Digitizing Yr Music Library - Hi Fi shiz

[backwardsvoyager]

yeah, fair.

considering a high quality mp3 is close enough to identical sounding to lossless to most people's ears, i think we might be at the point now where we'll probably be dead before it's that much of a pain in the ass to evolve from mp3's.

although yknow, if 20 years from now we're inserting little nanotechnological devices into our brains to listen to music without actually using our ears this shit now will probably feel more obsolete than Real Player.

[rustywire]

Um, a couple. Established formats work. You can find a tape player pretty easily. You can find a turntable pretty easily. If your power goes out at the wrong time or your PC crashes you don't lose all of your music at once. Remember when I accidentally lost 2 gigs of samples? That shit happens all the time, and it's part of the reason that I prefer to buy physical copies.

That said, I'm looking to move in the not-so-distant future and at that point the benefits of digital become tremendous.

Last summer I lost 3.5 years of data & multimedia. A full 320gb drive ate it via click of death.
Backups were corrupted, usb & a second external hdd. Still hurts to think about what I lost.
WISH WISH WISH I had backed up to tape

Tangible goods are an asset, affording the ability to exercise a high degree of control that cant be wiped by g-force or a static shock. You can cash-in when you're in a pinch as the supply is finite and there's demand. There's no more demand for a secondhand laptop with 3000 songs as the same secondhand laptop with 0 songs...they're worth the same and no less fragile.

That said, digital audio media is great for commuting and exercising etc. But at home I'll take the clunky, cumbersome formats full of well-earned wear and personal significance.

[rustywire]

Exactly. Lets say you were trying to do this exact thing in 1998. You decide to use RMA, because you love Real Player. RMA is proprietary, so in 2016 you're totally fucked because all your shit is in RMA, which only plays in Real Player.

Just to pull an example.

WORST
OF
ALL
TIME

[popvulture]

Yeah, I'd really like to hope that we don't move away from .mp3. On that note, I ripped CDs into my iTunes library for YEARS using m4A encoding, and it sounds fine, but I worry about support for that format across all apps I might use, plus those that have yet to emerge. Fucking pain in the ass to think that I might have to go back and re-rip those if I wanna be smart.

Better do that soon though, because my CDs have been sitting in boxes for 9 years, and I'm planning on getting rid of them before I move. The records are going nowhere though.

Bonus topic: I've enjoyed the simplicity of Fidelia vis the shitshow that is iTunes, and it seems like you can really audiophile fap with it if you want.

[voerking]

i can't imagine going strictly digital. so much of what i listen to on a regular basis is the music of friends or small forgotten regional bands. those tapes/seven inch singles/cds are virtually irreplaceable.

[kbit]

See that's actually part of the reason I want to go fully digital, because I've found so many awesome bands that only sell they're shit digitally and I don't buy/listen to them because I really don't like having my music divided into so many different formats.

[D.o.S.]

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[kbit]

[D.o.S.]

[D.o.S.]

I am not surprised, though, that you listen to bands that "are shit digitally".

[PeteeBee]

I've struck the compromise to go 90+% digital, so the only physical things I have laying around are the 7"s, splits, tapes, all that junk that I love, or really off the wall stuff. My CD collection used to be this massive monstrosity of music that is super easy to listen to a bunch of other ways, now it is much more concise and I haven't lost any of the gold.

Plus this way when I do decide to play vinyl or cassettes it is even better because it is stuff that is hard to find online. And it lets me still buy stuff at shows. The last thing I need is another T Shirt, but a tape, now that I need!

[popvulture]

Dude I love tapes. Little boxes of happiness. I say buy all you want.

[PeteeBee]

Also, some music seems mixed for different platforms. This might be common knowledge, but I just stumbled upon it. what led me to this is the band Chroma. Saw them live, incredible even though it was a shitty shed show. Their tape also sounds awesome, but the same songs off of their bandcamp is much less magical. Idk why exactly. Like compression or something... I run both through the same amp and speakers.

[popvulture]

Oh absolutely--that extra compression on tapes really adds to certain recordings. I recently bought Unknown Mortal Orchestra's latest on tape--I already owned it on vinyl but found the tape for I think three bucks (!) and figured why the hell not. With the kind of heavy modulation, compression, hi pass etc the band already uses, it's complimented perfectly by the character of cassette format. Just one example among tons.

[D.o.S.]

More recent example of digital disaster:
https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/ ... seriously/