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!
@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 😁
@m0xee yeah, I definitely get that. For me it kind of happened by accident. My buddy spilled a beer on my computer the last year of high school, and then I was on a shitty laptop for a bit, and then I discovered Grooveshark, which was kind of a stopgap, and then I just got used to it I guess? I can't deny that I'm spoiled by having ommediate access to whatever I want to hear right damn now, but it's not like torrenting an album took more than 20min back then (and now it's more like...
@m0xee ...20 seconds).
My biggest reason for wanting to cancel Spotify (aside from aforementioned moral qualms) is that the more time passes, the more gaps I find in my mental rolodex of every album or song I've ever heard. I used to be so meticulous about tagging, and sorting and organizing, and getting the correct album cover (no reissues, no deluxe editions unless that's what I had), and when I wanted to hear something, I could recall it like 🫰 that!
That was my equivalent of...
@m0xee ...a shelf full of LPs, or a stack of CDs. The thing is, I've grown my "collection" since then way more rapidly than I ever did the old way, but I don't necessarily have it at my fingertips like that, metaphorically speaking, even though I literally do (somewhere in my liked songs).
I don't know that I'll ever collect all of it once I do make the jump, but at least I'll have an exported XML I can refer to, and knowing me, I'll probably build some sort of web app for myself...
@m0xee ...and link it up with some API to make it browseable, for when I do want to start.
Idk, it's a tough proposition, because I have music on at all times when I'm working, which is often well over 12 hrs a day, so there it'll have to be a slow transition.
Aaaaand another tangent. I do that, lol.
@gordoooo_z
> Aaaaand another tangent. I do that, lol.
Don't worry about it! I open the last reply and read all of them in correct order in the original thread.
I'm into longer posts myself, but have to split them into 500 character parts on this instance quite often — they do look like finished and self-sufficient replies most of the time, but in fact are longer ones split apart by skillful cutting and pasting 😁
@m0xee Can't say I go in with quite that much forethough 😁