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Spotify boycott: Artists leave ‘garbage hole’ platform after CEO invests in AI weapons
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Aside from actually downloading the audio files and stripping any DRM off them? No one will offer truly perpetual access, because that means maintaining infrastructure forever, which simply isn't going to happen.
Understand the argument of perpetuity but thats certainly not what I would ask for. CDs and physical media have a life expectancy too but at least I can make copies of those.
You can always rip cds and records you buy to a nas with a raid setup and an external drive you put in cold storage...media forever then
Yea, Ive got a Jbod sitting around somewhere. Just being pedantic but thats not forever either, there is no physical media that so far will last into infinity. I really thought that was where we would be by now considering how popular VHS, DVD and Vinyl and CDs were.
Forever as in, multiple lifetimes..
Yes, sadly physical media advancements are dead. I always thought it would be fun to see what comes after cd, if the internet hadn't come.
If only we could go back to reel to reels, such a great sounding format that really lasted (have some from 1950 that sound good as new) but the machines take care, and people dont listen to music at home anymore. And making tapes uses a lot of plastic that im not crazy about. But I love them anyway.
Thats wild you still have tapes! Do you have a VAC in your garage too? I kid.
There is a huge fidelity difference between physical media, as much as I have enjoyed mp3 it always sounded off and we know why. Data storage is still an enormous premium, I had hoped the future would reduce the price to access any media due to it not having to be printed, pressed or otherwise transferred physically, but that pipe dream is long gone.
Haha yeah, reel tapes are fun. Not many left now and theyre expensive, but I enjoy it.
If you mean a variac or a vac tube amp, definitely can't afford that ha!
I think it peaked with cd really. Probably the best physical sounding media that normal humans can notice. Tape imo can go beyond digital, but it takes INSANE cost. It will far outperform vinyl too, since there's much less limitations to tape than vinyl.
Some tapes though (like the carpenters or s&g) even though they are 50+ years old, far outperform any other medium I've heard of those same albums. This is likely because the generation loss was far less. And thats only 7.5 ips!! 15 ips, oh man the quality is insane.
To have access to those originals, or just getting to experience remasters that are worth the time to listen to would be worth the cost to store. Its not just the medium of storage though, right. It is about hearing it, fully just as it was intended and we have given a lot of that up as a compromise to abstracting compression.
Yeah exactly. I also have always preferred physical media. I buy files from bands I really like on bandcamp, but its nowhere near the same as actually having a physical copy of the music.
I miss record liners and lyrics and all the pictures. Ill check bandcamp out sometime
Same. I hate how online streaming basically deleted all Metadata from music. People dont understand that often it takes 20 people to make an album, because all the liner notes and credits are gone now. Another learning experience lost.