Subj : Re: Vinyl vs CD To : Ogg From : Greenlfc Date : Mon Feb 21 2022 06:39:40 On 20 Feb 2022, Ogg said the following... Og> Hello Greenlfc! Og> Og> G> While styluses wear over time, there's still a good stock and new Og> G> production in 2022. Og> Og> That is reassuring, and somewhat astonishing actually. With LPs Og> (and vinyl in general) being such a much smaller market than Og> streaming services, I have to wonder what the justification Og> might be for companies to continue to invest in producing the Og> auxiliary supplies (cartridges/needles/tonearms/belts, etc) for Og> the turntable crowd. For the past, I think it's two years, new vinyl has outsold CD. There's money to be made on folks who will pay $25 for a disc versus, at best, $1/track for the *good* songs on the album. It's a collectibles market, but it does something useful versus those Funko Pops my daughter buys :D. Og> G> At the end of the day, though, I'd see recreating the early 1900s Og> G> technology of turntables to be somewhat easier than recreating somethi Og> G> that can play MP3s. Og> Og> Did you mean to say CDs instead of MP3s? "Playing" mp3s is Og> just a software process. Playing CDs might require far too Og> many integrated circuits and electronics. No, I did mean to say MP3s, although CD playing technology is another difficult one to create without existing tooling. Precision lasers are not something to cook up in your back yard (precision is relative of course). I think we're looking at it through two different lenses. I'm looking at it as, "the world's manufacturing capability has been crippled by war/famine/everyone who knows how to maintain things dying out" and trying to rebuild. I think you're looking at it from the perspective of everything carrying on and continuing to progress to where future generations will have trouble reading Edison cylinders, for example, but anything that's already been digitized is just copied on and on forever. Og> Og> G> Even if a record is *broken*, you could still stand a chance of recove Og> G> the data from it, albeit difficultly. Og> Og> Have you heard of the project that was poised to digitize LPs Og> by passing a laser around the grooves? Indeed, it's a neat idea. Og> G> Permanence in an age of digital ephemera is an invaluable Og> G> attribute. Og> Og> I'd say longetivity over permanence. Permanence is valueless Og> at one's grave. :/ No matter what one's particular views are of the nature of existence, we all want to preserve knowledge to keep our posterity from making the same mistakes and helping them know their origins. Who knows, if we're still here in 2000 years, maybe my vinyl collection will be like the Dead Sea Scrolls :). GreenLFC º e> greenleaderfanclub@protonmail.com Infosec / Ham / Retro º masto> GLFC@mstdn.starnix.network Avoids Politics on BBS º gem> gemini.greenleader.xyz --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Raspberry Pi/32) * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150) .