People going back to physical media instead of learning to pirate is so weird to me
These don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
i can, sort of, understand vinyl hogs, at least it’s a big spinny boy with a smell and visuals, forcing you to engage with full album, and cover art is neat on big print. cd just suck, spins too fast, laser is hidden, track skip is there, literally no different from legally acquired library on hard drive.
It’s different from library on hard drive in that seek is slower and it skips if you bump it. I remember listening to music on CDs, they sucked.
i remember portable cd players having g-shock race - we can take 120g impact, oooh we can do 200g - good times. always looked goofy as shit as well.
portable mp3 players were a gift to me to learn about piracy, compression, transcoding :meow-pirate-shining:
I had a Sansa Fuze, that thing was great. Actually, I still have it but the battery is shot and all the soft touch rubberized plastic has gone sticky.
I like the consistency of ripping it myself. After which the CD goes back into the case to be never touched again.
We have a local community radio station that uses volunteer DJs who play whatever they want. You never know what’s going to be up when you tune in. And I love it. So much I’ve never heard before! I donate every year to keep them going. (And it’s ad-free!)
It’s like… how many Pink Floyd songs do you know? Three? Everyone plays the same stuff over and over and over because that’s the safe way to get ad listens.
for like a decade i lived in a small city with a big university and it had an old school “college radio” station that was just whatever the fuck whoever was on shift wanted to play. no station ID, no commercials. most people in range were listening to their own streaming shit, so it was like nobody cared.
i found some great shit by tuning in all the time. somebody there during summer afternoons was a big shoegaze dork in like '08-'09, at the same time as me.
How are CDs less predictable than an algorithm? even a random shuffle can only select from the CDs you’ve loaded into whatever player, while an algorithm may be predictable to a degree they have a much larger set to work from, the entire catalog of spotify/youtube or whatever and with new stuff being added to them all the time you’ll eventually get something you haven’t heard before
Does that mean CDs will be a reasonable price? Or will they be a euro per minute of material?
I certainly hope they will be reasonably-priced. If not, there’s always used CDs for cheaper. Or if you go to a thrift store, you can get them for $1 each. You just have to wade through a ton of material that’s not even worth that. :)
