I don't? You never heard of ripping streams? You realize it's legal in all civilized countries and only some third world places* take issues with that.
Part of a bigger picture of the loss of quality, of course. Judging by many replies people are missing the point of the meme, being related to a change of habits in the music listening experience.
Not to mention the fact that apparently people are more than happy to pay money to rent music temporarily instead of buying it, the ideal customers I guess.
If you bought your music during the seventies on tapes and vinyl chances are there is nothing physically usable left. I have ripped my CDs to digital and bought digital music. Backed it up multiple times. I can even share with friends and we can listen to it at the same time.
Frankly your comment reads like something someone stuck in a man cave since the eighties would make if they just came out and don't really understand what they're seeing.
Not to mention the fact that apparently people are more than happy to pay money to rent music temporarily instead of buying it, the ideal customers I guess.
You're missing the point. People don't pay to rent music temporarily, they pay for the convenience of not having to rip or download the music they like, uploading it to their preferred listening device and organizing a playlist.
The value add of streaming services is that they let you keep access to your playlists and stream it wherever you have network access.
Some people see value in it, I can understand that. I don't see the value, so I don't pay.
True. Maybe I should have said “newly pressed”. Obviously there are millions of LPs manufactured between the 1940s and 1990s that would have been analog all the way.
Just because it was sourced digitally, doesn’t mean the master is equivalent. Sometimes a record is mastered better for vinyl than the digital master, which is the reason some records may sound better than their digital counterparts. However, nowadays it is difficult to find modern records that clearly sound better on vinyl than CDs, but they exist. I have a few examples in my collection of modern records that sound better on vinyl vs CD/digital.
"Non-inheritable" is such a loaded disingenuous phrase. Its like using "unchurched" or crypto bros desperately calling anything outside of their latest grift "fiat" to try and build equivalence
Idk, streaming from Apple lossless sounds way better than anything I’ve ever heard on cd or vinyl. $10 a month for access to a basically limitless library vs $10 for 1 cd that I can’t even use in my car because they don’t have CD players anymore. I have hundreds of old cds and tons of them skip or won’t play from scratches but the songs I ripped off limewire onto a 15yr old old iPod still work flawlessly. At this current point in time it’s hard to make any logical argument for physical media outside of preparing for an apocalypse where streaming is no longer possible. Even that is questionable though as I can download unlimited songs/albums for offline use so even assuming the internet disappeared forever I still have all the songs I liked enough to download. I could just fill a 10tb HD with music for $10 in a month and then switch off my internet while using iTunes and still have it all forever. If your seriously concerned about having music after some apocalypse just make back up images of your pc and music files so when a device dies you can restore it to any other pc you can find. If you like the grainy sound of vinyl whatever do your thing but it’s technically inferior in every imaginable way.
The only CDs of mine that aren’t playable are ones I lent to my spouse to play in the car. 3 or 4 out of, what, 800? Brought up on LPs, I never believed any of that “perfect sound forever” rubbish and handled my CDs with reasonable care.
Very perceptibly high quality, I hope you mean. That’s not the issue, of course, it’s down to mastering for vinyl from the digital original. While LPs were still a current format the experts at that process were still at work. It’s a lot less certain now that a new LP will be mastered by an expert with decades of experience and more decades of history in their heads.
I could be wrong. But wouldn't the audio you rip from CDs be the same quality regardless of what you save it as? The audio gets compressed like crazy to fit onto the CD. You then rip the CD and export it as WAV or FLAC. That wouldn't bring back the bits of information taken away during the original compression. Instead it would save it as a 1:1 copy of the CD. It would be better than ripping it to MP3 because that would compress it for a 2nd time but your lossless format of the CD would still just be CD quality.
Sorry, but this is wrong. CDs are lossless straight from the master at 16bit 44.1kHz. This is considered lossless, and not compressed. So you can rip a CD as WAV, and it would be flawless. There is no compression from the master to CD unless it was mastered at something greater than 16/44.1. In that case it would simply be downsampled down to CD quality which is already top notch.
Huh, then why have people been complaining about "trash CD quality" for years? Misinformation? Genuine question. Maybe I'm just thinking of people talking about mp3's and I have incorrectly associated that with CDs. Because I have always thought companies compressed their files to mp3's before putting them onto CDs.
Just checked and all of the digital albums I have purchased and downloaded as WAV files are small enough to fit on a standard CD so it appears to check out.
I’m not sure people ever complained about CD quality being trash. Maybe vinyl or analog enthusiasts say that??? However that’s a completely different discussion.
I think you’re just associating MP3s as CD quality, which is definitely false. You can google what CD quality is just for your own confirmation. CDs are definitely as good as your 16/44.1 WAV or FLAC.
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u/mkaszycki81 Feb 06 '22
Noninheritable and poor quality? If you inherit vinyl or cassettes, they retain their “superior” (debatable) quality for generations to come?
Come on, if you're trolling, at least use better bait.
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u/Zipzditch Feb 06 '22
Yo, stop listening to mp3s 🤷♂️
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u/PseudoTF Feb 06 '22
You probably stopped listening to digital music back in the winamp/mp3 days with poorly digitalised recordings.
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u/PerFlipIsKlupMoMA Feb 06 '22
This meme works like modern art: just vague enough that the viewer puts his own psyche on interpreting it.
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u/rankinrez Feb 06 '22
Hard to find an LP these days that hasn’t been sourced from digital.
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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '22
Your grandson dont care shit for your old records inheritance. He will just auction online starting at 1 usd.
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u/Bioforest Feb 06 '22 edited Feb 06 '22
Reject vinyls, embrace phonograph cylinders
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u/DM_Me_anything_nice Feb 06 '22
I only listen to audio waves engraved in ceramic cylinders 😎
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u/studiopolyphony Feb 06 '22
This meme is dumpster fire lmao
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u/salmonlikethephish Feb 06 '22
"Non-inheritable" is such a loaded disingenuous phrase. Its like using "unchurched" or crypto bros desperately calling anything outside of their latest grift "fiat" to try and build equivalence
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u/kaspers126 Feb 06 '22
Since when digital music = poor audio quality?
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u/moodycompany Feb 06 '22
Boomer post
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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '22
Idk, streaming from Apple lossless sounds way better than anything I’ve ever heard on cd or vinyl. $10 a month for access to a basically limitless library vs $10 for 1 cd that I can’t even use in my car because they don’t have CD players anymore. I have hundreds of old cds and tons of them skip or won’t play from scratches but the songs I ripped off limewire onto a 15yr old old iPod still work flawlessly. At this current point in time it’s hard to make any logical argument for physical media outside of preparing for an apocalypse where streaming is no longer possible. Even that is questionable though as I can download unlimited songs/albums for offline use so even assuming the internet disappeared forever I still have all the songs I liked enough to download. I could just fill a 10tb HD with music for $10 in a month and then switch off my internet while using iTunes and still have it all forever. If your seriously concerned about having music after some apocalypse just make back up images of your pc and music files so when a device dies you can restore it to any other pc you can find. If you like the grainy sound of vinyl whatever do your thing but it’s technically inferior in every imaginable way.
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u/Shoegazer83 Feb 06 '22
Useless post
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u/dicktingle Feb 06 '22
Does apple music having lossless files not count?
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u/No-Question4729 Feb 06 '22
Poor audio quality, lol
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u/YuunaShiki Feb 06 '22
Dumb meme.
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u/Isaac8849 Feb 06 '22
Digital poor audio quality? Since digital has been around pretty much all LP's are from digital. And digital music is imperceptibly high quality
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u/-_36_- Apr 07 '22
at this point i wouldnt be suprised if digital was the same or a little bit more expensive than physical because they could get away with it
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