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I keep anything remotely rare as mp3s. Streaming services are prone to sudden acts of mass extinction such as: api changes, licensing snafus, unprofitability
by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
I keep anything remotely rare as mp3s.
Streaming services are prone to sudden acts of mass extinction such as: api changes, licensing snafus, unprofitability of business model, Yoko Ono being in a huff that day.
My only problem is backups, and storage is pretty cheap, much cheaper than vinyl. On a new build I install foobar2000, copy a few gigs of music to local and I'm good to go.
Call me a dinosaur, but I like own a copy of something. It's a less disposable relationship with the music.
- gorgoiler 6y agoAnd my least favorite: surprise remastering. When you’ve listened to Rumors enough, anything but the original feels deeply uncomfortable.
- jeffbee 6y agoFor real, was just discussing this earlier today. Rumours is a masterpiece and all the later remasters are worse and worse. When you stream it, it's remaster roulette.
- gorgoiler 6y agoHah, apparently I remastered the spelling!
- OscarTheGrinch 6y agoYeah, remasters, no thanks. Bowie apparently hated how Lets Dance (the song) turned out, I had a remastered album where it was replaced with some dire 1990's techno version. And let's not forget probably the most common streaming flaw: internet outages.
- Moru 6y agoOh, and if it's local, search is instant, playback is instant, internet connectivity does not matter, no surprice updates, it just works. My player is Winamp and it still works just fine after all these years. If someone want's to talk to me I just press ctrl+shift+E to pause, don't need to find a window on the computer. Tired of the song playing? Press ctrl+shift+b for next song in whatever program/game I'm in at the moment. (My winamp has quake-controls because that was what I was playing when I found the global hotkey settings.
- WalterBright 6y ago> internet connectivity does not matter I load my tunes on a USB stick and play them in the car. Never worry about connectivity, outages, or data plans. And it remembers where it left off when I turn the key on again. I tried playing my phone through the AUX port, but nobody has yet made a mini audio jack that has a solid connection (always gotta wiggle it or turn it, like a cheap potenciometer).
- Moru 6y agoGet a new cable, can also try headset type cable with converter. Sometimes they're not the right size and then you get connection problems.
- mrtksn 6y agoMusic is tightly coupled with culture and culture is coupled with the tech. When something vanishes, most of the time it is because no one cares about it anymore because everyone moved on to the next thing. Some people remain of course, they get lonelier in this quest and if it happens that they have some artistic abilities they can play part in the re-discovery of the brilliance of the art of that era in the next retro wave. Most of the time though, the people who don't move on simply age and get grumpy claiming that kids these days are horrible and don't understand the value of the thing that they still love.
- dleslie 6y agoMost of the time it's because the license has expired and the licensee doesn't think its worthwhile to renew. That doesn't mean no one cares about it; it means that the licensee doesn't see profit in renewing it. They know that most users will keep their subscription active despite the lost content.
- mrtksn 6y agoWhich is exactly the same as no one cares as it's cultural prime-time passes. There's not much money in serving the stuff that no one wants anymore, thus no profit, which leads to license termination.
- dleslie 6y agoThat's absurd. How it arrives at a point of inaccessibility informs the culture: a book long out of print has a different impact than a banned book.
- mrtksn 6y agoIt's not banned, simply it's out of stock. The same as not being able to find Nirvana CD's because kids moved on listening to Eminem on Winamp by downloading mp3 on eMule. And "It really whips the Llama's ass" means nothing to the kids these days.
- PikachuEXE 6y agoNot just music, games too Which is why I like GOG
- dleslie 6y agoAnd software! It's a drag to open Steam, or other, and find a game has stopped working because it can't auth with non-steam DRM, or a recent update has broken or removed features and the developer has abandoned the product.
- dleslie 6y agoI still buy CDs; my primary sources of new music are Bandcamp and CDs. Books in print or DRM-free ebook; and I buy BluRay and DVD movies, too. I've experienced numerous beloved shows come and go from Netflix, some which I have no idea where to stream. That behaviour is fine for when I'm effectively channel surfing, but when I have a specific experience in mind it's garbage. I don't trust buying DRM-laden content from most retailers because of the stories of accounts being locked or purchases being removed. And then there's that I spend enough time traveling in poor-cellular regions... I swear, DRM'd streaming just simply isn't suitable for _cherished_ experiences.
- dehrmann 6y agoIt's worth noting that as much as we say CDs are "dead," the new Xbox and Playstation can still play CDs and DVDs, and Bluray drives for computers are still being made.
- dleslie 6y agoI bought a USB3 drive bay enclosure just so I could put a BluRay burner into it and use it on any machine with USB3. Super-handy; I can point MakeMKV at a recent purchase and within an hour or two have a bluray rip ready to play wherever I wish.
- WalterBright 6y ago> Yoko Ono being in a huff that day. Yoko Ono's CDs are a guilty pleasure of mine. They're oddly captivating in their awfulness.
- rwmj 6y agoSounds like you'll appreciate Nico's solo career :-)
- ogou 6y agoNico’s solo work spawned a range of goth music from Siouxsie and the Banshees to Sisters of Mercy. Still heard in acts like Chelsea Wolfe and ADULt. No doubt it’s dour and atonal but it was distinctive.
- rwmj 6y agoOh I have a couple of her solo records. No problem from me, but is a bit weird.
- vertis 6y agoI used to keep a lot of movies on a HD, most that I'd ripped myself from legally acquired DVDs. At a certain point I decided to write a list of those movies, shove it in a document on Dropbox and delete the files, freeing up about 2TB. There were only a couple of exceptions. Very very old movies that I thought I might have trouble sourcing again if I ever wanted to watch them. I was carrying those movies around for no particularly good reason. I wasn't likely to watch them again, and if I did there was a pretty good chance that they were already on X streaming service.