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  • Lett Osprey :v_pan: :v_enby: 🍉 :therian:lettosprey@tech.lgbt
    Sep 11, 2026, 8:42 AM

    It's kinda sad to see BigTech tainting technology to the point where people feel it's best to drop the tech all together.

    The "comeback of physical media" is an example. People again investing money in CD's and CD players, because they want to "own rather than rent".

    Oki, you at least own the CD, but it's especially bad when this appear to span to DVD's as well. You own a physical DVD disk, sure, but we should remember region locks, content protection and all the stuff that makes your ability to play the content of a DVD a "borrowed time" experience.

    But the CD marked was dominated by the same kinda companies that now run streaming. Why desire to go back to this?

    Why not turn to sites like #bandcamp where you can buy music from those that make it?

    It seems like the "time in the middle", the time where we carried an mp3 collection with us, is forgotten. With the new capacities on storage, we can have the audio in better quality than CD.

    Also, software like #Jellyfin exists to stream our OWN music.

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  • Lett Osprey :v_pan: :v_enby: 🍉 :therian:lettosprey@tech.lgbt
    Sep 11, 2026, 8:53 AM

    @georgebaily Artists can sell Vinyl and CD's via Bandcamp, exactly who ships and how that works, I have no idea, but the point is still that you don't NEED to get the music on a CD in order to own it.

    I have bought quite a bit of music off Bandcamp, the music is on my hard disc as well as the backup disks. The quality is the same, or better, than CD's.

    Investing in hardware to play CD's and having music shipped on a storage media that holds some 0.7Gb, seems like a bit wasteful *OvO*

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  • Nicdnicd@masto.ahlcode.fi
    Sep 11, 2026, 9:33 AM

    @lettosprey Navidrome user here, I love having my own streaming library. Navidrome has worked very well for me.

    Migrated to this throughout the years via portable CD player -> several MP3 players -> Phone -> Navidrome.

    Trying to get rid of my CDs but I'm not seeing a "comeback of physical media" here yet, no one's buying them! :D That's the downside of picking up cheap flea market CDs, you keep on accumulating them and they're of no use after ripping.

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