As a fellow physical media lover, I wish I'd had the foresight (and the drive space) to rip all my old CDs as FLAC back in the day. I ripped everything I had into 128kbps MP3s at the time. Then I went and used the CDs in the car, portable CD player, etc. until most of them weren't that great condition, got tossed, etc. and I have almost none of them.
So unfortunately, at the time music is one of the only things I still pay to stream, albeit not Spotify. I just enjoy the expansive library available that I haven't had the time to build up. I do have a handful on my NAS and a few physical CDs I picked up at an estate sale. There's actually tons at the flea markets around here I should look through them more. For me, I go more for blu-rays. I have no streaming services, when I want to watch something, I acquire it and either watch the disc or rip it if it's a TV series or I want to take it with me. Since I care about maybe 1% of modern content, it's pretty easy to find what I'm looking for.
Soulseek is still going, lads. I rediscovered it recently on recommendation from a fren. Everything I need in FLAC whenever browser searches fail me, which is nearly 100% of the time these days. Frequently now I order physical albums (to patronise the bands) then head straight to soulseek to nab it in lossless digital before it arrives in the post.
No worries, man, it was a bit of a revelation for me too. The fact that all the same chatrooms, full of all the same kind of annoying spergs, were still there from 20 years ago, almost brought a tear to my eye. Just goes to show sometimes the best solutions are the old ones.
As a fellow physical media lover, I wish I'd had the foresight (and the drive space) to rip all my old CDs as FLAC back in the day. I ripped everything I had into 128kbps MP3s at the time. Then I went and used the CDs in the car, portable CD player, etc. until most of them weren't that great condition, got tossed, etc. and I have almost none of them.
So unfortunately, at the time music is one of the only things I still pay to stream, albeit not Spotify. I just enjoy the expansive library available that I haven't had the time to build up. I do have a handful on my NAS and a few physical CDs I picked up at an estate sale. There's actually tons at the flea markets around here I should look through them more. For me, I go more for blu-rays. I have no streaming services, when I want to watch something, I acquire it and either watch the disc or rip it if it's a TV series or I want to take it with me. Since I care about maybe 1% of modern content, it's pretty easy to find what I'm looking for.
Soulseek is still going, lads. I rediscovered it recently on recommendation from a fren. Everything I need in FLAC whenever browser searches fail me, which is nearly 100% of the time these days. Frequently now I order physical albums (to patronise the bands) then head straight to soulseek to nab it in lossless digital before it arrives in the post.
tagging u/dagthegnome and u/KeeperOfTheGate in case you guys also didn't know.
No worries, man, it was a bit of a revelation for me too. The fact that all the same chatrooms, full of all the same kind of annoying spergs, were still there from 20 years ago, almost brought a tear to my eye. Just goes to show sometimes the best solutions are the old ones.
Thanks for the tip, wasn't familiar with Soulseek. I've got a few CDs that won't rip properly for various reasons.