How Discogs built — and broke — a community of diehard music fans and sellers.

A home for music diehards has been fractured by increased fees that are pushing sellers and shoppers to other platforms.

  • @adam_yEnglish
    17•1 year ago

    And then minidiscs, briefly, and then mp3s again, and then vinyl and then tapes, and then CDs and then minidiscs and then mp3s again, and then right track and then wax cylinder and then tape and the vinyl…

    It’s just a consumerist carousel. But what you like. Listen to it. Enjoy it. Fuck the format.

    • Granixo
      7•1 year ago

      I mean at least CDs do make more sense as they are physical copies of digital sound (where as the others are analog, which, regardless of quality, it’s hard to make copies of.) 📼

      • @[email protected]
        4•1 year ago

        But that’s sorta why collecting vinyls instead of CDs makes more sense. With CD can have the exact same thing as a file, but not so much with vinyl.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•1 year ago

          I like buying CDs so I have a backup in case things go very wrong. The fact that a CD is the same as a digital file but physical plays to that advantage.

          That being said I think I’m thinking on starting my own vinyl collection now - got the bug thanks to buying a 7-inch from Grouper. CD and vinyl have completely different but still valid use cases.

      • Madison_rogueOP
        3•1 year ago

        It is not difficult to make copies of vinyl records. All you need is an audio output from a receiver, a computer, and recording software (such as GarageBand or Logic Pro).

        You’d be surprised how easy and relatively cheap it is to rip vinyl to MP3.

              • Madison_rogueOP
                1•1 year ago

                I haven’t worked with FLAC since the hardware I own utilizes AIFF & WAV raw recording file formats. Exporting I typically use MP3 with a sample rate of 128Kbps/44.1KHz. I haven’t tried FLAC yet. I might try to do that next opportunity to see if the file sizes are comparable (there’s a size limit when I upload DJ mixes to Mixcloud).