Subj : Re: Tapes
To   : n2qfd
From : hollowone
Date : Sun Nov 03 2024 06:40:28

 n2>    I was thinking about how I want direct control of my music again and

If control over the way you listen to the music, then particular medium holding the audio data matters not.

I had the same thoughts years ago. I started collecting LPs again as one of the remedies. I also have few tapes and also few empty tapes to record something on them, but I don't over use that medium. It'd be fun if I had Walkman to come back to childhood memories of how I listen to the music while being remote to my home audio systems, but the only remote location I have to listen to anything audio is my car and I have it sorted there differently as well.

Basically two things. LPs stay, they are cool way to listen to the music and perfect reason to receive them as presents for any occasion, easy shot for my friends and family and my collection grows.

Then I came back to the number of CDs I already have and digitalized them all into FLAC. I keep downloading albums for offline use than anything streaming (legal or illegal, doesn't matter technically doesn't matter).

I have them all on my NAS for local audio and share with audio devices remotely via iPhone. I also download what I fancy to have in my car as full albums to the device, basically treating my iPhone as if it was iPod again.

I use VOX on my computer, Winamp on my iPhone and listen to all the albums I have in an old fashioned way, from 1st to last tune as it was designed originally.

I use Elby also to present my audio like if I had Spotify but with private collection and no plan and listen from my TV with another set of audio speakers as alternative to the set in a room where I have my LP, CD, Tape Players + Bluetooth for remote playback.

I try to avoid Spotify and YT for any recommendation driven playback. I rather browse through bestalbumoftheyear.com or similar sites (metacritic too) to figure out what I think I should discover next.

That has cured my random approach to music completely.

-h1

.... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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