Me with my thumbdrive collection 😎
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Everything could be on MP3 or 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).
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.
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
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 -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.
…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?
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.
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.
“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.
Hey hey hey…
The pink panther is a great release!
That’s an evil earworm if you grew up with it
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.
Ooh, I should try that! Thank you!
Shoulda learned to sail IG
This is a roving banner about consumerism and why its bad. Stop buying sooooo much shit and fix the things you do have. The jones’s suck and they can fuck right off into the sunset.
Cassettes degrade over time so they needed to be replaced by CDs or mp3s eventually. But it’s about the device you’re listening to it on and buying a new device.
I have a small ~$5 desk fan that I got from AliExpress. First time it broke, it was because the mount points for the micro USB charge port were glued on instead of soldered in place. Then the tiny crappy button which presses a smaller surface mount button inside got bent and no longer clicked the actual internal component. Then the button snapped off completely so I replaced it with a 3D printed one. Then my initial soldering broke loose because I admittedly half-assed it the first time. When it was sitting on my desk, disassembled for the 5th time, I mentioned how many times I’d cracked it open to someone and they bought me a different fan as a gift, essentially freeing me from the curse of repairing the cheap fan again, and giving me permission to just trash it…
I still fixed it and now I have 2 fans. I must’ve fixed it pretty well this last time because I’ve dropped it twice pretty hard and it’s still holding up. Repairing shit is awesome. It usually doesn’t take that many tries though…
My current headphones are a Frankenstein mix of drivers from a pair that sounded nice but were uncomfortable, a headband and housing from a different pair that fits my weirdly shaped head, cushions from a third pair because they were the perfect size for my ears and soo comfortable and a cable from a fourth pair because it was the perfect length, thickness and has a good plug. They’re my favorite headphones now.
How do assemble them? Have a piczure of them?
If a first fix doesn’t succeed, fix it and fix it and fix it and fix it… You get the idea.
My small 4in fan I take hammocking with me had the charging port break on me and while I have the soldering station to fix it, I hate soldering tiny pcbs and have just been removing the lipo cell and charging it with my 18650 charger I had made an adapter for awhile back. I basically just stick two ribbon cable pins into the adapter and the other ends go to the appropriate +/- wires on the jst connector to the lipo. Takes about 4x longer than my largest capacity 18650 but it saves me a little annoying soldering.
Also I lost the on button when I was disassembling it so now I just shove my longest nail down into the housing. I COULD print a new one but I’d have to set my printer back up and tune it just for one small piece… I have a piece of paper taped to my printer that I keep writing the things I wasn’t to print and once it gets long enough I’ll set it up, it’s just a lot of work and I don’t have much space.
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.
