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There are no ads, I believe none of my privacy is violated and there are definitely "no algorithms" assuming the author talks about curation.
I buy CDs occasionally and rip them, but it's 2019, there's no real need to amass a CD collection (unless you want to). For most of my needs, spotify works out. I don't mind paying $10/mo since I use the offline listening so much. I only buy and rip CDs for my own collection if I -really- like that album or a song on it, and a web download isn't available. Occasionally spotify doesn't have a very specific version of…
I think CDs are still a very good option when you think about how you intend to maintain your digital collection in the next 30 years. CDs I bought in the early 90s are there, in a box. I'd like to see people's iTunes collections in 30 years... Yes, I know that CDs have a shelf-life and that real long term storage would involve backing them up. But CDs still seem a better option than the current alternatives. Edit: T…
MDISC are supposed to last for 100 years or so.
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> Try some jazz like Coltrane or Miles Davis. It seems they never stoped issuing albums - remastered This is only done to prevent copyright expiration and having the album become public domain. You’ll see they only do it for “oldish” albums. It’s quite a scam.
I thought copyright had been extended long enough that they don't need to do that? For example you don't see the same thing quite so much with other genres of music and music of the same age in those scenes haven't fallen into the public domain. (this is a question rather than statement)
The remaster acts as a new, “derivative” work and thus gets whatever new copyright protection is offered by newer laws.
What bugs me is that quite a lot of things are not available. I ripped my entire CD collection and uploaded into Google Music (not sure if that feature still exists). I have all this music available but I can not find it on other peoples google music. So if I share a song, they get an error. Most of this music is nothing special and quite mainstream but if I search on other peoples devices I can not find the songs on…
Man, I lost my precious childhood videos after "saving" on the cloud. Google deleted it because of some seconds of the background music of AC/DC's on the radio.
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> I have a high-end gaming PC Is gaming a thing on Linux now? I was given to thinking that if you're into PC gaming you're really stuck with Windows ...
It obviously depends on what you're playing exactly, but many titles (from indie to AAA) run great on Linux, either natively or through Proton (Steam's integrated Wine distribution with DX11/12 support). Never used the Epic Store or Origin though, so cannot speak to that.
I buy CDs occasionally and rip them, but it's 2019, there's no real need to amass a CD collection (unless you want to). For most of my needs, spotify works out. I don't mind paying $10/mo since I use the offline listening so much. I only buy and rip CDs for my own collection if I -really- like that album or a song on it, and a web download isn't available. Occasionally spotify doesn't have a very specific version of…
I think CDs are still a very good option when you think about how you intend to maintain your digital collection in the next 30 years. CDs I bought in the early 90s are there, in a box. I'd like to see people's iTunes collections in 30 years... Yes, I know that CDs have a shelf-life and that real long term storage would involve backing them up. But CDs still seem a better option than the current alternatives. Edit: T…
What bugs me is that quite a lot of things are not available. I ripped my entire CD collection and uploaded into Google Music (not sure if that feature still exists). I have all this music available but I can not find it on other peoples google music. So if I share a song, they get an error. Most of this music is nothing special and quite mainstream but if I search on other peoples devices I can not find the songs on…
Man, I lost my precious childhood videos after "saving" on the cloud. Google deleted it because of some seconds of the background music of AC/DC's on the radio.
So, is the Loudness War finally over? Or are CDs still clipped to hell?
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Autorunning CDs was the default until windows vista, which is how the u3 usb devices were used for “hacksaw”[0] and “switchblade”[1] attacks. More on u3: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3_(software)?wprov=sfti1 0: https://forums.hak5.org/topic/2843-usb-hacksaw-development/ 1: https://forums.hak5.org/topic/2361-usb-switchblade-developme...
Its quite incredible how long this was working for. Autorun was a dream for malware.
But as usual, one rotten apple spoils the entire barrel.