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So you are really just buying the cover art.

xeromal 5y ago
There's something about using Vinyl that's unique among the physical media. I abandoned all physical media early on, I'm thinking like early early 2000s, but the past few years I've been collecting Vinyls. I find it soothing to throw on a record and eat dinner or put together some legos. I can't explain it and I don't think its better in any way other than the comfort it provides me. lol
KMnO4 5y ago
I read all my books on an ereader but still buy my favourites in dead-tree format for my shelf.
rrradical 5y ago
A friend explained to me recently- if someone comes over to your house, and you want to listen to music, it’s hard to know everyone will enjoy it. If you pick something off spotify, they might not like that kind of music, or vice versa. But if you have a record collection, they can browse and pick something they know you already enjoy, because you own it.
- vyrotek 5y ago
  Idea: A shelf full of just album covers with an RFID sticker inside. Someone picks the one they like and just lays it on top of a nearby table which has a sensor and begins to play the music from Spotify.
  - yariik 5y ago
    Sounds autistic.
  - orestis 5y ago
    I did this five years ago: https://www.edmstudio.com/news/faux-vinyl-experience-spotify-nfc-tags/ https://www.edmstudio.com/news/faux-vinyl-experience-spotify...
    - Symbiote 5y ago
      This is a great idea! If I implement it, I'll probably take the Linux route and use MPD/MPC on my desktop. Or maybe control Clementine through QDBus (since I use this media player on KDE anyway). Note the video is no longer working.
      - orestis 5y ago
        The video was playing music and Vimeo took it down due to copyright infringement :( If I was to do this again I’d do away with the Mac mini and use a raspberry pi plus a Spotify daemon. I still have all the cards I made but no time to figure out the physical stuff anymore.
  - dendriti 5y ago
    There are already several implementations of this great idea.
  - dTal 5y ago
    The "from Spotify" part makes this dystopian. Have the music be local. Here's a refinement of that idea for vinyl nuts: blank rfid-enabled vinyls that you must physically lower the needle into, which triggers a hard disk recorder to play its saved FLACs. How's that for a "tactile experience"? (I suspect that a true vinyl nut would hate this idea but not be able to articulate why)
- Consultant32452 5y ago
  When I host parties I leave an iPad out and let people buy any song they want to play on my dime. People seem to enjoy it and there's lots of different/interesting stuff in my collection now.

There's something about using Vinyl that's unique among the physical media. I abandoned all physical media early on, I'm thinking like early early 2000s, but the past few years I've been collecting Vinyls. I find it soothing to throw on a record and eat dinner or put together some legos. I can't explain it and I don't think its better in any way other than the comfort it provides me. lol

KMnO4 5y ago

I read all my books on an ereader but still buy my favourites in dead-tree format for my shelf.

rrradical 5y ago

A friend explained to me recently- if someone comes over to your house, and you want to listen to music, it’s hard to know everyone will enjoy it. If you pick something off spotify, they might not like that kind of music, or vice versa. But if you have a record collection, they can browse and pick something they know you already enjoy, because you own it.

vyrotek 5y ago
Idea: A shelf full of just album covers with an RFID sticker inside. Someone picks the one they like and just lays it on top of a nearby table which has a sensor and begins to play the music from Spotify.
- yariik 5y ago
  Sounds autistic.
- orestis 5y ago
  I did this five years ago: https://www.edmstudio.com/news/faux-vinyl-experience-spotify-nfc-tags/ https://www.edmstudio.com/news/faux-vinyl-experience-spotify...
  - Symbiote 5y ago
    This is a great idea! If I implement it, I'll probably take the Linux route and use MPD/MPC on my desktop. Or maybe control Clementine through QDBus (since I use this media player on KDE anyway). Note the video is no longer working.
    - orestis 5y ago
      The video was playing music and Vimeo took it down due to copyright infringement :( If I was to do this again I’d do away with the Mac mini and use a raspberry pi plus a Spotify daemon. I still have all the cards I made but no time to figure out the physical stuff anymore.
- dendriti 5y ago
  There are already several implementations of this great idea.
- dTal 5y ago
  The "from Spotify" part makes this dystopian. Have the music be local. Here's a refinement of that idea for vinyl nuts: blank rfid-enabled vinyls that you must physically lower the needle into, which triggers a hard disk recorder to play its saved FLACs. How's that for a "tactile experience"? (I suspect that a true vinyl nut would hate this idea but not be able to articulate why)
Consultant32452 5y ago
When I host parties I leave an iPad out and let people buy any song they want to play on my dime. People seem to enjoy it and there's lots of different/interesting stuff in my collection now.