I had to catch a train from the suburbs into the city just to put down a deposit on a vinyl record which would be ordered from overseas then I would get a phone call a week or two later to come pick it up.
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kbal@fedia.io 5 months ago
People listened to records, cassette tapes and CDs
Recording formats often get mentioned, but they are not the important music thing of which kids today are often unaware. The important thing is that we used to have record collections (which were mostly composed of CDs by the time I was old enough to have a modest one.)
I now have a more extensive one and enjoy it greatly, only now it's in mp3 form.
sqgl@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Valmond@beehaw.org 5 months ago
That’s why I advocate against Spotify. At least as a sole way to listen to music (it’s maybe good at finding new stuff).
BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Best part of pre internet was a friend would call saying the got the latest obscure album and we would all rush to their place for a listening party. While something like spotify, etc makes access easier the music culture suffers
jay2@beehaw.org 5 months ago
CDs are still king with me. 1,957 and still counting. I feel cheated if I don’t get to enjoy that romance of flipping through the liner notes while listening to the CD that first time. I rip the songs I like after a few days of listening to it. I suspect the day will come when MP3’s will not be free.
DVD’s too. Almost 1,400 of them as well.
I did have to let the cassette tapes go. I kept some of the rarer ones, but they weren’t meant to last 40 years and would not likely survive another rewind.
YuzuDrink@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I rip all my CDs to FLAC so I can listen to them easily while working or driving or walking or otherwise where having headphones and a phone is easy but carrying a book of burned backups and a CD Walkman would be hard.
But I also have a humble collection of vinyl because I actually really like the ritual of placing the stylus and listening and turning the record over when I want to just… hear the music and enjoy it for itself.
derbis@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I might even suggest that having an mp3 or other file-based record collection is still in the same vein.
The big departure, imo, is people who don’t own their music collections. They rely only on Spotify or Apple or Amazon or whatever and just stream.
One day, when their contracts with the labels or whatever expire, your collection evaporates. It’s happened before.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Also worth noting that records are sort of at risk - waning are the days when you’d listen to a record front to back “as intended”, and singles are increasingly popular - no doubt due to YouTube.
Interestingly and perhaps relatedly, even the musical techniques are changing.
Either side isn’t good or bad, but the change is interesting to observe.
luciole@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Oh to prepare a mixtape on a dual cassette player… Now that I migrated as well to a digital mp3 library it would be dead easy to make playlists, but somehow the convenience kills the fun out of it.
Froyn@kbin.social 5 months ago
Timing to hit the pause button (to unpause) in order to start a recording JUST as the DJ stops talking and the song kicks in...
Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I wish. The DJ would always talk over the start of the songs, and then start jabbering again before it ended.
YuzuDrink@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Now I’m wondering if part of why DJs talked over songs was specifically so we COULDN’T get clean recordings on cassette…
sqgl@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Get free DJ software and do crossfades. You couldn’t do that with dual cassette players.