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Arrived Friday. Eh, its ok. not great, not bad. Packaged in a nice black envelope, and a signed copy. Oh, and a poster and little thank you card.
Nice to support independent artists, and not the mainstream industry.
Wed Jul 10 2024 21:12:48 EDT from Nurb432ooo Collide is coming out with a new album, after quite a long time.
MusicBrainz Picard. Not yet ready to turn it loose on my collection, but am trying it on a copy. While most of it I DO have CDs of.. i tend not to bother to rip if i can download, saves me the trouble. BUT .. file names are all over the board ( i fix many, but miss some too ) and tags, are often missing or bad. Back in my day we had standards.. kids these days.
Downloading direct from the artist when i buy CD, when those come across with no tags is the strangest.
Today someone asked me " dont you have any nice and happy songs ". I just blinked at them for a moment. "why" then left.
It's too bad they didnt stick with 'any nice songs' i could have pulled out a Zappa reference of some sort.
Decided re-catalog and re-alpha all my physical CDs yesterday. Learned a few things:
- Far too many don't have bar-codes to scan.. grumble. ( id say about 25% )
- Due to the above its not a one evening job.. lots of typing to to.
- Missing a few i know i had.
- Have a few i thought were gone
- Have a few "what the F- was i thinking at the time, was my taste really that poor then?"
- Quite a few i thought i had ripped, which i have not. ( or lost the files to over the years )
- Had far more than i realized. ( over 400 and counting )
- Lots of old memories in those shelves... ( more with the vinyl collection, but those are gone now )
and most important: i really need to dust more often down there in that bookcase. *sneeze*
Using Discogs for the scanning.. And while they don't have labels and fell into the 'have to type this nonsense" im impressed. All my zeppelin bootlegs from Berlin and Australia were listed.. Ah the good old days of getting Goldmine magazine from the local record store, getting out the magnifying glass and looking for "questionable' stuff to buy..
Kids today will never know.
Kids today will never know.
I have about 720 CDs. A few years back, I re-ripped all of them with X Lossless Decoder to FLAC, stored the results on a pair of hard drives, and use those as my master set. I'll downsample from there to deal with devices that can only handle lossy compression. Still buying CDs with non-recent music on them, nobody wants them. Local record store was selling them for $1 each this past weekend, they had thousands out and I'm told several thousand more still in the basement.
Somewhere over 800 on vinyl now, too. Vacation project was to put the 150-ish newer ones into the alphabetical order of the others. And of course the next day I go out buying and come home with 2 more that go in 'C', oh well.
I think we all do it now -- just go online to play music we have on the shelf somewhere. Most of us even have playlists of music we could listen to by going out to the cabinet and pulling out the discs and tapes. But who wants to do that?
Recently I was reading about how Roger Waters and David Gilmour now hate each other more than ever. And it's because they took different (but both wrong) sides of some stupid sociopolitical issue that doesn't matter at all to the music or the fans. Just one more reason to pirate everything.
I dont. I want it all local. Sure, its been ripped and i dont dig out physical media, but i want the stuff in my grubby hands, under my control. And i never buy 'digital albums' unless there is no choice, and then only from the artist ( or indirectly like via bandcamp, but not the 'industry' ) and i can download all the files. And after that, any DRM ripped from them.
( well unless you consider playing off of a nextcloud server is online.. its still *mine* and in my house )
I think we all do it now -- just go online to play music we have on the shelf somewhere.
I think we all do it now -- just go online to play music we have on
the shelf somewhere. Most of us even have playlists of music we could
listen to by going out to the cabinet and pulling out the discs and
tapes. But who wants to do that?
Well, I have a nice CD collection, and even tapes. What I have done with those is dump them all to server storage at home.
I don't go online for the stuff I have at home. I just play it from storage.
i ditched all my analog ( reel, cassette, 8-track, vinyl ) as i had for the most part repurchased it all on CD over the decades.
Yes, i know, digital will never be as good as analog, but reality is its good enough. And my CDs wont continue to degrade just by existing ( like tape does ) and besides most of the time its listening in the jeep, which is noisy, at my desk with a tiny speaker, or a set of ear buds if im at the office. And im old, so im sure my hearing is not like it used to be either. So its all more than 'good enough' at this point. No more audiophile stuff for me. And that i can fit all the ripped versions in a package about 1/4 the size of a cigarette pack... ( a little music player i have. smaller than an old disk-ipod, but bigger than a ipod nano has bluetooth AND still has an actual audio jack, unlike some phones these days. and will last days on a charge, also unlike most phones )
Well, I have a nice CD collection, and even tapes. What I have done with those is dump them all to server storage at home.
I don't go online for the stuff I have at home. I just play it from storage.
Share the 1996 rant again.
i also seemed to have missed it.
I do hope its about the industry in general, as there was still good independent music that came in the 2000s and ( tho lesser ) in 2010s.. Lesser even now, but still some.
Share the 1996 rant again.