There Is No CD Revival
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There Is No CD Revival
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#2Many times, buying the CD and ripping it to FLAC* is the only way to legally acquire* music for use with your computer.
* It must be lossless and high quality.
* It must work offline.
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#3Many times, buying the CD and ripping it to FLAC* is the only way to legally acquire* music for use with your computer. * It must be lossless and high quality. * It must work offline.
That used to be true, but these days there are many sites selling legal FLAC downloads, like HDtracks, Qobuz, Bandcamp, and Bleep.
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#4Many times, buying the CD and ripping it to FLAC* is the only way to legally acquire* music for use with your computer. * It must be lossless and high quality. * It must work offline.
Qobuz allows you to download High Fidelity music without any DRM
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#5Many times, buying the CD and ripping it to FLAC* is the only way to legally acquire* music for use with your computer. * It must be lossless and high quality. * It must work offline.
That used to be true, but these days there are many sites selling legal FLAC downloads, like HDtracks, Qobuz, Bandcamp, and Bleep.
While that's true, those don't come close too having the range of music I'd like to own.
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#6Many times, buying the CD and ripping it to FLAC* is the only way to legally acquire* music for use with your computer. * It must be lossless and high quality. * It must work offline.
Apple Music and iTunes are lossless, high quality (often higher than a CD as they have multi-channel masters) and work offline, for example.
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#7Many times, buying the CD and ripping it to FLAC* is the only way to legally acquire* music for use with your computer. * It must be lossless and high quality. * It must work offline.
Qobuz allows you to download High Fidelity music without any DRM
Yeah, there are lots of places selling DRM free, lossless music. However, between the lot of them they fall far short of comprehensive coverage and I frequently have to buy and rip CDs to get the music I want.
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#8If I'm buying physical media in 2022 that I actually need to find from a shelf and put into a player it either needs to be of higher quality than the digital option or have something else going for it.
Thus, it's LP's for music in my case. The cover art alone is worth it.
For movies and TV, I have the cream of the crop on physical Bluray or DVD, the ones that I want to see even if there is a license pissing contest between streaming services and rights holders going on.
The rest I just either stream or buy digitally. 3.99€ for a digital movie is worth it for me so I don't have to drive to my storage unit and dig through 20 boxes of old DVDs to find my copy of Stardust to show my kids =)
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#9OP pointing out the author is Damon Krukowski of Galaxie 500, Magic Hour, and Damon and Naomi.
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#10Many times, buying the CD and ripping it to FLAC* is the only way to legally acquire* music for use with your computer. * It must be lossless and high quality. * It must work offline.
That used to be true, but these days there are many sites selling legal FLAC downloads, like HDtracks, Qobuz, Bandcamp, and Bleep.
Only having experience with HDtracks, they don't really have much. Sure they have the most popular stuff for the most part but I often find that albums are missing for an artist or entire artists are missing. Not sure if it is a geographic restriction or if its like that everywhere.