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Wed, 07 May 2025 20:44:29 +0200

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dianea@diasporasocial.net

I'm not mad, just pissed

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Wed, 07 May 2025 21:23:20 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Never had my own records, I copied quite a few of my parents' to tape so I could listen to it on my bike to school. I do have quite a CD collection, and I did rip quite a few of them to MP3/FLAC.

But I refuse to buy a subscription. Hard pass.

Wed, 07 May 2025 21:23:22 +0200

Mark Wollschlager

mark_wollschlager@diaspora.glasswings.com

or buy more vinyl....

Wed, 07 May 2025 21:37:00 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Mark Wollschlager Nah, vinyl gives a much lower quality than CD. The claim "it sounds better" is a matter of taste, not of numbers.

Wed, 07 May 2025 21:57:08 +0200

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dianea@diasporasocial.net

But the popping and scratching from vinyl is unmatched!

Wed, 07 May 2025 22:09:39 +0200

Mark Wollschlager

mark_wollschlager@diaspora.glasswings.com

I was at a book store the other day ( Barnes and Noble, so no an Indie ) and they had a Huge assortment of vinyl, and some cd's. Not a record store ( anymore ) , but also a reversal in stocking over the last 10 years.

Wed, 07 May 2025 22:20:13 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

The popping and scratching may give it a bit of character, sure, just like the handling of vinyl. But I'd rather have the clean sound of a CD, I could add the popping, scratching and decreasing dynamical range near the end with a bit of software. Can't do that the other way around 😉

Wed, 07 May 2025 22:21:42 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Oh yes, vinyl is becoming popular again. Not sure why. Again, it's not the quality.

Must be a kind of melancholy, I think.

Thu, 08 May 2025 05:35:29 +0200

William Robison

william_robison@diaspora.glasswings.com

Yeah just tell this boomer all about it!........

What a pain in the ass. But I just ripped all my CD's to FLAC and down load them to my phone.

Thu, 08 May 2025 08:25:07 +0200

drbens@diaspora.psyco.fr

simply keeping my mp3's

Thu, 08 May 2025 20:32:09 +0200

David

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

First: not GenX but all of us who are old enough to have owned phonograph records.

Second: I also prefer the bright, clear sound of CDs.

Third: My favorite records of all time were released on shellac records, not vinyl. Of course they were recorded before I was born.

https://archive.org/download/JV-19806-1942-QmbFqdvwupwrdBG6p9cq9cSGqUStxTqD9c42hJCjiD8MNm.mp3/DECLA2851.mp3

Unfortunately, someone took away the scratches and gave this a muddy sound. The Internet Archive used to have a recording directly from the shellac, with no retouching. That was before the recent attack by the record industry.

Thu, 08 May 2025 20:35:34 +0200

David

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

Oh! "Sugar Foot Stomp" performed by Bob Crosby and his Orchestra. 1942. This tune is also known as "Dippermouth Blues."

Thu, 08 May 2025 20:37:38 +0200

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dianea@diasporasocial.net

I'm sure someone has already written an open source free software to take a ultra high resolution picture of vinyl and process it into the highest quality audio tracks...

Thu, 08 May 2025 22:13:18 +0200

Mark Wollschlager

mark_wollschlager@diaspora.glasswings.com

There have been 'no touch' laser 'needle' turntables. I'm not sure if it is anything other than a gimmick. Sound quality has never been up to anything other than okay. Wikipedia - Laser Turntable