Can’t argue with that.

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settlemen@reddit

And now kids are showing them vinyl like it’s new.

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protoman86@reddit

Bro that 4k OLED with Blu-ray has nothing on this 32” Magnavox with this VHS player 😂

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HiroProtagonist1984@reddit

But legit Blu-ray’s do look and sound better than streaming

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403Verboten@reddit

CDs are higher quality than most streaming too.

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spidersinthesoup@reddit

indeed. and fuck that dude from 35 years ago telling me cds would never hold up in quality and basically "erase themselves". i still listen to discs over 30 years old.

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CanOfPenisJuice@reddit

My car has a cd player. It sounds amazing compared to streaming via blutooth.

I should really get a cd player to hook up to our house speakers

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msheehan418@reddit

I love y’all for but you guys really sound old. I’m not judging, all of this sounds wonderful. But this thread shows its age 42-48

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CanOfPenisJuice@reddit

I mean embracing who you are and your age is pretty much the whole point if this sub

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Right! I said I loved yall for it. I said I wasn’t judging. It was really cute to read. My husband is 6 years older and firmly gen x. So I’ve seen him embracing other stuff that makes him old. It’s cute to see stuff like CD players be the thing WE embrace

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CanOfPenisJuice@reddit

I dunno, I think you may mean well but that comes across as pretty patronising.

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msheehan418@reddit

I’m sorry! I’m 44 and married to a 50 year old. I do mean well. Please forgive me for coming across patronizing

I’m digging a deeper hole aren’t I? I should quit while I’m behind huh?

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piratequeenfaile@reddit

And vinyl over CDs (in perfect condition at least)

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ohhellperhaps@reddit

In perfect condition with a hypothetical perfect record player, the CD format will beat it in any objective measurable criteria.

There may be many reasons why people prefer vinyl records, but those are all subjective, and have nothing to do with actual measurable and theoretical audio quality.

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ThriftianaStoned@reddit

I mainly use Spotify or a hard drive plugged into a computer to listen to music, but I also have a pretty good vinyl collection and sound system, there is definitely something different to the sound of vinyl recordings. Im not a record snob so im not going to bother trying to describe it in my own words or argue that there isn't.

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letharus@reddit

I love the crackle

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ohhellperhaps@reddit

Oh, I love vinyl records. I love how involved the whole process is. The large sleeves with cover art; getting it out, carefully placing it on the turntable.

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HamboneBanjo@reddit

I’m more of a snap or pop man myself, but I get down with some crackle

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ThriftianaStoned@reddit

I stream using stremio and real-debrid and the image and sound quality beats the streaming services they steal from.

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TwistedBrother@reddit

Because bit rate is as important as resolution. Bluray has very high bitrates whereas some channels cheap out. Free Netflix is basically compression fest.

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HiroProtagonist1984@reddit

Yep exactly it’s night and day watching the same movie on the same tv but Netflix vs blu ray even the sound is a noticeable bit better

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slog@reddit

I have good internet and an OLED and some streams still look worse than the Game of Thrones episode The Long Night.

That one still hits hard because I watched it on a downloaded copy and it looked like shit so I signed up for HBO just to find that they weren't streaming HDR, let alone a high enough bit rate to be useful. Looked like the same level of shit.

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protoman86@reddit

💯

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Gwilym_Ysgarlad@reddit

Not the same, vinyl really does sound better, you just gotta have the right set up.

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el_chivato@reddit

I bought a high-end tape player from an elderly musician.

I've never heard music like this. No hiss. No pop. It has the warmth of an analog recording and the clarity of digital.

Analog does sound better than digital, if done right. And that's the rub: It's hard to do analog right.

High-end digital (higher sampling than CDs, DVD audio on up) is hard to distinguish from analog, but CDs do miss something.

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random9212@reddit

That's just wrong. I love my vinyl records. But a CD or proper lossless digital version technically sounds just as good or better. The thing I love about records is the tactile nature of it. It forces you to slow down and listen to the music and not just have it playing in the background.

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WintersDoomsday@reddit

And you don’t skip tracks so you discover some real gems sometimes

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Cool-Acanthaceae8968@reddit

No it does not.

CD Red Book can produce any sound the human ear is capable of hearing.

Even discounting wow, pops, scratches, and the loss of fidelity with each playback… there’s rumble which makes poor low end frequency response, crosstalk between channels, and the loss of fidelity between the start and end of the record.

In an AB/X test.. you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a record and a recording of a record played back on a CD.

Don’t confuse mastering and the “loudness wars” with the format.

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minicpst@reddit

My teen was SO excited to get a TV/VCR combo with a 13” screen or something.

I think they’re nuts.

I don’t even have any VCR tapes or even know where to get some. Not even sure the last Blockbuster in Bend, OR (which is five hours away) would have any.

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protoman86@reddit

Haha kids are weird like that. I think I still have some vhs movies around here somewhere. I’ll let you know if I find them 😂

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InternalSun6392@reddit

i love my vinyls and vhs tapes, this the hill i die on

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soniq__@reddit

The plural of vinyl is vinyl

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Wrex_n_effect@reddit

You take your hdr, I’ve got scan lines for days!

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Rabbits-in-my-Vagina@reddit

I know that a lot of people think its crap, but dont forget that even lossless digital files, still compress some times of information- namely dynamics, and often edge frequencies. You won't hear the difference on the grand majority of audio equipment, but on the highest end stuff, you for sure will.

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Novel_Towel6125@reddit

No, lossless digital files do not lose any information. That is what "lossless" means. If you uncompress a FLAC file, you get exactly the original back. Like literally identical in every possible way.

If you want to say the original digital mastering or recording process lost some information from the analog source, okay, but that's something else.

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Rabbits-in-my-Vagina@reddit

You're nitpicking. Of course I don't mean that the encoding of the file itself, from a digital source, is whats responsible for reduction in dynamics and frequency. I mean that the D-A conversion anywhere in the chain, removes information from the analog source, period. If you're listening to a lossless FLAC file, and im listening to the analog master it was ripped from, I'm hearing more than you are. (given high end listening equipment)

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el_chivato@reddit

They're still digital samples of the original analog.

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ampharosluvrr@reddit

… its literally true gdt a proper set up it sounds so damn good

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Koil_ting@reddit

Really depends on the set up. For example, does my 1980s receiver with an old sears turntable hooked up to 4 decent 3 way speakers sound better than someone listening to a youtube video blu toothed to a sound bar? Yes.

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KrasnayaZvezda@reddit

Now? Yeah. 40 years ago, before they learned how to master for digital, they did sound better.

One thing that I like about the vinyl hobby is that once you get the right equipment and learn how to set it up right, it’s amazing how well that old technology still works. I have a sound system with components made between 1959 and 1968 that would blow your mind.

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DoodleJake@reddit

Vinyls are mixed differently than other releases of albums. Or at least they used to be. There is an audible difference but it’s not in the quality of the sound.

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Apprehensive-Pin518@reddit

the difference is analog versus ditigal. you need a very high sampling rate for digital to sound like vinyl does naturally.

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Em42@reddit

As an elder millionaire/visit Gen X, I can tell you that the allure of vinyl isn't that it sounds better, it is that it sounds alive. Every record is a living thing, punctuated by every scratch and every mote of dust. When you listen to a digital copy, it's perfection. It's too good. It doesn't feel alive.

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Thomisawesome@reddit

Even back in the 90s, I had a friend who kept going on about how much better records are compared to CDs.

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SpaceCadetEdelman@reddit

You spelled bitter wrong

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Moist_Requirements_@reddit

Most grumpy old musicians I know still love analog.

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PickleJuiceMartini@reddit

Gen X here. I have two kids that are buying vinyls. I can’t understand stand it yet let them enjoy.

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Last-Stop-Before-You@reddit

Where I live vinyl started making a big comeback with mostly the hipster crowed back in the late 00s/early 10s.

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RayvinAzn@reddit

Hipster crowd? What a strange thing to call ravers. We were the ones that kept vinyl alive. We were the ones that kept companies like Technics in business. Well, us and the Hip hop Crowd. Club type folks. Discogs was essentially an EDM-only site for years.

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Dimac99@reddit

I'm pretty sure the only vinyl I have ever brought was a present for a friend. He wanted a Coldplay album. A raver, he is not!

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RayvinAzn@reddit

You live in the UK by any chance?

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Dimac99@reddit

Yes, Scotland.

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RayvinAzn@reddit

Ah. I do remember a few friends across the pond mentioning that vinyl never quite died there like it did here. Good to have confirmation.

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Last-Stop-Before-You@reddit

I didn’t speak about your experience. I’m just saying that in the city where I live it was hipsters who resurrected vinyl. The record stores came back in hipster heavy hoods and they fueled its comeback.

I don’t know what about that is insulting to you but again I made no comment on your personal history with records.

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RayvinAzn@reddit

Just pointing out that it wasn’t hipsters that saved the vinyl industry. It had a resurgence, sure, but that was only made possible because of people like me who kept the industry afloat for decades. Without us, there was nothing to save. Just want credit to go where it’s due.

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soniq__@reddit

The plural of vinyl is vinyl

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Cool-Acanthaceae8968@reddit

Yep. Both myself and my parents got our first CD players in 1993.

Never looked back to vinyl… ever.

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AcceptablyPotato@reddit

The hipster types are also rocking old walkmans and trying to bring back cassettes for some bizarre reason. I absolutely don't get it.

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aweedl@reddit

Tapes remain the most affordable way for independent artists to release physical copies of their own music.

Lots of genres (various subgenres of metal, punk/hardcore, etc.) never dropped cassettes as a format. I’ve been consistently buying new tapes for the past three decades (more!) without any interruption.

While I don’t necessarily understand buying a tape of some current top 40 artist whose music was created for streaming, tapes are still a very valid format for a lot of music out there.

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AcceptablyPotato@reddit

The same thing happened with vinyl in the 90's before vinyl got inexplicably popular again. The cheapest way for your shitty punk band to release your first album was vinyl.

The hipsters I'm talking about are purposefully buying up tapes even when other options exist. It has nothing to do with economics. It's just necromancing an old technology for the fashion of it while babbling about how the experience is more authentic and other complete bullshit.

Either way, tapes and records suck. All my old records and tapes from when I was younger are barely usable and sound like shit. My CDs have held up great though.

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aweedl@reddit

That’s too bad. I still have tapes and records from back then that sound as great as my CDe do.

I don’t have a problem with kids getting into tapes, no matter how disingenuous their reasons might be. Good for them.

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ShillinTheVillain@reddit

Cassettes are undeniably the worst medium. Rewind and search? Hard pass

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smoresporn0@reddit

On the flip side, audio quality, portability and durability are pretty good.

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Rabbits-in-my-Vagina@reddit

There used to be a thing called "albums"-- amazingly they'd just auto-play every song in order, one after the other. It was pretty great.

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ammonthenephite@reddit

It was great if the whole album was great. If there was just one or 2 songs you wanted to listen to, not so great, lol.

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Rabbits-in-my-Vagina@reddit

Right, thats why god invented mixtapes. Literally the reason.

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letharus@reddit

Nonsense. Mixtapes were invented to help teenage boys embarrass themselves by making one to impress a girl, only to get laughed at for their song choices and lameness of the attempt to hit on her.

Fuck you, Genevieve.

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cheltsie@reddit

I know we're talking music, but hard disagreed with VHS. I am still upset VHS went away. The grainy pictures worked so much better with some movies. It added an element to it, somehow.

I miss grainy Neverending Story and other Jim Henson era films.

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16Shells@reddit

mix tapes were the shit though. i owned maybe 1-2 actual cassettes but i had dozens of mix tapes and would trade with friends. playlists dont have the same vibe, infinite length and availability or music is the antithesis of finding the perfect songs and getting them to fit on each side.

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ShillinTheVillain@reddit

I guess we didn't have much else going on back then, we could afford to hover next to the stereo waiting to hit record when our song came on the radio.

I had mixtapes full of songs missing the first 5-10 seconds from being too slow. It's a fun memory, but man was it tedious.

CD-R was the shit

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mjp31514@reddit

They had their place when cars just had a tape deck. In modern times, though? Nah.

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photogypsy@reddit

My moms car had a fancy function where it would scan tapes for the next song. We thought we were the shit when we got it.

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

Nice! My dad used to have a linear tracking turntable that would do that for records. Peak mid-80s analog tech!

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ammonthenephite@reddit

We had this too! It was legit pretty sweet. It also had the automatic raising and lowering needle, so zero risk of scratching the record and always nailed the start of each song.

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V2BM@reddit

We were dirt poor but my mom had the sound system of a high falutin’ New York City yuppie. Auto okay and it was always perfect. I had to change out needles occasionally.

When she died my sister threw out hundreds of records going back to the 60s - Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, and so on - before I could get there to stop her.

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Cool-Acanthaceae8968@reddit

Yep.. but it has to have a space. If it’s continuous a la Dark Side of the Moon it doesn’t work.

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slypmpkn19@reddit

You were the shit!! My old boom box used to have that feature and I loved it!

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mjp31514@reddit

I had a friend whose dad had a tape deck with that feature. Seemed so amazing at the time.

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thejaytheory@reddit

Riding in my GNX, with Anita Baker in the tape deck

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adamroadmusic@reddit

There were some benefits, it was easy to record songs unlike CDs where copying and burning was pretty inaccessible early on, and only became widespread way later. And I had a portable tape recorder where you could speed up the songs, and it had a mic so I could record anywhere. I never had anything like that with CDs, the main benefit there was being able to skip to songs I wanted to hear.

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oldsmoBuick67@reddit

How much music would exist had there never been a Tascam 4-track PortaStudio?

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adamroadmusic@reddit

Wow, I totally recorded on one of those for a few years in the mid-to-late 90s/early 2000s. It was a good way for indie songwriters & non-mainstream bands to get music recorded, without shelling out thousands of dollars for studio time.

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Throw-away17465@reddit

Idunno, have you tried 8-tracks in a beater dodge dart?

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Ronthelodger@reddit

on some levels, that’s a feature. These days, we’re able to skip through stuff so fast that more time is spent skippingthan actually listening through music. There are lots of songs and albums that I wouldn’t have connected with if the Skip option was available

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letharus@reddit

Why doesn’t anybody bring back the Minidisc? I lived mine but feel its moment in the sub lasted about five minutes.

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The_Disapyrimid@reddit

Because it's cheap for inde bands to produce. Cassettes started making a comeback in the mid-2010s. So much vinyl was being pressed with do few companies doing the pressing that Cassettes became a cheap alternative without the long wait times of records.

But yeah, Cassette suck

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

I still have mine just for nostalgic purposes, but rarely listen to them. I stick to the CD or ripped versions.

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RadTimeWizard@reddit

I still have mix tapes from college.

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Sugar_Kowalczyk@reddit

I started on tapes, then a huge CD collection, right to a polyamorous sitch with Spotify and Vinyl. My housemate is back to tapes now.

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Geestus@reddit

Time real is a circle.

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ExtraNoise@reddit

I love 20th century tech and am happy to share my love for vinyls and cassettes with the younger generations. (Same with my love for film photography.)

Is the sound quality worse? Yeah. That's okay. I think it gives each album some character. What's that Japanese art of appreciating damaged things? The imperfections are what give it soul.

I'm glad there are kids out there that appreciate it. I'd love to normalize giving them a hand getting into it, not pulling the ladder up behind us in the cultural clubhouse.

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HomeAir@reddit

Vinyl feels like a more active listening experience. When that side of the album is done better get up quick. Also super hard to skip songs on a LP

It's forced me to listen to all songs on the album and find the true hidden gems

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ammonthenephite@reddit

Also super hard to skip songs on a LP

Even in the early 90's we had a record player that could see the gaps in songs and had a 'next song' button and would jump right to it, was pretty slick. I'd imagine they have something similar today.

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momofwon@reddit

No joke a few years ago my teenage niece got into cassettes and I was just like do not cite the deep magic to me.

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_Green_Redbull_@reddit

I have all those mediums and I still prefer my vinyl collection

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slademccoy47@reddit

There ain't no subscriptions out here on the high seas, matey.

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Ciqbern@reddit

Now we're back to vinyl. I'll take a little hiss over digital compression.

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Alustar@reddit

Don't forget that the advent of terabyte storage spaces made CDroms so obsolete record companies went back to vinyl.

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cathode-raygun@reddit

Dam straight!

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DryYogurt6878@reddit

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missingpieces82@reddit

As a xennial, I’m more angry that we were the generation duped into buying mini-disc.

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Scared_Breadfruit_26@reddit

This is true

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RetiredMakeupFXHuman@reddit

No they don’t. They have all the music on record, tape, CD, and digital files. Or they were stupid and got rid of it all and pay for subscriptions. Eew.

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RatherBeAtTheBeach44@reddit

I still have CDs, never went beyond that.

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Swamp_Donkey_7@reddit

I still have my CD's.

Just no damn CD player in the car to listen to them with.

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Extra-Mushrooms@reddit

Kind of convoluted, but I've seen Bluetooth CD players. Dumb workaround, but should work if your car has Bluetooth

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Swamp_Donkey_7@reddit

I’ve seen folks using USB cd players as well. Debating trying it, but worried the audio quality loss will make it pointless.

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Extra-Mushrooms@reddit

Yeah. Was more of thinking of a way to listen to your CDs in the car without a streaming service

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Spiritualtaco05@reddit

Wild to me that vehicles don't play physical media in any manner anymore. Your phone breaks and you're shit out of luck.

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ImpossibleCause1296@reddit

But who told you that you had to get rid of any of it?? You already paid for it once why make yourself do it again?

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bottleofgoop@reddit

And we had to pay for all of it. Again and again and again. So why do I feel bad about pirating music????

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Level_Fig_166@reddit

Mini-Disc.

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Seldarin@reddit

And 8 tracks if you're on the older end of Xennial.

Or if you ever bought a trans-am. I'm pretty sure every used trans-am came with an 8 track deck with a Blue Oyster Cult tape stuck in it.

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holdyouin@reddit

Nope. I stopped at MP3s. I've tried the subscriptions, and just.. no. I refuse. If I don't already have it, I don't need it.

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ProfessionalCan3732@reddit

Can confirm! I have owned all 5 Van Halen albums and about 6 AC/DC Albums on every platform and now pay a subscription. To name a few.

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OkArmy7059@reddit

Each phase was better than the presiding one. I'd never go back to any of the prior ones at this point. Best time to be a music lover in history.

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Fonzgarten@reddit

Forgot about the minidiscs.

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Dimac99@reddit

Nobody bought minidiscs so they were eminently forgettable, tbf.

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letharus@reddit

Hardly anybody had them sadly. I was one of them though, loved it.

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VitalArtifice@reddit

I mean, their CDs and MP3s should still work…

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BrainFartTheFirst@reddit

Mine still do. I do not subscribe to any music services.

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Spamberguesa@reddit

Same. I've just transferred my mp3s from computer to computer over the last 20+ years, and I'm possibly the last person on the planet who still uses an iPod. I refuse to subscribe to anything apart from Netflix, and that's only because it's the only way I discover new movies/shows (their prices might have gone up, but it's still cheaper than cable).

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Dimac99@reddit

I'm still rocking the 4GB Creative Zen Mosaic. I'm absolutely dreading the day it dies.

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BrainFartTheFirst@reddit

I have given up my iPod. All my mp3s are on my phone.

It holds more than my iPod did.

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Spamberguesa@reddit

I never swapped over to my phone for multiple reasons. I don't have (or want) an iPhone but I like using iTunes, and if I want to go for a walk, it's far easier to carry my iPod in a pocket than it would be my cell phone. I especially like going for walks in the summer, and no shorts I've ever found have pockets big enough to cram a phone in without the risk of it falling out and shattering on the sidewalk.

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theoskibear@reddit

Iphone mini + a folio case.

Although the minis are on limited time at this point.

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BrainFartTheFirst@reddit

For me the reason I switched was because I had a 16 gb iPod nano. Not only did I have way more music than it would fit but also I wanted something with Bluetooth.

One of the things that takes up a lot of space for me is actually my collection of radio shows from the 30s 40s and 50s.

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Spamberguesa@reddit

That makes sense. I still have 8 gigs left on mine because I did a big purge a while ago, and got rid of things I hadn't listened to in at least 15 years. I can see why radio shows would eat up a lot of space; I have a number of radio plays that partially inspired the purge, because they really are space hogs.

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idiotsbydesign@reddit

The only reason I gave in to subscription was that I can listen to anything at any time.

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redditcreditcardz@reddit

If they can find them in the garage…somewhere

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Ippus_21@reddit

And find a CD player that doesn't absolutely suck.

The last time I tried to find a decent CD player for less than a couple hundred bucks, there just aren't any. They're all cheap kitschy novelty crap. The last one I bought didn't last 6 months.

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Tiny-Reading5982@reddit

My car doesn't even have a cd player 😒

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Jonaldys@reddit

And a lot of Gen xers and millenials cars didn't either. That's why we installed aftermarket stereos.

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Tiny-Reading5982@reddit

My first car didn't, but I had a cassette player, so I used an adapter .

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theoskibear@reddit

It's possible to find NOS older models on sites like Ebay.

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FeebisBJoinkle@reddit

If you have a game console with a CD slot you have a great CD/DVD/Blu-Ray player already.

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Snrub1@reddit

Ps4 and PS5 can't play music CDs, sadly. As someone who still listens to music on CD though, I just use a cheap DVD player.

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Koil_ting@reddit

What, that's crazy. Xbox can though it no longer has the built in rip function that the 360 had.

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three-sense@reddit

I keep a ps3 just for blu rays, CDs and MGS4

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VitalArtifice@reddit

This is a reasonable solution. Plenty of those still readily available.

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dungeonmasterm@reddit

I got a Philips TAM6805/10 which has been pretty cool. It does cds, FM, DAB+, bluetooth and Spotify Connect for around 150 euros.

I even started buying cds again, second hand cds costs barely anything and i'm getting all the albums i couldn't afford when i was a teenagers.

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Ippus_21@reddit

Nice. I'll have to write that down somewhere and see if I can find one.

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StillhasaWiiU@reddit

DVD players are the best option now.

Sony still makes decent ones under $100.

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oldsmoBuick67@reddit

My circa 2000 JVC one still works and does a great job as a CD player.

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VitalArtifice@reddit

Do you mean a personal CD player? If so, you are definitely SOL. But if you want a CD player to hook up to a nice set of speakers, you still have choices.

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frankreynoldsrumham@reddit

For sure. I’d hunt down an old component CD player (Such as an old higher end name; Carver for example: which can be had for under 150usd usually).

Mine is so old it has two belts in it. One for opening/closing the drawer and another for .. I forget which part exactly. Was pretty simple to open up, found a universal belt kit (of varying sizes) designed for an old tape deck and replaced the broken belts. CD player is from the late 80’s. Granted it meant finding a receiver and speakers to connect, but worth it. :)

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Nate8727@reddit

Buy a Sony

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ArdenElle24@reddit

My son's truck has a cd player, so he listens to mine and my husband's old cds.

He doesn't have SYNC, so he uses the old style lighter plug-in we used for mp3s in the late 2000s to get Bluetooth.

He's really one of us.

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theoskibear@reddit

I hate Carplay in the vehicle I have. There's literally no way to disable auto-play from my phone, so every time I get in I have to stop the music or podcast. Spent a long time looking into car and phone settings, no dice. I either have to disable the link, or...it does its thing.

Best option I've found is an aftermarket bluetooth-to-radio transmitter.

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Throwaway_inSC_79@reddit

I know exactly what tote they’re in.

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MonkeyBred@reddit

Same.

I worked at a mall CD/DVD store that shut down in '07, and all "Accessories" were 75-90% off. I bought 4 pleather CD storage folders that hold 256 each.

Did I need that many? Why, yes. I worked at a damn CD store and accumulated over 1K albums.

Subsequently, I ripped them all, and they're on a microchip the size of my pinky nail.

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LemonPartyW0rldTour@reddit

You keep your MP3’s in a tote? I been using a hard drive like a friggin loser!

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Throwaway_inSC_79@reddit

The og iPod is likely in there too. And I have a hard drive somewhere. Don’t even have a computer anymore to hook it up to.

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redditcreditcardz@reddit

What an idiot

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musicaladhd@reddit

My iPhone won’t let me listen to MY OWN ORIGINAL SONGS due to not having the rights in my country. Im in the USA, the same lance I recorded my songs on my crappy laptop. They’re demos. I never published them. They went from the Garage Band saved songs folder to iTunes via “import to iTunes”. I’m literally the one person who has the most right to listen to recordings I made of myself. But I can’t do that.

Corporations are phasing out user control and ownership.

You’d think if you have a CD and a CD player, you can listen to the songs on it. And if that CD player is not connected to the internet, you might be right. Otherwise, you got a few years left before they force update your devices to only allow THEIR APPROVED content. Yes, this applies to your local files you literally own.

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cortesoft@reddit

Yeah, I still listen to the mp3s ripped from my CDs all the time.

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thegholahayt@reddit

No, that's illegal. Zoomers are forcing us to subscribe to everything. We're not allowed to play CDs or VHS tapes or any physical medial. It's against the law.

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Merusk@reddit

What compression were the MP3s. Ah, that lossy early 2000's fidelity.

I cherish my old CDs, though. Before the dark times; before audio loudness compression.

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Affectionate-Yak5280@reddit

Yeah, jokes on them, I never replaced my CD's!!

My in-laws come around now and ask why I still listen to CD's, my response is "No ads."

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The_GREAT_Gremlin@reddit

I replaced my car and the new one doesn't have a CD player. Bad call on my part

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Snrub1@reddit

And the CD can literally become an MP3 collection with a computer and a CD drive.....

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Procrasturbating@reddit

Nah, we went from CDs to piracy to subscriptions for convenience.

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noisemakermarie@reddit

And I’m holding onto CDs forever!! Eff the haters!!

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WanderingGenesis@reddit

...yall dont have a legacy collection of wmas, mp3s, flacs, and midis? Whats wrong with yall? I have a folder of like 120 albums ive been transfering between devices since 2007

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GrandMoffJed@reddit

I had like 20KL songs I had been building up since the 90's. After a couple decades I worried about drive failure and Google Music was offering to store all our files in the cloud and whenever we wanted them we could download them. They would even provide the highest quality of file available!

Before they killed that service they emailed saying to get your files and I requested them. I received 1000+ zip file download links with about 20 songs in each, not labled well. by this time I lost the original hard drive they were on.

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Tim-Sylvester@reddit

Hahah dude I did the same thing! I tossed them fuckers in Google Music for like 15 years then when they shut it down I pulled 'em all back out.

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GrandMoffJed@reddit

Did you actually unzip them all?? I said fuck this i'll do it later. Finally after a while I had a Saturday free and decided to go unzip all this stuff and the links no longer worked. it was all gone

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Tim-Sylvester@reddit

Could have been a setting b/c I only got a few. Each was many gig. So yes, I did unzip them.

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GrandMoffJed@reddit

Damn I must have fucked it up then.

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Tim-Sylvester@reddit

Or you did it early, and so did a lot of other people, and enough people complained that the files were too small and numerous, and Google updated it to provide larger files, then I came along after that and happened to be lucky enough to get the larger files because earlier users complained.

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GrandMoffJed@reddit

Yeah actually I did it as soon as I got the notice that i needed to.

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Tim-Sylvester@reddit

And I waited until the last day, so there we go.

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MotorbikeNick@reddit

Yeah and I still buy on iTunes. I just can’t get on board with Spotify/Apple Music/etc

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Novel_Towel6125@reddit

LOL at people keeping .mid files around. Sometimes canyon.mid is the vibe you need.

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WanderingGenesis@reddit

I was heavily involved in the chiptune and vgm scene, so i still have a lot of files from back in the day of og composers who now either do stuff professionally in the field for various studios or work at record labels now

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Novel_Towel6125@reddit

Chiptunes like sid, mod, xm kind of stuff I keep because it's the original format. .mid seems a bit different because you're totally at the mercy of whatever MIDI device it's attached to. Unless you've got the original device that it was composed for, I think I'd rather just keep a recording of it, but to each their own.

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WanderingGenesis@reddit

Completely understandable. Tbf, even though the instrumentation can def vary wildly based on what software or hardware its played on, theres still a lot of memories and nostalgia there, so parting with them isnt easy, especially onces made by friends.

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V2BM@reddit

I have all mine on CDs but I’m too lazy to look up how to transfer them to my laptop and then on to my phone now.

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WanderingGenesis@reddit

You better do it soon. People have already started to see the effects of glue degradation in discs, especially cds from the 80s and early gen dvds/vcds

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theoskibear@reddit

I have like 200 Gb of music. I mostly save full albums, 192 bitrate or better, although I have been settling for more singles nowadays. But only if they were released as singles. I honestly don't know why people deal with streaming services. The ads, the algorythms. All I want is what I like on shuffle.

On longer drives I'll often tune the FM for music stations to catch what's on the charts and find new stuff.

Spotify has ads...or else charges money...and you don't even get to download and own the music you're paying for... No thanks.

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WanderingGenesis@reddit

If i do liaten to radio, its either international radio through the radio garden app or ill tuns into local college stations. Thats how i discovered The Lees of Memory

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theoskibear@reddit

Interesting idea, thanks

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WanderingGenesis@reddit

Np. Yeah if youre any sort of audiophile, or just curious about whats out there, Radio Garden is a godsend. Especially when you consider its only a one time payment $3 to unlock premium, one of the best purchases i've ever made

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mikeisboris@reddit

I have an old desktop in the basement that my wife asked me if I was going to recycle. I was like, "No, that has 40 GB of MP3s I downloaded from Napster and Kazaa on it, I might need them someday."

I suppose I should boot it up and put them on a flash drive or something.

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theoskibear@reddit

Boot it up, get a VPN, and seeeeeed

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_mbals@reddit

I’d be curious to see what kind of fun viruses it has from the Kazaa era

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Le_Poop_Knife@reddit

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S1ayer@reddit

Ever since streaming services added Tool, it's been worth the 10 bucks a month.

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theoskibear@reddit

$10/mo at 5% after 50 years is over $25k...

At 10% it would be almost $150k.

...That's their business model.

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Thomisawesome@reddit

I got rid of all my CDs for digital close to 2007. But I took every single CD and ripped it to my computer, then uploaded all that to iTunes. So I still my entire CD collection digitally which is good, because iTunes has since gotten rid of some of the CDs I owned.

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Tim-Sylvester@reddit

Started in college with Napster. Stopped probably... '05? '06? But oh, the memories.

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Technical_Slip393@reddit

Seriously. I still have all those CDs and mp3s. I've bought mp3s of the newer stuff I like. I'm not subscribing to shit.

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hadesscion@reddit

Between music, movies/shows, and games, I'm up to about 12 TB of data, x3 for backup redundancy.

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hkohne@reddit

Me too

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damn_lies@reddit

I converted everything to mp3. But I just listen to Spotify.

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Hamrave@reddit

I have 2744 flac albums, and I just added like 80 more the other day. I use Plex like Spotify to stream my collection to my phone. I've been trying to find a device that'll hold ~1 TB of music that has good sound quality, but I haven't seen anything that fits or that I like yet.

I've hacked an iPod classic and upgraded the storage, but with that much media, it's starting to bug out.

Eventually, my digital hoarding is gonna pay off, right? ....right?

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WanderingGenesis@reddit

Hey, i was recently reminded that streaming isnt guaranteed when a youtube channel i followed that uploaded obscure jrock was recently taken down. Fortunately, the channel owner created a back up account and started reuploading all the songs lost under the previous account, but itn as a painful reminder that ownership trumps streaming, and that the idea of streaming is not a guarantee of access.

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three-sense@reddit

Yeah I’ve been listening to my mp3 rips since 2005. Nobody is making anyone switch to streaming

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GuyPierced@reddit

nah, I deleted everything that wasn't flac w/ cue, and a log like 10 years ago.

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Turbulent-Jaguar-909@reddit

you could even say you redacted it

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Spamberguesa@reddit

Same. I've got it all backed up on an external hard drive, too, so I won't lose it even if my computer somehow went tits-up.

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surlysquirrelly@reddit

Aaand, that 12 CDs for one penny scam was a...scam!

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enifsieus@reddit

False. We realized digital sucks and started vinyl collections before you were born.

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handsoffmydata@reddit

If anyone wants to know why Xennials are always mad, it’s because they had to buy GTA V on ps3, pc, ps4, and ps5. They were in their early 30s when GTA V released, and will be in their early 40s when GTA VI releases 😭

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Pinkkorn69@reddit

As a Xennial, when I replaced my few records with tapes and then had to do it with CD, I said never again. That's why I still have my CDs I got in 5th grade. Downloaded them to the computer and put them on my Ipod. Never repurchase anything after CDs.

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Marlboromatt324@reddit

I had the coolest cd binder in 2003 and I was 12 it had some badass cds I stole from my dad and some mixed cds we made. It’s how I was introduced to tenacious d

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BigBadWolf97@reddit

Don’t get me started on VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, etc. 😖

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napalmnacey@reddit

Yeah this is solid. It absolutely shits me to tears.

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Elmundopalladio@reddit

At least we missed the 8 track - although I did go down a diversion of minidiscs (and laserdiscs)!

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sfekty@reddit

I'm a boomer and I'm angry about it.

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Top_Sherbet_8524@reddit

That and vinyl is making a comeback

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DetroitsGoingToWin@reddit

TBF, I stole 75% of my CD’s off the internet

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SHY_TUCKER@reddit

I miss handmade mixtapes / pause mixes more than anything else we've lost. That was the most meaningful gift you could ever give or get. I can't think of anything modern that compares.

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blakealanm@reddit

What, did nobody teach Gen x about running their own server?

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Weak-Minute8294@reddit

The shared trauma of my generation goes deep.

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DBE113301@reddit

I still have an mp3 player. It's nice if I want to listen to something specific.

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OldPros@reddit

Really?...talk to a boomer. LP's to 8-track to cassette to CD's to MP3 download to subscription.

Yes, I still have all of my LP's.

Feel our pain!

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

Reminds me of a post I saw a while ago in the GenX sub. OP was remembering going to the car dealership with their father in 1978 to buy their families' first brand new car. This car came with a fancy new cassette deck. The dad actually said to the salesman, "If you'll rip out that tape deck, and replace it with an 8-track player, you've got a deal. I want a car with a reliable radio." 😂

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OldPros@reddit

Well...you have to understand that the boomers born from the mid 40's through 1962 were kind of stupid, what with the DDT and all. The boomers born in '62 and '63 are the smart ones.

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reddituser8719192@reddit

ok, boomer

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Fairycharmd@reddit

As foretold by Tommy Lee Jones in MIB.

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badannbad@reddit

My grandparents had an 8 track so I listened to those too.

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SQL215@reddit

As a movie collector to this day, I feel this. They better not come out with 8k. I’m not starting all over again for the 10th time

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mackattacknj83@reddit

Can't get me to complain about having access to every song ever recorded in human history for like $10/mth

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Striking-Access-236@reddit

You can still listen to your old records…how slavish is this to do what the market dictates? Guess us Xennials are more flexible than this, no?

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LangdonAlg3r@reddit

Did we forget 8 tracks? Or are we just broadly putting that under the umbrella of “tapes”?

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MsJenX@reddit

Guys, you do not need to subscribe to anything. Just buy the song. If you end your subscription you don’t get to keep the songs is my understanding.

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FickleAcadia7068@reddit

I embraced mp3 so fast. I hated CDs, mostly because my discman was big and bulky and impractical.

These days I refuse to pay for a music subscription and strictly use free. Having lived through the 90s when you'd listen to ten minutes of radio for 6 minutes of ads, I can live with Spotify free. And because I built my own Playlist, every song on there is one I like. Back in the days of radio, after you finished watching all those ads you had to hope that the song that came on was one you'd like. Spotify will never get a cent out of me.

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umbium@reddit

Ya know you can still download songs to your phone, right?

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Divinum_Fulmen@reddit

MP3 until the end. I can take my music with me, on any device, without a connection. I don't have to worry about disc rot, or tapes being eaten, or ads, or tracks I don't care about.

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umbium@reddit

Bruh what? I still buy CD and have my sound system, and I still buy blurays.

You don't HAVE to change into a subscription streaming service. You can literally keep buying CD, or downloading songs to an SD and insert it into your soundsystem or your phone.

I wish everyone realize the big scam of streaming services, that ask you for ever increasing money tax for no value at all for you.

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agentmkultra666@reddit

Some of us just kept our tape collection going. Still mad though, just about other stuff.

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

I gave up bruh

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RedditStaffRapeKids@reddit

why would they need a subscription to listen to music if they already have an Mp3 collection? This makes no sense.

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GottaUseEmAll@reddit

They didn't HAVE to do any of that.

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Thomisawesome@reddit

What I'm pissed about is that if I want to go back to CDs or records, it's going to cost so damn much because it's all vintage and retro now.

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u4got2wipe@reddit

You ever try to put a cd rip on your iPhone? Holy shit

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subjectiv-inflectiv@reddit

This is true.

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Positively_Eric@reddit

What happened to their 8-track collection?

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tom_friday_@reddit

HOW MANY TIMES MUST A PAY FOR SPANDAU BALLET!?!?!

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Hefty_Tackle_5651@reddit

i still listen to cds tho

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ophaus@reddit

Honestly... Fucking annoying.

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Pen_lsland@reddit

Its sad that cds and mp3 just stopped working😥

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_deleteded_@reddit

I cancelled my subscription and I’m buying vinyl and CDs since a couple of months. I rip the CDs in FLAC to my NAS for convenience.

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Jokierre@reddit

🏴‍☠️ The flag that’s made the bitter reality pretty sweet

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aweedl@reddit

Easy solution: I just never stopped listening to records, tapes and CDs. Skipped MP3s and streaming entirely.

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Sea_Appearance6540@reddit

And then...all the music was suddenly rereleased on vinyl (WTF) after being told that CDs were the ultimate listening expereince. They then had to buy said vinyl (WTF) that was now 3-5 times the price since the last time they bought it, but somehow now sounding considerably worse than said CD. But in the end it's all online for free anyway. Yeah...

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gcloadie@reddit

Some of us on the fringe even had eight tracks.....

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Sufficient-Narwhal80@reddit

Yes, and the water was free, and you paid for porn now you pay for water, and porn is free

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No-Emu-8717@reddit

Didn't include my minidisc collection

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ApatheistHeretic@reddit

Uh, I ripped my CDs to MP3 and you can too. It's also faster and cheaper to buy MP3s now than CDs ever were! We won the music war, quit yer bitchin' and go buy some jams!

Tapes were always low quality and we knew it even when they were new. Records didn't work in the car (except for that one ridiculous car...).

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greenerbeansheen@reddit

SoundCloud all day long

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brentsg@reddit

Also, a bunch of us had old shitty cars with 8 track players in them as a first car.

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hadesscion@reddit

We also had to trade our Beta/VHS for Laserdisc, then DVD, then BluRay, then 4K/digital and/or Netflix and a million other subscription services.

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Mountain-Fox-2123@reddit

Actually you did not have to replace it.

You choice to replace it, out if your own free will, nobody forced you.

Stop whining about choices you did out of your own free will.

You can still use physical media, you can still collect it, nobody made you get rid of it.

I am using the generic you.

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OldPros@reddit

Wow...a little grouchy this morning?

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Mountain-Fox-2123@reddit

Its the evening for me, and no, i am just stating a fact.

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theecommunist@reddit

Wow...a little grouchy this evening?

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dudemanspecial@reddit

You are correct that nobody MADE you get rid of physical media, however technology made it very inconvenient to not move on from it. It's harder to get physical media now, it's harder to buy computers and cars with the ability to play physical media, its hard not to own a smart phone, which doesn't accept physical media, so you would have to carry a separate device to play your physical media.

So yeah, it's not that simple.

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Mountain-Fox-2123@reddit

Its been very simple for me.

I have collected physical media for over 20 years, and personally it has always been simple, i have no problem finding CD players or DVD/Blu-Ray players when i need to.

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Spamberguesa@reddit

I wouldn't have switched to CDs if cassettes hadn't wound up basically impossible to find (at least where I live) by the 2000s. I still have a lot of cassettes from the 80s and 90s and no way to listen to them. Record players likewise all but vanished until the last 10 years or so, so when mine broke in high school, that was the end of that. CDs were far too expensive for teenage me, especially since I often only liked 1-2 songs off any given album. The rise of mp3's was fantastic, because now I can just buy whatever song I like and actually keep it on my computer. Fuck this streaming bullshit.

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Dadaiste@reddit

And Grandad still let me borrow his Marvin Gaye record for date night. Let's get it on...

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JustAnotherRandoGuy1@reddit

Nah.

I miss blue cinemaxx

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TomeThugNHarmony4664@reddit

So damn true.

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shaft_of_lite@reddit

I am not mad about the subscription service. I have spent way less money on music than I would have otherwise. It leaves me a lot more money to go see those artists live.

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Druidicflow@reddit

I still prefer CDs, tbh

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16Shells@reddit

or… keep it all. i’ve been collecting records since elementary in the 80s, CDs in the 90. mix tapes spanning both (i miss mix tapes). mp3’s were great because they were way more convenient and less battery intensive than a walkman or portable cd player, and they were free so less cds and records were bought but i never threw my collection away.

now that i’m an adult i have a good stereo setup and can appreciate it more so the cds and records get more playtime. but if im in the go, streaming or flac on my phone makes sense.

you never “had” to throw away or replace anything. if you did, maybe you were more casual about music than you’ll admit to yourself.

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Interesting_Ad7861@reddit

We tried to tell you.

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furrymacaroni@reddit

So true!

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LopsidedCup4485@reddit

I’m pretty sure I had the Ghostbusters soundtrack on 8 track.

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Witty-Common-1210@reddit

Don’t forget about VHS to DVD to BluRay to Digital

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Home1Plate2@reddit

THIS IS WHY I HAVE AN ANDROID PHONE WITH A MEMORY CARD. YOU FUCKERS WILL NOT TAKE MY MUSIC FROM ME AGAIN! STREAM THIS, YOU GODDAM ASSHOLES! 🖕

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Liljoker30@reddit

I forget GenX exists sometimes.

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Abjak180@reddit

Just wanted to point out...they didn't *have* to do anything. They chose as a generation to partake in consumerism and replace their technology over and over again with the next new thing. All of these products still exist and work today, they just wanted the next big thing and they chose to get it.

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Upbeat_Bet_6708@reddit

I just heard the other day that certain original CDs that I used to have are worth a lot of money on eBay. Of course I don’t have them anymore.

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freyja2023@reddit

Jokes on you, I still have most of my CDs plus who knows how many flash drives filled with ripped mp3s and torrents lol

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BootsOfProwess@reddit

As a millennial i legit download all of my music to my phone and I never pay for any of it. Im at the same point I was in 1999 with my first mp3 player. It was never hard, Gen X just can't use a computer.

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Mr_Perfect22@reddit

Also VHS to DVD to Blu Ray to digital to subscription.

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magicweasel69@reddit

I had a minidisc in there somewhere as well

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That_Jay_Money@reddit

The younger and older generations on either side of me do not believe in my media server.

"You guys, you get to own your streaming movies, you get to own your music!" They'll come around. Dummies.

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Limberpuppy@reddit

I still have all my CD’s but I don’t own anything to actually play them on.

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MozhetBeatz@reddit

Posts meme with millennial in the picture

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Seranos314@reddit

And all those records they tossed are worth money

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ConsistentStand2487@reddit

If you have your CD collection digitize it via flac

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specimenhustler@reddit

You forgot laser disk 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Jonaldys@reddit

Who took away your CD's? Who took away your MP3's? I'm sure the artists would appreciate it if you DID but their CDs.

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Overall_Falcon_8526@reddit

Did they have to, though? I just kept my CDs and ripped them to FLAC over the last few years. Streaming's for suckers.

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gringo1980@reddit

I’d agree owning music is better, but streaming offers me ways to find new music I dig that just keeping old media wouldn’t

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_sloop@reddit

For me, the algorithm just keeps trending towards worse and worse "popular" music the more I use any of the streaming services.

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Dahnlen@reddit

You’re only “finding” the music they let you find

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gringo1980@reddit

Yeah? I mean it’s music I wouldn’t have known about otherwise which matches bands and songs I like… not sure what your point is?

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FeebisBJoinkle@reddit

Find a streaming service that you know a 3rd party makes a free tool that will let you rip the FLAC files from said streaming service.

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Overall_Falcon_8526@reddit

Yeah, discovery is an onoing problem. I guess for me YouTube is the way I hear new stuff.

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Spamberguesa@reddit

Discovering music is pretty much the only thing I use YouTube for anymore. Mostly I hear new music if it's recommended to me by friends who have similar taste.

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Throwaway_inSC_79@reddit

And if I want to just listen to something different sometimes. I turned on some NWA today. I don’t own anything by them. But I could listen on Spotify.

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nihility101@reddit

GenX passing through from r/all, no they didn’t. I still have all my records, tapes, and CDs. I did go to the trouble of downloading all of them to mp3s though. Mainly listen to records and MP3’s.

This sort of garden hose feral kid boomer-lite Facebook shit is getting annoying though. Real GenX just want to be left the fuck alone.

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ammonthenephite@reddit

Streaming's for suckers.

Eh, streaming is high enough quality for most, and the conveniece and cost advantage of streaming is nigh impossible to beat. I have over 1500 songs from over 800 different albums on my phone, with access to hundreds of thousands more with a mere search. My high end headphones and my ears can barely tell the difference in quality between flac and highquality streaming, especially on services that offer very high quality streaming like TIDAL and such.

I simply could not afford to enjoy music like I do were it not for streaming services, and def would not have discovered all the new artists and music I have were it not for streaming.

You just couldn't pay me to go back.

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Overall_Falcon_8526@reddit

I don't have a problem with sound quality. You're 100% right about the general equivalence in quality (especially at our age). I just hate paying for yet another monthly subscription.

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norwal42@reddit

Right on. Free streaming is great for music exploration - I winnow down playlists: new music to listen to > favs > listen to full album > albums/songs to buy

Then use music budget to buy digital albums or individual songs as desired, or get the vinyl + digital for the best record-player albums I'll enjoy listening to in that format. Still cheaper than streaming subscription (depending how much you want to buy) and my owned music collection continues to grow.

Can listen to any/all of my favs any time on any device I want, 'loan' access to friends via Plex server or just file share (and encourage them to buy it, support artists if they like it), or pass them on to my kids when I want to and/or when I tip over.

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redditprofile99@reddit

I disagree. I'm a purger. I hate having things I don't need and I love that I can listen to any song I want at anytime. Streaming is perfect for me. I wouldn't go back.

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Merusk@reddit

Until you can't find a song or an artist/ label delists an album.

I've had a problem keeping regular access on Spotify to some of my favorite Monster Magnet songs over the years. There was some kind of rights issue with one of their releases. Was able to keep my rip going instead.

"Cop Killer" by Body Count has been covered and is available, but the original by ICE-T isn't.

For a while Megadeth had replaced the killer original "Rust In Peace" with a really bad 2004 remaster.

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Procrasturbating@reddit

I did a huge purge. Short of a couple of physical books, I had zero physical media in the house. I have gotten back into collecting records just to have some cheap art around the house. It is nice to commit to an album.. there is a ritual to vinyl. I suppose I just admire the inconvenience of it all.

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Overall_Falcon_8526@reddit

I get that. Different strokes :-)

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PoorGovtDoctor@reddit

Easy to do as you’re going along, but ripping hundreds of them just seems too daunting

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Overall_Falcon_8526@reddit

Exact Audio Copy, detachable DVD-ROM drive, and a show to binge (I like Star Trek for ripping music).

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torino_nera@reddit

EAC with FLAC frontend is the GOAT

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DINGERSandBEER@reddit

At a time, sure. I rip what I want on hand and the rest of the physical CDs are there in case my drives fail.

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KevinStoley@reddit

Eh, I grew up with physical media and there's certainly a nostalgia for it, but imo streaming is far superior and way more convenient. Saying it's for suckers sounds like some "get off my lawn" type talk of someone just looking to hate on something with no reason.

Spotify is dirt cheap, like $10/month for the basic add free plan. You get access to an almost infinite catalogue of music, not to mention other things like podcasts.

The algorithm is great, it's really good at finding new music similar to what you like and curating playlists, etc. I love 80s and 90s music and used to think music today sucks so much, but with Spotify I've found so many newer, modern artists that make music that perfectly matches my taste and preference, including finding new things I never even knew I would like.

Some of my current favorite artists and bands I would have never discovered without Spotify.

I have tons of specific playlists I can easily access and play with just a voice command, or I can listen to other peoples playlists or even use the "go to radio" for a specific song which will play similar songs (again, I've found so many good songs and artists this way)

You should really give it a chance, it's pretty awesome.

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Ippus_21@reddit

I'm just cheap and put up with the ads on YT or Pandora or whatever. It's mostly not any worse than listening to the radio used to be.

My teen says Spotify's not too bad, ad-wise.

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nottodaysatan317@reddit

I say this all the time. Everytime I hear born to run or dark side of the moon I point out that I bought them both (and lots others) on vinyl, 8 track, cassette, CD and now pay to stream. You are welcome Bruce.

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Cameront9@reddit

Look, it’s their fault for not just ripping their CDs. No need to replace everything.

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wubrotherno1@reddit

Psh! Just because music was downloadable, didn’t stop me from still buying physical media. Who makes these dumb things?

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Last-Stop-Before-You@reddit

As a Xennial I never had a record collection, my dad did. Never had much in the way of tapes either TBH. My real collection started with CDs before I got mostly into MP3 in college in the early 00s.

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mummifiedclown@reddit

That tracks

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Vanman04@reddit

Um did we not learn how to rip music in the late 90s?

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Patimakan@reddit

I feel that.

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Pred-Al1en@reddit

I can complain about this alllll day!

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Ching-Dai@reddit

Nods in sadness

I’ve always been a collector. Had an amazing tape collection, which over the years morphed into over 400 cds.

Then I made the poor decision to begin ‘purchasing’ music through iTunes. I was doing fairly well financially at the time, so I dove in. And to really double down, I ripped the majority (no joke) of my cds, so I could have this awesome library. This made me very anti steaming music. I truly am a seer of the future.

During this time I got really into creating custom playlists. To toot my own horn, I make pretty damn good playlists.

Now, 2 computers later and most of my playlists and library have issues. And everything has been in storage for over a year. My passion for the music I’ve owned is greatly diminished, to say the least.

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Asthmatic_Gym_Bro@reddit

Some of us still buy CDs.

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alexmehdi@reddit

No one made them do any of that tho.

You can still own a record player or a vcr, it's not hard at all.

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Z0idberg_MD@reddit

Mad? No, they’re apathetic and barely present in the progression of society. Not a force in politics or culture. They “reality bites” right past a part of American history and influence.

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OkieRising@reddit

Don’t forget beta to VHS to laser disc to dvd to Blu-ray to subscription

I’m sure I’m forgetting something. Lol

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Gransmithy@reddit

You forgot HD-DVD.

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PersonalityNo4679@reddit

Not to mention vcr tape to dvd converting

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Gransmithy@reddit

And Betamax to laserdisc.

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Round_Ad_1952@reddit

I'm embracing tradition.

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Gransmithy@reddit

He forgot 8-track and minidisc.

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5hallowbutdeep@reddit

Still got my minidiscs mixes and cds

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Comfortable-Ad-3988@reddit

And Apple charging me a monthly fee to listen to MY OWN FUCKING MUSIC.

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verumvia@reddit

This is the most boomer shit I've seen all week and it's specifically about gen x

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Weird-Ninja8827@reddit

Welcome to my boneyard of antiquated music listening. Therr is still a cassette deck that kinda works and everything.

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Rumbling-Axe@reddit

And now I’m buying vinyl again. Cool beans.

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TollyVonTheDruth@reddit

Right? Let's not get started on our movies collection journey.

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dharh@reddit

I kept all that shit. I listen to new stuff via streaming, but honestly I use all my old stuff.

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kinlopunim@reddit

"...and now the records they replaced are being sold at 10x the cost."

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Numerous-Process2981@reddit

Turns out they didn’t have to do any of that

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JakkSplatt@reddit

🤔

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Fun-Preparation-4253@reddit

If anybody wants to know why GenX is always mad, it's because they choose to be. More and more they're becoming insufferable.

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OoT-TheBest@reddit

I think we are happy as fuck, minding our own business. Have we started to sour, boomer-style?

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Merusk@reddit

A lot have, yes. Along with the "back in my day" bullshit Boomers leaned into in their '50s. Class of 1992 here and I'm seeing it a lot in the GenX sub and other soc. media aimed at geezers like me.

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South_Dakota_Boy@reddit

'94 here and I agree. GenX sub is kinda terrible.

I prefer /r/Xennials myself - i went to college late and I identify with them much more than straight up GenX.

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ammonthenephite@reddit

I do find myself getting annoyed with some things that didn't used to bother me, but that is more a factor of me just being more tired all the time than I used to be, lol. I think that is what gets most older people, the ever increasing perpetual tiredness and exhaustion, which just lowers your overall ability to tolerate things you once had no problem tolerating.

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TheDeadlyCat@reddit

I browse on the GenX subreddit sometimes and in the last year the content has become so repetitive that it makes me feel like mostly reposting bots are active there now.

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ckglle3lle@reddit

It went from "It's actually kinda cool being the overlooked generation who isn't really known for anything, we're just vibing" to "Gen X's whole identity is being irked by everything, what makes us Gen X is being mad, everyone else can suck it!"

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PickleJuiceMartini@reddit

Gen X. You can add on owning Beta, then VHS, VHS widescreen, then DVD, then Blu-ray, and now 4k. I couldn’t afford Laserdisc :(

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algarhythms@reddit

No ya didn't.

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Jendaye@reddit

They're always angry because they mainline Fox news anger porn all day every day

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DeadpoolAndFriends@reddit

... I YouTube any song I want to listen to.

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hammer2k5@reddit

Convert your CDs to MP3. Setup a Plex server on your computer. Install PlexAmp on your mobile device. You'll never have to pay to a subscription again and you can listen to your OWN music completely commercial free so long as you have an internet connected device. There are plenty of YouTube videos and online tutorials available if this is something that interests you.

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TheFabulousMolar@reddit

And we can't own our own homes

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zippyspinhead@reddit

Boomer, here

tapes and 8 tracks, too

Vinyl and CD got ripped to mp3 and I have not listened to new music since 2010, unless it is on youtube.

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Eastbound_AKA@reddit

Hahaha, oh it's so funny! Because it was an inconvenience! I get it!

Now I cannot afford to buy a house making 78K a year.

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ImmaDrainOnSociety@reddit

I kinda jumped from cassette to MP3. I usually only listen to music when I'm outside and Walkman's don't skip.

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draculawater@reddit

Streaming is neat in theory, but it’s not for me. I still buy CDs (when I can, some artists go straight to streaming-only now) and curate a digital library. It’s getting harder to play that library in my car, but I prefer the extra hurdle or two over paying for a service where I’ll never own anything, not everything I want is available, and it can come and go at any time.

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Apprehensive-Pin518@reddit

don't need a subscription to listen to music. especially if you know anything about ripping music off CD's. My dad connected his record player to his computer and digitized all of his record collection. It's all in how much you want it.

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AytumnRain@reddit

Why? I still have CD's, tapes vinyls, and MP'3 that I still listen to. I used CD's until about 2010 and started back again when I had a car with CD player in it. As long as you have the tech and the means to use them. I need a cassette play atm though I'm about to get.

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Akiranar@reddit

Truth. Annoying AF.

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Kraelan@reddit

The number one reason to embrace digital was getting from Kazaa.

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Mediocre-Celery-5518@reddit

It took me a VERY long time to wrap my mind around skinny jeans and twist my sense of aesthetic to perceive them as good looking. Now they are doing it again with the barrel leg jeans and my sense of aesthetic is just too crusty at this point to afford any more bending.

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Retirednypd@reddit

And some even had to replace their 8 tracks

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JasiNtech@reddit

You didn't have to do any of that, yet chose to. Stop bitching already, you sound like fucking boomers lol.

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schlaubee@reddit

What about the minidisc?!

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tristero200@reddit

No kidding. Although I never owned much music from the pre-CD era and I was able to rip nearly all of those onto my hard drive so I got to cheat a little bit.

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AliceLunar@reddit

And now the subscription services is endlessly increasing in cost whilst decreasing in quality and forcing crap AI music into playlists so they can make even more profit.

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Pizzasaurus-Rex@reddit

I made the decision to go back to CDs recently. If boomers can have their vinyl, I can put a CD into my old-ass car. I live in a valley in the middle of nowhere, streaming gets interrupted constantly and radio is dead outside of christian stations and one top 40.

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ammonthenephite@reddit

Would a car stereo even be able to show the difference in sound quality between FLAC/a CD vs the same song from spotify on high quality? Mine wouldn't. Hell, my high end headphones and my ears can barely tell.

Streaming is just way too convenient, both for discovering new music and overall cost of a music library, for me to ever want to go back.

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burning-lad@reddit

I wish I had all my old CDs. Not all of them made it to streaming.

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ammonthenephite@reddit

Ya, there are one or two old techno albums that were just amazing, but that I've never been able to find, in large part because I can't remember the name of the artis, album or songs, lol. And there was just so much techno during the 90's that it would be near impossible to wade through it all to find it.

Aside from that though, streaming has been amazing, I couldn't go back.

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Sabbathius@reddit

Somewhat accurate. Converting from vinyl to WAV to FLAC has been...interesting.

Although I gotta say, hardware is magic now. I have tiny IEMs that have one dynamic driver, one planar and one piezoelectric, and they sound amazing. And hooked to a digital player that looks like an old Walkman, but TINY! (for anyone who cares, it's Snowsky Echo Mini).

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Horror_Dot4213@reddit

Who made them replace it? Did it suddenly stop working

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dworley@reddit

Are you fucking kidding me. Who gives a shit about CDs.

I'm angry I didn't get a magic sword, semi-diverse group of friends who regularly risk their lives for me, or even a stupid little goddamn alien I have to hide in a closet.

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rolfraikou@reddit

Early millennial, still had to do most of that, but didn't have a massive tape collection because I was young. But boy howdy, the CD collection was massive.

And then I stopped at mp3. I can still buy mp3s from new albums, and I have them even if a contract ends between companies.

I got an android automotive (not auto, this thing is basically an android tablet, so local files-no phone needed) head unit with two USB ports and a micro SD slot, each holding up to 128gb.

I have thumb drive mix tapes.

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ElectroSpore@reddit

Walkman came out in 1979 ish.. I skipped records started on cassette, moved to CD then Ripped my CDs to MP3 or collected via Napster/WinMX/Limeware etc etc. for years. Then itunes for a little before going Spotify.

Still have the MP3s + Spotify

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skotgil2@reddit

records replaced with 8 tracks, replaced 8 tracks with cassettes, replace those with CD, then with mp3.

My records still sound the best.

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vossrod@reddit

Yes this a factor

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Boiledfootballeather@reddit

I never stopped with vinyl. Moving sucks.

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orion197024@reddit

But if you saved your records you’re ahead of the game.

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jhguitarfreak@reddit

I mean, if they had just kept one of the previous collections they wouldn't need a subscription at all.

Not to mention vinyl, tape, CD, and MP3/M4A/FLAC releases still exist.

No ones fault but themselves if they went all in on Spotify.

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-HHANZO-@reddit

Not sure how warranted the whole Gen X mad thing is, but I was thinking how they were the first kids to experience high rates of divorce. Laws opened up in the 70s, they were the first generation to experience it on mass. The Boomer's parents (the Greatest Generation) didn't divorce at all, it was actually taboo.

Just a thought, interested to hear what others might think.

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Daniel0745@reddit

I never got rid of my cds.

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enayjay_iv@reddit

Mmmmmm the slow long brew of commercial capitalism.

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Calm-Memory5965@reddit

That's exactly why we're mad 💯

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naamingebruik@reddit

I never had records.

My daughter has a few as she recently bought a record player because her best friend is very much into cd's and lp's

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jessek@reddit

For the last time, no one “replaced” their records with tapes, they made tapes from their records. No replaced their CDs with MP3s, they ripped their CDs to the computer as MP3s. Stop posting this stupid baby boomer on Facebook shit here, it’s old and it sucks.

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Autoganz@reddit

They’re mad because they never learned how to sail the seven seas.

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zoominzacks@reddit

Don’t worry, they can just make that part of their personality. Like with the whole “i drank from the hose” thing

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Eikthyrnir13@reddit

My partner and I have gone all the way back around to vinyl. It is glorious. Players these days can skip to the next track with a push of a button on a remote.

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RegretAccumulator72@reddit

Sort of like that but with Star Wars with different versions over different formats.

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OccidentalTouriste@reddit

No Minidisk?

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DoctorQuarex@reddit

Never would have thought as a kid that my parents' reluctance to let me spend money on music would end up being my saving grace; by the time I could afford to buy stuff it was all CDs, and then I just ripped all of those CDs to .MP3 over the span of a few years in the early 2000s and still listen to all of them today (still have the CDs, too; I knew this day would come when they were back in vogue)

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BoboliBurt@reddit

Gen X is mad because so many went in on grunge.

Then Cobain died, the Weiland went on MTV Unplugged and looked like an impotent drooling hype- which was juxtaposed a few months later with the very virile Boomer Tony Bennett on the same show strutting around like the swinging dick- essentially cucking the young gen of the time on a corporate platform that supposedly catered to their tastes.

Check mate. Grunge dead as a “pop music”. Tony Bennett killed it dead in an hour. Who seemed more admirable and worthy of emulating? Which personal style was more likely “pull trim” or even see the magic 27th Bday in the parlance of the time.

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StillhasaWiiU@reddit

They "had" to? I don't remember being forced into anything.

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DoctorFenix@reddit

"I'm angry that I decided to not listen to my physical media anymore!"

You are?

"Yeah... like.... there's laws against it now!"

No there aren't.

"No... no there aren't. BUT COULD YOU IMAGINE IF THERE WERE!?"

This meme is dumb as fuck

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Merusk@reddit

Now do my movie collection.

I've bought some movies about 5 times now. Screw streaming, that's just playing "take an hour+ to find and subscribe to where it's playing this quarter."

My wife and I started buying physical media again because of the time it took to find anything. Then it was either playing ONLY on a free stream with commercials or buying the DVD/ BluRay from Amazon was the same price as the rental. Made it an easy choice.

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Quixotegut@reddit

It's not that... exactly.

It's that, but with regards to our cars.

We no longer have the ability to listen to analog media in our cars by default.

I have vinyl, cd, cassette players at home.

My car? Bluetooth... unless I pay for a CD changer.

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Spamberguesa@reddit

My car (which is admittedly 10 years old) has a plug-in for a cord for a phone or iPod. I've used the latter since forever. ngl, I don't even know how to use my car's bluetooth.

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Quixotegut@reddit

But that's just it... it's an AUX port. While you could plug in a Discman, but notice how you went for two digital playback devices?

Cars aren't made with CD players any more.

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Spamberguesa@reddit

I wonder when that stopped (CD players, I mean). My first car was so old it had a cassette deck, which I swapped out for a CD player in...2003, ish? I still have one of those big books with sleeves full of CDs (as well as one of DVDs), but the advantage of digital is that I can create essentially however many mix tapes I want, without having to rip and burn a CD. I did that for years, but I appreciate that I can swap the order and contents of a playlist at will without having to burn a whole other CD.

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Quixotegut@reddit

Within the last 10 years. My old car had one. And it was a 2016.

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chocki305@reddit

But all the old mp3s we downloaded.. still work.

Our entire music library fits on a single USB drive. And they work just fine in the car.

No Spotify or XM needed. I have 2000+ songs at my finger tips.

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ckglle3lle@reddit

Recently set up my old CD player again and have been enjoying it a lot

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IowaLightning@reddit

...and now some of us are replacing our streaming services with records.

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RogerRavvit88@reddit

Local library where I live lets me browse CDs from their entire branch network and select what I want. They then ship them all to my designated library and tell me when I can come pick them up. Up to 100 CDs at once. I take them home and rip them all directly into my collection. Ipso facto I now own all of the music I care to listen to I perpetuity. The selection is surprisingly recent. Nothing worth listening to has come input since they stopped releasing everything in CD anyways, so this works just fine for me.

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anonuemus@reddit

I still have to decks and my records. also a lot of tapes, but no player currently. Few years later I started to buy CDs to start a collection or something. I bought them from Amazon where I could download the digital version too. My new CDs are still sealed, I stopped buying them, going back to vinyl...

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hjeff51@reddit

Been mp3 since 2002. Only new thing is FLAC, and thats a different program to use in my workflow.

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Fast_Satisfaction484@reddit

Those little bastards laugh that I still use my iPod. I ain’t doing it again. I bought Bat out of Hell on LP, Tape, CD…burned it on to the iPod. That’s it. Meat loaf gets nothing more from me.

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TheDeadlyCat@reddit

IDK, I still prefer MP3s. Compatible with everything. They work well. I have them already.

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Bed_Particular@reddit

Don’t forget 8 tracks and mini discs. What a time to be alive.

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Professional_Milk783@reddit

Just saying, sites like Spotify downloaded exist and are free…

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ComeWithMe-429@reddit

Precisely!!

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Start_a_riot271@reddit

I mean, as gen z the only part of this I don't relate to is the tape collection. Other than that I went through the exact same process, Cds -> mp3 -> streaming

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RemoteBoner@reddit

You never needed anything except the vinyl we just let them sell us useless shit bc we were force fed commercial after commercial for our entire childhood.

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Plumb_Level@reddit

Now I'm back to records...

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LemonPartyW0rldTour@reddit

Subscription? Ha!

🏴‍☠️

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TealTemptress@reddit

Don’t forget the 8-tracks we were listening to in our parents’ Gremlin with the rusted out floor.

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rott@reddit

Come one, no one replaced records with tapes. We used tapes for walkmans and cars exclusively.

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nocapnonerf@reddit

There’s always the radio 📻

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Ok_Breakfast5425@reddit

Not here, it's either top 40, sports, right wing talk, sports, one generic ass classic rock station, religious stuff, or more sports

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Hetjr@reddit

I love radio but, even here in Philly, there’s “active rock” in like wmmr and some classic rock, etc… but the ALL play already established bands/groups. They very rarely play anything new. And when they do, they fade away quickly. It gets so boring. One thing i love about streaming is the recommendations based in my listening history. Radio is not the place to find new music like it used to be.

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SomewhereLive5921@reddit

I’m in Philly too. I mostly find new artists and music through WXPN

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Ok_Breakfast5425@reddit

We had a great station that broadcast out of a nearby college town in the 90s, they'd play alt, grunge, punk, and a tiny bit of metal. They'd play new, obscure, and local stuff all the time, not just the stuff trending at the time. It was a sad day when they got bought out and the new owners flipped them to top 40 totally unannounced.

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Hetjr@reddit

My favorite stations have always been college stations. SUNY up in NY and Setan Hall’s Pirate Radio was all metal and hard rock.

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SkarlyComics@reddit

Some of us have wrapped back around to vinyl.

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Pharmacy_Duck@reddit

And the TV/movie equivalent: VHS to DVD to Blu-ray. There's one Doctor Who story I've bought 6 times on various formats.

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Mysterious-Kick9881@reddit

And we had to go buy all of our vinyl a 2nd time.

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footprints64@reddit

Truth

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SalukiKnightX@reddit

I mean it’s more grow up on my parents’ record and tape collections, then find duplicates for them on CD only to find it’s easier ripping them from mp3 and streaming only to find it’s tonally better on vinyl and tape.

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Esternaefil@reddit

Ehhhhh. I've been a Napster kid all the way to torrents and websites like cobalt.

I never had many records though my family did, and I loved the move to cd's because I could rip them onto my computer.

And a subscription? I've never paid a subscription for music in my life.

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keetojm@reddit

Forgot about 8 tracks

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ConciseLocket@reddit

Never stopped buying CDs.

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UnusualFunction7567@reddit

What about 8-tracks?

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ihateyourmustache@reddit

Get out of here boomer!

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UnusualFunction7567@reddit

But I’m 41..😢

My mom just had an old car when I was a kid and still had an 8 track player. It was state of the art when it was built!

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ka-olelo@reddit

I never stopped buying records. My tape collection did happen because I loved recording radio shows and my car needed tunes. But now they got expensive again which does suck

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FriendlyNative66@reddit

Hold on, let me dust off my 8-track player, I'll show em some smoove grooves.

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BrainFartTheFirst@reddit

I have given up my iPod. All my mp3s are on my phone.

It holds more than my iPod did.

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Kalfu73@reddit

The replacements did suck. But now for the price of one CD a month I can now listen to millions of CDs worth of music. That's a win for me.

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Tiny-Reading5982@reddit

I'm going to be sad when my ipod touch dies because I have songs on there that arent streaming or on cd 😭

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Consistent-Web-351@reddit

This has become ultimately worse than just breaking the cds or cassette lol

I remember when I bought the Foo Fighters CD and couldn't rip the cd because of DRM.

Anyone remembering burning a CD for their morning work out and ending up with an entire spool of CDs which are basically just playlists on Spotify now?

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AnonymousCoupleFun@reddit

No they didn’t.

They never had to. Records have always sounded better. Tapes would have been for the car. Then CDs for the car. Then digital for the car, but records have always been available, always sounded the best, and have always been for at home listening.

GenX is mad that they couldn’t figure out the difference between music for the house and music for the road.

That’s a skill issue not a generational trauma

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dirtycrabcakes@reddit

This is why the market should cater to artists rather than consumers - keep making things easier and more convenient for them, and they still complain. Meanwhile artists keep getting less and less. Screw this "consumer-first" mentality!

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WiscoBrewDude@reddit

I still listen to my cds.

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Ok-Payment5950@reddit

I was so pissed that they never invented a record player for the car!!

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Kiloburn@reddit

Is that Ryan George?

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SourcePrevious3095@reddit

Records are back, he has to buy his collection again.

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FeebisBJoinkle@reddit

WHAT!? That's a weird thing to hold on to, to be pissed about.

I replaced my CD collection with MP3/FLAC in the late 90's when I learned the was free software to rip your CD collection to your PC. I still have some older hard to find files that have origination dates from the 1990s.

Also I pay for a streaming service, use a free piece of software that let's me rip said music from streaming service and continue to grow the collection.

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DeathLikeAHammer@reddit

It's not like we threw out the record and cassette player, we still have binders full of cds, boxes of random 8-tracks.

We're mad motherfuckers over inflated the cost to buy shit to play them again.

Case in point, I could get a typewriter for like 20 bucks, now it's 100+. Fuckin' hipsters.

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TawnyTeaTowel@reddit

We taped our records and ripped CDs to MP3… ain’t no one buying the same stuff 4 times…

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Hetjr@reddit

Once again i shall say that i WISH all vinyl came with free downloads because i would buy exclusively vinyl! I mean… i still buy a lot of vinyl lol

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scizzix@reddit

Forgot the "and now they need to re-buy their record collection" at the end.

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Jolly_Law_7973@reddit

Only a problem if you got rid of your old media.

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Amnion_@reddit

Pretty accurate! My bro is a Gen X’er who was into records. My collection started with tapes!

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DINGERSandBEER@reddit

All I hear is complaining. I keep a USB stick with music in the car and it holds more than my 6 CD changer ever could. And I never got rid of my music collection.

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82ndGameHead@reddit

I still have my iPod Nano and reference it when trying to find tracks on Spotify.

And there are STILL several tracks Spotify don't have!

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Molten_Plastic82@reddit

And we all cycled back to records in the end

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Big_Surround3395@reddit

Pshh, fuck that. Im mad that i cant get a physical copy.

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SendMeAnother1@reddit

Conversation with my dad: "I want a CD player for Christmas" "But you don't have any CDs"

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ahawk99@reddit

gif

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Feral_Sheep_@reddit

Don't get us started on movies.

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Northern0577@reddit

Not to forget Mini-Disc...

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everythingbeeps@reddit

I still listen to my mp3s. Got an mp3 player and all my music is on an ssd. I have no interest in streaming music.

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Ippus_21@reddit

Hardly disagree with the meme, but...

Dude in that pic looks about 30, max. Gen X, my hind end. If he was born before 1990 I'll eat... well, I'll shut up and go eat my lunch in peace. I'm too old to make stupid bets, lol.

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Throwaway_inSC_79@reddit

And now vinyl is outselling CDs. Not that that’s a flex, it’s more how little CDs are actually selling.

I don’t even have a CD player. I do have a record player.

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