What are things to learn and know before getting into vinyl and record players (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I'm coming into this area as a practical and philosophical result of:

me wanting to own my music
CDs are barely being made
2.1. If they are - they're not being shipped to my corner of the world
Torrenting often failed me in terms of variety.

However - I am absolutely ignorant about equipment, maintainance, and know-hows of the audiophile world.

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[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh hey, sorry I just remembered I never replied to this.

If you have a song in mind that you can't find anywhere - which definitely happens sometimes, no matter the artist - then you can always grab a copy to keep locally as long as they have it streaming somewhere eg Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc. The quality will only be whatever the streaming provider offers, but it's usually good enough if it's nowhere else.

So for instance YouTube has heaps of easy to use downloader apps such as Grayjay, yt-dl/yt-dlg on desktop pc. Or if on android there's 'yt-dl kivy' on the IzzyOnDroid repo for F-Droid, or Grayjay, or Gyawun Music.

If you need advice for downloading from specific platforms there are plenty of Lemmy communities that have knowledgeable people like the piracy community on dbzer0. This is their wiki - https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/music/

P. S. its not a bad idea to download streaming files only from a VPN by the way, just in case you get your IP blocked by the service (very rare and usually temporary, but i thought I'd mention).

[-] WhirlpoolBrewer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Man, love all the options 🤣 I assumed there would be one or two, but it seems we have tons of options. Thanks for the great info!

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