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God help me I just bought a bunch of CDs

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futurefields

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Well, CD+Digital's, to be exact. Amazon AutoRip. Been dealing with a crap music collection, bunch of skipping ripped CD's from torrents and I told myself I'm not gonna go down that road anymore. So picked up 13 of my favorite albums, all told was less than a $100 bucks. I'll probably come back for another round in a couple months. Feels good to be "legit". #themightycompactdisc

PS - also is awesome to listen to a clean version of my favorite album that i've been listening to a scratched/skipping version of for ages.
 
Meh. I'm glad to not have to buy physical media anymore, aside from small bands that aren't digital. I have way too may discs/tapes of various kinds that take up a ton of room, and are highly inconvenient. I also don't especially like mp3. What bit rate do they give you?
 
lxskllr said:
Meh. I'm glad to not have to buy physical media anymore, aside from small bands that aren't digital. I have way too may discs/tapes of various kinds that take up a ton of room, and are highly inconvenient. I also don't especially like mp3. What bit rate do they give you?
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futurefields said:
Vbr 256
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That's not bad. When I used mp3, I ripped to 192vbr. Of course, that was after *a lot* of experimentation. I have some stupid shit in my collection. I now use 256vorbis(q8). It sounds perfect on my less than perfect equipment, and still allows a transcode while maintaining its "perfection". It also doesn't take a ton of room like flac.
 
My CD purchases have slowed down a bit (although there's an eBay auction I'm watching right now), but I enjoy owning some physical stuff as well. You might want to find a new source of less-than-legit music if bad rips are that common, though. Some places are full of idiots that rip low-quality YouTube uploads to "320kbps" mp3s, but in my experience enthusiast blogs, slsk, etc have pretty good quality control.
 
HamburgerBoy said:
My CD purchases have slowed down a bit (although there's an eBay auction I'm watching right now), but I enjoy owning some physical stuff as well. You might want to find a new source of less-than-legit music if bad rips are that common, though. Some places are full of idiots that rip low-quality YouTube uploads to "320kbps" mp3s, but in my experience enthusiast blogs, slsk, etc have pretty good quality control.
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Mine all sound fine, they are coming from Amazon not some kid in his childhood bedroom, I'm sure if there is a bad rip they would hear about it pretty fast and fix it.
 
Expecting four new CDs with today's mail. If we can get it on CD that is our first choice followed by FLAC or other lossless followed by Amazon mp3 followed by iTunes AAC. No real difference between Amazon and iTunes other than that Amazon is almost always a buck cheaper.
 
I also recently got into buying physical discs again, Amazon as well. I like it. It's nice to have a physical copy with all the liner notes and all.
 
HamburgerBoy said:
My CD purchases have slowed down a bit (although there's an eBay auction I'm watching right now), but I enjoy owning some physical stuff as well. You might want to find a new source of less-than-legit music if bad rips are that common, though. Some places are full of idiots that rip low-quality YouTube uploads to "320kbps" mp3s, but in my experience enthusiast blogs, slsk, etc have pretty good quality control.
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Most of the "full length" albums on YT are really bad quality, even less than 128Kbbs, it is irrelevant what bitrate what someone uses when burning it to a CD, crap is crap, all a higher bitrate could possibly attain is to stop further degradation.
 
I always buy music on CD; it's the lowest common denominator as pretty much everyone has one. From there I rip to MP3 using CDex.

320kbit + VBR
 
I still buy CDs for the sound quality, and rip them in FLAC to my PC. I've gotten a lot of good deals on used discs from a local chain, and also right from Amazon. Sometimes they're only a few cents (plus shipping).
 
You bought normal CDs?

I buy nothing but gold remasters, SHM, Audio Fidelity and Analogue Productions mastered from the original tapes etc.
 
lxskllr said:
Meh. I'm glad to not have to buy physical media anymore, aside from small bands that aren't digital. I have way too may discs/tapes of various kinds that take up a ton of room, and are highly inconvenient. I also don't especially like mp3. What bit rate do they give you?
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CDs are cheap enough its hard to believe someone is not digital.
 
ElFenix said:
CDs are cheap enough its hard to believe someone is not digital.
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Well, it's more the effort in finding them. It's easier to go to the band's table after a show than track down which digital service they use, if any. It also gives more money directly to the band. There's no middleman taking a cut at their table.
 
I don't buy a lot of music. My dad and I have similar tastes so I've always borrowed his stuff. I've bought a few vinyl albums recently. I like the warmer sound you get, and the cover art you don't really get with digital or CDs. It's too bad hipsters had to run it.

lxskllr said:
Well, it's more the effort in finding them. It's easier to go to the band's table after a show than track down which digital service they use, if any. It also gives more money directly to the band. There's no middleman taking a cut at their table.
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That's what's really killed the traditional corporate music industry. You can get high quality recording equipment for a couple grand. Record your own songs, mix them yourself, then direct market them. Which is why indie bands are flourishing today. Those people would have been confined to dingy bars and obscure festivals just 10 years ago.
 
All the CDs I've purchased in the past few years just sound horrible. I'm thinking of buying a turntable and breaking out my vinyl.
 
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