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   Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 01:02:42 JST Another Linux Walt Alt

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   • Hyolobrika
   @Hyolobrika You can, but is it in a vendor-specific format that you can only open as long as you're a current subscriber? Is it a standardized format with low bitrate to deter copying? Is it infested with TUR (technical use restrictions, often euphemized as DRM) With physical media, you don't have to worry about such shennanigans.
   
   (I grew up with records ["vinyls"] and tapes [cassettes and 8-tracks], but other than cassettes, I've not ever owned a playback device of my own. When Son_2 and my mom bought me a portable CD player a around 25 ago, it really opened up access to music for me.)
   
   I have an old media player (plays MP3, OGG, and a few other formats), and only one song on the whole thing came from a digital download. The others are all copied from CDs that I bought. I'm planning to buy more, but only on CD.
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     Hyolobrika (hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 01:02:43 JST Hyolobrika

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     • 🌲-alist
     @threalist You can own a copy of digital media, though. It's just that normies don't know how.
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     🌲-alist (threalist@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 01:02:44 JST 🌲-alist
     Demand for physical media formats is surging.
     
     Many are attributing this to nostalgia, but that isn't right. Most of the demand is coming from generations that weren't even alive when vinyl ruled the music scene, for example.
     
     It is a rejection and retreat from the digital dystopia. Physical isn't easier, it's not cheaper, and isn't objectively better than digital. But people want to touch and feel it. They want to own it.
     
     So I'm surprised there isn't a new physical music format coming to rival cassettes, CDs, and vinyl.
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