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I think there is something to be said for an album’s native format, eg vinyl for Dark Side of the Moon, cassette for Metallica, CD for Britney Spears. To some e

I think there is something to be said for an album’s native format, eg vinyl for Dark Side of the Moon, cassette for Metallica, CD for Britney Spears. To some extent the artist/production was optimized for the medium. Unrelatedly, I switched to collecting tapes because a) collecting is still fun and b) tapes are a lot cheaper than vinyl these days.

WalterBright 3y ago
When I record a vinyl album, I'll often leave in the needle drop and pickup noises.
- OccamsMirror 3y ago
  How often do you record from vinyl to another medium?
  - lb1lf 3y ago
    Not the OP, but if your taste in music (at least partially) flies under the radar of the streaming sites, you'll find yourself doing it on a regular basis. Doubly so if whatever music tickles your fancy was released a few decades ago. I've lots of albums at home which simply aren't released in the digital domain. Both classical and bossa nova, for the most part, but also the occasional pop/rock album. Many of those I've recorded to FLAC so that I can listen to them when anywhere but in front of my turntable.
  - WalterBright 3y ago
    I have a lot of vinyl that was never released on CD. Things like the soundtrack to the Kirk Douglas movie "The Vikings".
10729287 3y ago
Also, it's sometimes difficult or even impossible to listen to the original mix of an album on streaming websites, if there's a remaster available.
- AlecSchueler 3y ago
  This annoys me so much! Some artists like The Beatles who have so many different mixes I just have to resort to using YouTube instead of Spotify. I wanted to listen to Please Please Me last week but Spotify gave me some horrible stereo remix that didn't even sound like the same music. I knew there were already two or remasters issued in mono, one from the 80 and two from the 00s, so figured I'd just append "mono" to my search and they'd all come up. Nope, just the most recent stereo remaster optimized for playback on phone speakers. Went to YouTube and I had the choice of every mix that had been published as well as a rip of the original vinyl pressing and a compilation of the outtakes. They're all published by the same company too and have the same rights holders so I don't understand why they choose to hide so much of their work.
  - 10729287 3y ago
    ... Because Spotify is an app to consume music, not to listen to it. They don't want to disturb the casual user who just want to listen to "that tune from the beatles". FLAC and Ripping groups/individuals is where you have to go if you care about mixes or little differences from a medium to another. It's such a joy to dig into an artist and find perfectly crafted rips of early 80s Japanese CDs of Michael Jackson and compare it with the vinyl releases, for example. I feel your pain, and it's partly why I'm more and more moving from those platforms. It was very useful at first but useful is not how we want to deal with our music.
    - AlecSchueler 3y ago
      I guess I just thought of it as an alternative to buying the CDs and that the same variety wouls be available. Back in the day I could go into my local CD shop and choose between the 2009 mono or stereo reissue. Now I have the 2022 stereo mix and nothing else. The album was produced with mono in mind so it seems perverse that it's not available that way. I guess in a few years from now we'll only be able to get the AI enhanced versions that correct the guitar tuning to concert pitch or whatever. I know I could go to "ripping groups" and everything but Spotify came with the promise of getting the catalogues I wanted with minimal work on my part, in exchange for a monetary payment.

WalterBright 3y ago

When I record a vinyl album, I'll often leave in the needle drop and pickup noises.

OccamsMirror 3y ago
How often do you record from vinyl to another medium?
- lb1lf 3y ago
  Not the OP, but if your taste in music (at least partially) flies under the radar of the streaming sites, you'll find yourself doing it on a regular basis. Doubly so if whatever music tickles your fancy was released a few decades ago. I've lots of albums at home which simply aren't released in the digital domain. Both classical and bossa nova, for the most part, but also the occasional pop/rock album. Many of those I've recorded to FLAC so that I can listen to them when anywhere but in front of my turntable.
- WalterBright 3y ago
  I have a lot of vinyl that was never released on CD. Things like the soundtrack to the Kirk Douglas movie "The Vikings".

10729287 3y ago

Also, it's sometimes difficult or even impossible to listen to the original mix of an album on streaming websites, if there's a remaster available.

AlecSchueler 3y ago
This annoys me so much! Some artists like The Beatles who have so many different mixes I just have to resort to using YouTube instead of Spotify. I wanted to listen to Please Please Me last week but Spotify gave me some horrible stereo remix that didn't even sound like the same music. I knew there were already two or remasters issued in mono, one from the 80 and two from the 00s, so figured I'd just append "mono" to my search and they'd all come up. Nope, just the most recent stereo remaster optimized for playback on phone speakers. Went to YouTube and I had the choice of every mix that had been published as well as a rip of the original vinyl pressing and a compilation of the outtakes. They're all published by the same company too and have the same rights holders so I don't understand why they choose to hide so much of their work.
- 10729287 3y ago
  ... Because Spotify is an app to consume music, not to listen to it. They don't want to disturb the casual user who just want to listen to "that tune from the beatles". FLAC and Ripping groups/individuals is where you have to go if you care about mixes or little differences from a medium to another. It's such a joy to dig into an artist and find perfectly crafted rips of early 80s Japanese CDs of Michael Jackson and compare it with the vinyl releases, for example. I feel your pain, and it's partly why I'm more and more moving from those platforms. It was very useful at first but useful is not how we want to deal with our music.
  - AlecSchueler 3y ago
    I guess I just thought of it as an alternative to buying the CDs and that the same variety wouls be available. Back in the day I could go into my local CD shop and choose between the 2009 mono or stereo reissue. Now I have the 2022 stereo mix and nothing else. The album was produced with mono in mind so it seems perverse that it's not available that way. I guess in a few years from now we'll only be able to get the AI enhanced versions that correct the guitar tuning to concert pitch or whatever. I know I could go to "ripping groups" and everything but Spotify came with the promise of getting the catalogues I wanted with minimal work on my part, in exchange for a monetary payment.