Vinyl records outsell CDs for first time in decades https://bbc.in/402cVE7

@BBCWorld
> Vinyl records outsell CDs for first time in decades
Some didn't believe we would live to see this. I did!

@m0xee @BBCWorld Definitely saw this coming. There was a time when I was really excited about the possibility, but now I'm older and wiser and producing vinyl is so much more material than a CD. Awful, toxic material.

It is really cool though, lol. Sorry for being a downer.

@gordoooo_z
I'm not a hardcore vynil fan myself, I'm more of a CD type, but I still thought this would happen. I grew up when all three: vynils, CDs and cassettes, were in use, then MP3s appeared and I knew this will take over and vynils will stay as most aesthetically pleasing. Still prefer the CDs as you don't have to turn them over that often 🤣
Good point though! I think streaming is the worst in this regard, no toxic materials, but transmission needs more power.

@m0xee in the case of streaming, it's the worst because everybody wins esxcept for the artist. For all the democratization of the music industry, in that you can pretty much go it on your own, and find your niche as long as you can whip up a quick website or bandcamp, and handle your socials, the sad fact is that 250,000 streams a month won't necessarily even feed you, let alone keep a roof over your head. Your only hope is live shows, merch, and hopefully bandcamp sales.

@gordoooo_z Despite having unlimited data plan almost all the time I never got into streaming 🤷
It's not audio quality or the internet connection requirement, I just somehow don't get it. I have a 200 Gb SD card in my phone filled mostly with music and most of the internal storage is used for audio too. This includes my extensive CD collection encoded to FLAC format. That's a lot of music for all possible moods, it never gets old 😁

@gordoooo_z I don't like piracy too, but now I'm unable to pay for music so I have to resort to it — well, that mostly means saving albums from BandCamp using youtube-dl. I always preferred physical media until shipping to Russia became more expensive than the CDs themselves, then I started using BC for digital purchases, but now I can't do even that 😩
I'll buy the albums I kept later when I have the opportunity, so in a way I'm just saving traffic for BC now, downloading it instead of streaming

@m0xee I feel you. I didn't feel great about it back in high school, but I was a broke high school student, and the option of "well just don't listen to it, then" didn't really seem like a real option, and still doesn't.

More to your original point: I wish more phones still came with SD slots. I was a Nexus/budget phone guy for a long time, so even though SD slots were still a thing, Google left them out to avoid the license fees, back when they made affordable phones.

@m0xee Then by the time I sold my soul and signed a 2 year contract, well, SD slots were more or less a thing of the past. That being said, I'd rather use my 120GB iPod than my phone any day. Nothing worse than having to wait til a call stops ringing for my song to unpause 😤

@gordoooo_z Oh, yes, I was thinking of switching to a dedicated DAP too. Phones no longer cut it — we have decent storage options, but they are removing the headphone jack now 🤷
It's odd how flagship phones are all about camera nowadays — the thing I could not care less about. On the other hand my cheapo midranger is perfect in this regard — having 256 Gb of internal storage, an SD slot and a wired headphones output. I'll keep using it while it lasts and then I'll see.