Subj : Re: 8-Track Vs Cassette
To   : Vk3jed
From : Warpslide
Date : Mon Feb 21 2022 08:08:09

On 21 Feb 2022, Vk3jed said the following...

 Vk> Digital is the natural cassette replacement and go to for home recordable
 Vk> media.  Better performance and generally more robust.

While I enjoy all of the convenience of everything digital (no fast forwarding/rewinding, instant track skipping, no disc/cassette changing, etc) there was something to be said for having physical media.

For me anyway, out of site totally equals out of mind.

I've bought so many albums digitally and I probably listened to them around the time I bought them, but then they blend in and become just another file on my hard drive or thumbnail in in the endless list of available options.  At least when there was a CD on my rack I knew it was there and feel like I probably got more use out of it.

Not too long ago we were out & about and I heard a song playing on the radio in the grocery store that I hadn't heard in a long while.  I shazam'ed it and pressed the "open in Apple Music" button, and sure enough, once upon a time I purchased the whole album.

I can only imagine what must be like for newer artists to try and get discovered now-a-days.

 Vk> (I'm sensitive to vinyl's imperfections.  Lossless digital is my medium
 Vk> of choice, with lossy digital for casual, non critical listening, where
 Vk> economy is more important than fidelity.

Where do you go for lossless?  I mostly use Apple Music as their entire catalogue is now lossless:

https://bbs.lc/KJHPT

"Apple upgraded its entire streaming music catalog to lossless audio using the ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) format. ALAC is a lossless compression format that lets Apple make smaller file sizes without impacting the integrity of the original audio recording."

Though it depends on how you listen to it whether you get the full quality, if you're listening direct from your iPhone/iPad or on a Mac or Apple TV you get lossless quality, but none of their headphones/earbuds support lossless quality:

"None of Apple's headphones, however, work with lossless audio. The AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max are limited to the Bluetooth AAC codec and simply cannot support the ALAC format."


Jay

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