looking at the drive I filled when Napster was first introduced.
mp3s were the peak. But they didn’t go anywhere. I still use them.
Nah -real world gen xer here. We had to do all that yes. I personally converted all my tapes and 8-tracks using the pc to mp3 back 20 years ago. Albums too … those days you could use Adobe audition to remove all clicks and pops, scratches etc. I kept the droputs in my favorite cassettes as after playing them for years because I’d expect them. We’re pissed because in a very short span of 40 years the world got 100 percent shittier for us. I did personally have Dark Side of the Moon on Quadrophonic 8 track, cassette, LP, and Cd. If you’re wondering if Quadrophonic sound was better than modern sound, it was not.
There’s a Bluray that includes the quadraphonic mix re-taken from the masters.
It’s how it should have been and is well worth a listen if you’ve got 4 matching speakers and are willing to fiddle with an audio interface to get it to play right.
I miss Winamp.
It really whipped the llamas ass
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
Shoulda learned to sail IG
Dig out that old mp3 player bro, it still plays music just fine.
Phones play MP3’s just fine. I have 70GB on mine that I play with VLC.
Also, you can add to your collection easier than ever with some handy Linux tools.
I like to use AIMP to play music instead of vlc
hell yeah brother. I’ve got a 50GB SD card just for music myself. Library is currently 1200 strong
Also, vinyl, cassettes, and CDs have all come back in a big way and basically any album you could want is available. Just swap back to your old collections. They all still work.
Nah, what’s actually annoying is taking the name of every movie and TV show I liked and slapping them onto lame soulless versions designed to appeal to “modern audiences.” Why are modern audiences so fucking lame now? Internet brain rot I guess.
Also growing up under the shadow of nuclear annihilation at any moment & being keenly aware of it from movies etc, which made it clear early on that everything is hopeless bullshit & every glimmer that things might get better turned out to be more bullshit & now that global warmings really starting to kick off it’s like WELP
Somebody here is too young to get it. Tapes and records coexisted. CDs replaced both.
Nope tapes and records didn’t co-exist, we had record players built into our cars. And you had to be careful with the cheap ones because the speed of the car was directly tied to the speed of the record player. Funny story but that’s also how the Charleston was invented
they certainly filled separate niches. i mean, imagine having to carry a vinyl-disk-man…
For the long time, tapes were seen as cheap but bad alternative, if you want to really listen to music you needed vinyl. Tapes themselves and players that didn’t sound like shit were quite expensive, and even those were breaking all the time, meanwhile everyone has a vinyl player that plays nice and reliable. By the time good consumer tape player came about, it was very quickly followed by a cd player that was the best of both worlds.
…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.
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
Try music brains picard if you want to fix that problem. Still takes time but it helps ALOT (it’s free)
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.
“had to replace” lol no one is making you get rid of your records and tapes bro. They still work fine.
All those records were really heavy to haul from one renoviction to another hovel, so we recorded to tape and sold the records cheap in the 90s.
The tapes stuck around until we could afford a car that was new enough to have a cd player, sometime around the economy crashing.
Now we have a home that we will own some day and for a while, it was great cruising thrift stores for $3 old vinyl for the turntable inherited from boomer parents, but hipsters caught on and all that is left now are nana mouskouri and henry mancini and bill cosby.
I dunno, my 25 year old tapes are worbly as hell now. Vinyl records still play great though!
Have you tried playing them on different devices? There’s an old Tech Moan video where he replaced the springs and rubber bands on an old warbly tape deck, and the warble-ing stopped. Your tape deck may just need a springy-bits refresh.
