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you forgot to mention the time it takes hunting for your 'obscure teenage years' CDs on eBay, setting up search alerts for each CD to appear for ~$1 with cheap
by 867-5309 6y ago
you forgot to mention the time it takes hunting for your 'obscure teenage years' CDs on eBay, setting up search alerts for each CD to appear for ~$1 with cheap shipping, waiting three weeks for them to arrive from Lithuania, alcohol-rubbing the dozen sale stickers off the jewel case, cleaning the CDs with lint-free holy water, ripping the audio losslessly at superfast 52x, physically scanning with a scanner and optimizing the album artwork, categorizing, metadata'ing, updating and maintaining your Frankenstein music database, updating the online database for prospective fake internet points, and relisting each CD at $2
- arpa 6y agoIt is can be a very fun hobby, though.
- endbringer93 6y agoOr you can just torrent them. Chances are that those "obscure teenage year" CDs aren't and never will be on spotify either so if you want them you'll have to go through all that in addition to paying a service with incomplete library and crappy player.
- 867-5309 6y agoobscure as in cannot be found online torrents of such material are non-existent, dead or unreliable at best, and almost never lossless the point being to avoid being constantly let down by audio streaming providers but safe to say the point was missed on this occasion
- pedrogpimenta 6y agoYes but if you can't find it online, then it's also not on Spotify. So you still have to do that. It's not an option so we don't get the point you're making.
- 867-5309 6y agoyou stated the point - you would have to do all that because it's not on <music streaming service>
- 0ld 6y agowhy would i do any of that? it’s usually downloading, fixing the tags (if needed), moving it to its subdir in the music directory. that’s all
- 867-5309 6y agotry adjusting your obscurity filter