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Vinyl vs. CD vs. tapes vs. digital. What's your favourite storage medium for owning your music and why? (libranet.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am pretty much referring to music that you actually own in one way or another, not music from Spotify, Deezer, SoundCloud, YT (Music) or whatever provider you use to stream music.

I am a bit old-fashioned and I prefer to have actual ownership of the music. I have a bunch of vinyls, some physical CDs that I use for backup (basically I rip them again if I ever have a problem with the already ripped files on my PC - also saves time because I can skip the albums that I own on CD when backing up my computer) and that I also buy because they're cheaper, and finally I source the music from wherever I can find (mostly on Bandcamp when I can buy it). My rule of thumb is to keep .flac files on my PC and .mp3 on my phone, as the storage is lower - but sometimes the formats in which songs are available vary.

How are you keeping your music? Is it a digital or physical/analog environment? If it's digital, which is the format of your choice? Why did you find it better for yourself than the rest?

(Sorry if this might not be the appropriate community for this question)

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

Any of it is so much better than listening to an AM radio while I delivered newspapers.
Yesterday I heard a Red Rider song from an album that I had recorded on cassette off FM radio.
I converted whatever music I had into MP3s 20 years ago, When I was converting LPs to MP3 I did several concept albums which didn't have songs, so I set the length at 6 minutes or less. I was using MP3 Direct Cut which had a bar graph, I could visually chop up albums into songs without actually listening. Over some years I went through my collection & chopped up songs that were too long or have intros longer than 10 seconds, I may or maynot keep the originals. I use the comment field for tags to make it easier include/exclude long, duplicate, alternate versions I have more than a few copies of music files, including data cd's from 15 years ago, sata hdd, sd cards, nvme. every 6 months or so I renew a couple of the back ups