Music lovers have been duped into paying $120 a year for lesser quality music

[Dynamite James]

Boast about owning a blank cd with some artwork and music files on it brehs

What’s wrong with that?

 

[shutterguy]

to be honest it's hard to differenciate flac from 320 if you don't have a trained ear. I still have a audiophile player (cowon plenue d2) and I put flac on it with the albums I like. I have like a hundred cd's but I stop purchased them because of lack a space and money. The last cd I bought were bad and off the wall because I couldn't find them on flac. I have a flac software to convert cd's to flac

set up is important too. Since I listen to a lot of rap I need good restitution of bass so I like intras like jabra elite 75 t. I would like to try the sony's wf1000xm4

I have the wm1000xm4's, best headphones I've ever had.

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

I have the wm1000xm4's, best headphones I've ever had.

Bet. But I can't put headphones no more, they are too big, I don't like to feel them while doing sport and I've worked for years at a call center, so I can't stand to have aN headphone on my head anymore

my best alternative is intra, much more discreet

 

[jilla82]

The biggest problem since streaming has overtaken cds is the industry pushes 2 minute McDonald pop songs.

Artist create singles that can be streamed in countless playlist and are short enough with out being skipped with being genre netural . 20 years ago artist created cohesive full length albums that would have to be mix mastered and printed. Its really hard to put into words. But the product being sold was more thoughtful. In 2021 artist can put out music almost as soon as its done in the studio.

weve been going that direction for decades

I was listening to James Brown the other day and a lot of his songs were 10min+

Then you go to jazz with 30min songs

We'll be at 30sec songs soon enough

 

[N*E*R*D]

120 for damn near every artist entire discography and Convenience >>>> 120
For 6 albums

You guys are basically saying CDs cost around $20 a pop thinking you could only get 6 CDs with $120 lol.

 

[Chip Skylark]

You guys are basically saying CDs cost around $20 a pop thinking you could only get 6 CDs with $120 lol.

The majority of the albums I’ve bought and have collected were 10 to 20 bucks when they were first released. Regardless you’re still paying 120 for damn near every album release. Which is great cause I listen to damn near every genre of music

 

[DonRe]

Vinyl still reigns supreme in audio quality. But for anyone to defend music through digital médiums as decent is ridiculous.
At best the sound is good.

its terrible usually. But fast music will yield shyt like that. These labels cut major corners when it comes to mastering and mixing records. Along with the shyt being riddled with issues.

music aint really meant to be heard through shytty apple head phones and beats pill

 

[ClemenzaSupreme]

I have a huge CD collection and I have hardrives full of mp3s but Streaming is just more convenient. You get instant access to new music released at midnight every Thursday. If a song pops into my head i can look it up in seconds. I wouldnt even know what sites to download music from anymore. I also dont have time to burn a CD...I dont even have a CD player lol As far as owning the music goes, just google Deemix. Lets you download from streaming sites.. Also if there is something missing from streaming sites I can sync local files from my hard drive to spotify easily.

 

[GPBear]

Vinyl is superior in audio quality and doesn’t deteriorate over time like CDs. CD is purely digital, vinyl is analog.

but yea, compression wars overall toon a heavy toll on music recording

 

[B86]

Look at all these young nikkas in here.

Vinyl, Tapes and CD's reign supreme in my household. Yeah I stream but physical is always superior, when it's time to relax or get in the zone to chill, I put on the physical

Im 35 and just don’t see the appeal of keeping up with physical media. What does the mood have to do with getting up, finding a disk, putting it in, hoping it don’t skip? If I’m in the mood I tell Alexa to play pretty much whatever I want “through the house” and it’s rocking all 3 floors with Apple Music or Spotify in about 1/100th of the time it takes you to even get up and press power on the stereo. I get in the car and say what I want to hear or continue from what was last playing…never have to find a disk or none of that

This is coming from somebody that said fukk 9/11 and still caught the bus to the record store to get Blueprint and Ghetto Fabulous that day so I’m definitely from the CD era

 

[N*E*R*D]

I talked all that shyt and I’m back to Apple Music

They got out of print cds I love like Ghetty Green and Mista Don’t Play. Imagine buying those albums used for $60 a pop.

What I said about sound quality still stands tho CD and Vinyl is better sounding.

 

[N*E*R*D]

Im 35 and just don’t see the appeal of keeping up with physical media. What does the mood have to do with getting up, finding a disk, putting it in, hoping it don’t skip? If I’m in the mood I tell Alexa to play pretty much whatever I want “through the house” and it’s rocking all 3 floors with Apple Music or Spotify in about 1/100th of the time it takes you to even get up and press power on the stereo. I get in the car and say what I want to hear or continue from what was last playing…never have to find a disk or none of that

This is coming from somebody that said fukk 9/11 and still caught the bus to the record store to get Blueprint and Ghetto Fabulous that day so I’m definitely from the CD era

Whats your setup that allows you to do that? Also what speakers you got?

 

[Air Nikes N Hats]

The last cassette tapes I purchased were Method Man's Tical 2000, Redmans Docs Da Name, and the RZAs Bobby Digital....all dropped around the same time, Nov/December 1998. I went nuts with CDs after, buying every at Mom/Pop stores who got them early at $15, and if not...Best Buy (Albums were always 9.99 or less their debut weeks, before the price was bumped up to 14.99 after. Thousands of dollars blown, many times on albums that had 3-4 good tracks, and the rest trash.

At some point I accumulated 400-500 CDs, hated the space they took up....and dove into digital and haven't looked back. At this point, it only makes sense to buy physical if you're a collector IMO.

 

[Magnum P.I.M.P.]

I’m a collector. There’s a time and place for everything. I listen to mostly vinyl at home, but there’s cracks and pops no matter how clean you keep your shyt. CD’s sound great and they’ll last forever and sounding pristine if you handle them correctly and don’t let your mongoloid friends borrow them. I have CD’s from over 30 years ago that still play flawlessly and they always will. If your shyt skips it’s because you done fukked up.

That said, streaming is easy and convenient and that’s why it’s always gonna be the most popular no matter what.

 

[Day_Walker]

Where can we dl albums or songs these days. Don't worry feds i pay for music via yt music but like to make up mixes on usb as it's easier when going for longer drives