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private ways to buy music? (midwest.social)

submitted 7 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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streaming has a history of being data intrusive. and buying from most online stores show itemized music receipts to the credit card company (and don't typically allow giftcards). buying in person is nice, but harder to get new music.

any tips?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Buy CDs. Fun and affordable if your music tastes can be found in thrift stores.

See if your local record store will order in new releases or otherwise for you on CD. Mine does and it's not a very large store.

From there, rip to a computer where you either copy it to a mobile device for listening or self host your own streaming service such as Navidrome or Jellyfin.

The streaming service is easy to self host and I'd love to give more details. You can also "borrow your friend's CDs to rip them" and stream content that you didn't necessarily pay for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

In case you don't have an optical drive, new ones cost only slightly more than one CD these days.

Here's some guidance on which models are especially good at audio ripping:

https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/10/audio-cd-ripping-hardware/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

rip to a computer

99% of new PCs lack a CD drive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You don't have to buy an entire new pc for that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

If someone wants to put together a physical CD collection then <$50 is a small investment for a external CD drive. Thrift store CDs are cheap but it still has its costs. Streaming service subscriptions add up as well.