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Yes. But shhhhh about cds, don’t want people to realise… Also the price of decent (Sony hifi grade, not ES) CD players used is great too.
by te_chris 9mo ago
Yes. But shhhhh about cds, don’t want people to realise…
Also the price of decent (Sony hifi grade, not ES) CD players used is great too.
- WD-42 9mo agoI did just realize after posting maybe touting how affordable CDs have become is maybe not the best idea.
- conartist6 9mo ago:'D
- eterm 9mo agoI can't remember the artist but there's a fun song about how they used to pick up second hand LPs really cheap and then they got popular and too expensive, then discovered second hand CDs are really cheap now. Frank turner-ish vibes but I don't think it was actually him. It's completely un-googlable though, and even the LLMs aren't much help on this one.
- nluken 9mo agoOh! I know this one! You're thinking of Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage's LPs from 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3urXygZXb74 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3urXygZXb74'
- eterm 9mo agoNice one, thanks!
- richrichardsson 9mo agoHumans prove to have some value in the LLM age after all! /s
- te_chris 9mo agoLove it. Not often you get music threads like this on HN!
- RIMR 9mo agoThe people who really want to stop paying for streaming are going to turn to piracy, don't worry. Physical media will still be accessible for people who are willing to pay with space instead of money.
- KK7NIL 9mo ago"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" - Gabe Newell
- patates 9mo agoAren't CD players just reading digits? I'm not anywhere close to a hifi expert but it must be all about the DAC, no? Or do you mean the ones with a built-in DAC?
- JohnFen 9mo ago> all about the DAC, no? Yes, it is (unless the CD player is so bad that it can't do adequate error correction). What I do is rip the CD to my music server, which is where I listen to the music from. Then the quality of the CD player isn't important, as long as it works correctly.
- blibble 9mo agoit's surprising difficult to rip from audio CDs in a error free manner most tools do it badly and just accept what the drive gives them in default mode, often with glitches
- TheDong 9mo agoJust use a tool that supports the AccurateRip database or similar, and check your checksums, right? Like, ripping seems easy to me, you rip with something that supports a checksum database, and if it comes out with a correct checksum then it's right.
- hcs 9mo agoIf you don't have a good drive and a clean disc you may get skipping/jitter and thus possibly never get a AR or CueTools DB match. (CTDB has parity records that can be used to repair some small errors.) This is the point of the elaborate re-read stuff Exact Audio Copy or cdparanoia does. Though even with a good drive you ought to be using a tool that checks for C2 errors, and that won't necessarily catch everything; error correction and detection is always probabilistic. Also not everything is in AR/CTDB. Maybe 3% of the 1000+ CDs I've ripped had no records yet, though I do tend towards the obscure. I rip these again with EAC, which is set up to automatically do CTDB submission. (Usually I'm using the redumper tool which has some specialized features.) Without external verification it's best to dump it twice and ensure they're bit equal, preferably with a different drive to minimize error correlation.
- mlrtime 9mo ago>(Sony hifi grade, not ES) I don't understand this, are you saying higher than ES or lower than ES? I thought ES was their top "Elevated" Standard?