I was thinking about how I want direct control of my music again and

If control over the way you listen to the music, then particular medium holding the audio data matters not.

I had the same thoughts years ago. I started collecting LPs again as one of the remedies. I also have few tapes and also few empty tapes to record something on them, but I don't over use that medium. It'd be fun if I had Walkman to come back to childhood memories of how I listen to the music while being remote to my home audio systems, but the only remote location I have to listen to anything audio is my car and I have it sorted there differently as well.

Basically two things. LPs stay, they are cool way to listen to the music and perfect reason to receive them as presents for any occasion, easy shot for my friends and family and my collection grows.

Then I came back to the number of CDs I already have and digitalized them all into FLAC. I keep downloading albums for offline use than anything streaming (legal or illegal, doesn't matter technically doesn't matter).

I have them all on my NAS for local audio and share with audio devices remotely via iPhone. I also download what I fancy to have in my car as full albums to the device, basically treating my iPhone as if it was iPod again.

I use VOX on my computer, Winamp on my iPhone and listen to all the albums I have in an old fashioned way, from 1st to last tune as it was designed originally.

I use Elby also to present my audio like if I had Spotify but with private collection and no plan and listen from my TV with another set of audio speakers as alternative to the set in a room where I have my LP, CD, Tape Players + Bluetooth for remote playback.

I try to avoid Spotify and YT for any recommendation driven playback. I rather browse through bestalbumoftheyear.com or similar sites (metacritic too) to figure out what I think I should discover next.

That has cured my random approach to music completely.

-h1

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They aren't? I always thought the songs on a CD were ordered the same
way as they are on the casette and LP versions (though in some cases, I think they ordered the songs differently for each side of the record,

I only heard that when recorded they are much more louder and lose all the audiowave dynamics comparing to the past. I usually normalize against loudness when I rip CDs.

-h1

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In the late 1980s, I for a brief while got back into 8-tracks. Not so much because I thought they were better (by any means!) but because I still my parents' working player, that I could plug into my stereo, and could find the tapes at garage sales, flea markets, etc., for 25-50 cents vs. $12-15 for the CD.

I remember when I finally could afford a lot of albums as a single romantic purchase and entering stores like Amoeba in Hollywood/LA and going nuts..

those were the times...

-h1

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Streaming music is one thing I don't really like to do.. I often listen to music in my car, and there are a lot of areas where there's no signal (especially if I'm on a long road trip), and I wouldn't want my music cutting out. I know some streaming services let you save music locally though, but if it's music I really like, I generally prefer to buy a
copy and have my own that I can play anywhere. I don't directly play
CDs anymore, but I'll rip them to FLAC and MP3. I have the MP3s on my phone, as well as on a USB flash drive that I can play in my car. I also have them on my media server, so I could stream it if I wanted to.. And
I have my CDs in a closet so they aren't making clutter elsewhere.

That's exactly my scenario too (as described in some previous post here).

-h1

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hollowone wrote to n2qfd <=-

Then I came back to the number of CDs I already have and digitalized
them all into FLAC. I keep downloading albums for offline use than anything streaming (legal or illegal, doesn't matter technically
doesn't matter).

My hearing is getting worse, MP3s at 192kbps seems fine. :(

I use VOX on my computer, Winamp on my iPhone and listen to all the
albums I have in an old fashioned way, from 1st to last tune as it was designed originally.

THIS. My kids don't appreciate the flow of listening to an LP the way we
did. LPs were around 40 minutes and bands typically seem to fill CDs
nowadays with 10+ songs, don't think they'd have the same flow as
listening to a Pink Floyd, Marillion, or other album designed for
listening straight through.

My first record listened thusly? Moving Pictures, by Rush. Duke, by
Genesis.


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hollowone wrote to Nightfox <=-

They aren't? I always thought the songs on a CD were ordered the same
way as they are on the casette and LP versions (though in some cases, I think they ordered the songs differently for each side of the record,

I only heard that when recorded they are much more louder and lose all
the audiowave dynamics comparing to the past. I usually normalize
against loudness when I rip CDs.

Most cassettes had some dead tape on one side, usually the end of side 2
- that way you could play the tape and flip it over without having to
fast forward.



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Re: Re: Tapes
By: poindexter FORTRAN to hollowone on Sun Nov 03 2024 08:14 am

My hearing is getting worse, MP3s at 192kbps seems fine. :(

When I started using MP3s in 1997 or 1998, 128kbps was common, and honestly that has always sounded fine to me. But I've since converted my library (ripped from my CDs) to variable bitrate MP3.

My first record listened thusly? Moving Pictures, by Rush.

Good album. :)

Nightfox
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Re: Re: Tapes
By: hollowone to Blue White on Sun Nov 03 2024 08:55 am

In the late 1980s, I for a brief while got back into 8-tracks. Not so
much
because I thought they were better (by any means!) but because I still my
parents' working player, that I could plug into my stereo, and could find
the tapes at garage sales, flea markets, etc., for 25-50 cents vs. $12-15
for the CD.

And a car stereo with 8-track was virtually theft-proof. I was driving a Fiat convertible back then. :)
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