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If you had to start today, would start collecting CDs or Vinyls? (slrpnk.net)
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[–] 7 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

Vinyl, without a doubt. Because it's analog.

CD's are lossless 16-bit/44.1 kHz PCM digital audio. You can already get that in file form. Why would you want digital audio that's stored on media that degrades? It doesn't sound any different than the digital file...it's quite literally (not figuratively literally but literally literally) the exact same data.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    There's actually quite a bit of music published on CDs that is not available on any digital platform. If it's not somewhat popular no one buys a license to distribute it. There's recordings you can only find browsing the CD racks at physical stores.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's easy to buy and sell CDs second hand.

    With most digital media these days you don't buy the actual media. You buy a lifetime license. For your life or the life of the host platform. Whichever is shorter.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    That was always my argument back in the day.

    Technically when you bought any music wether it be 8-track, LP, cassette, or CD, you were purchasing a single-user license for the music and the media was just how the record companies delivered it to you. That's why Napster and all the piracy that followed it was/is illegal, because you don't own a license when you copy the digital file.

    HOWEVER... Over the many decades I've been alive I've scratched, twisted, demagnetized, or just plain old lost hundreds of LPs, cassettes, and CDs. Do you think if I requested a new copy of the music that the record companies would send me a replacement?

    No, they would not. So I obtained digital replacements by...other means.

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