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[Sorcerer]

The last few weeks I have not been able to find one album with an auto-rip symbol. What happened? For a while it was cheaper to buy a cd with auto-rip than just the mp3 download, use to buy a cd just to hit the $25 dollar free shipping. Also track listings are gone unless you search for the mp3 downloads specifically. Anybody know whats going on?

 

[YCoCg]

They're encoding methods was trash anyway, literally one of the worse ways to do it, some fool just automated everything with the old ass LAME default preset from decades ago.

 

[Master Of Illusion]

Amazon mp3s are trash (I don't think they're even encoded at 44.1khz).

 

[teezzy]

Soulseek is your friend

Buying albums? Lmao

 

[TaySan]

Soulseek is your friend

Buying albums? Lmao

Bandcamp for life

 

[teezzy]

I stream and pirate

Used to collect records

I'm too old and dont need the money pit. Spent so much money on audiophile gear just to get my shit not sounding like a record any longer

Shit is for the birds

 

[crumbs]

The last few weeks I have not been able to find one album with an auto-rip symbol. What happened? For a while it was cheaper to buy a cd with auto-rip than just the mp3 download, use to buy a cd just to hit the $25 dollar free shipping. Also track listings are gone unless you search for the mp3 downloads specifically. Anybody know whats going on?

Seems like Amazon changed a bunch of stuff with regards to music shopping. I'm unable to preview MP3 tracks and can longer wishlist MP3 albums. You can still preview music via their app, but I'm not sure why they would make these changes.

 

[Sorcerer]

Seems like Amazon changed a bunch of stuff with regards to music shopping. I'm unable to preview MP3 tracks and can longer wishlist MP3 albums. You can still preview music via their app, but I'm not sure why they would make these changes.

I guess Amazon wants to you sign up for the streaming service. Just surprised it disappeared without any sort of announcement. A few weeks ago I buy a vinyl with auto-rip, next week the service has seemingly disappeared.
I see there is a lot of hate here for the mp3's, even physical copies of music. I am not an audiophile by any stretch of the imagination but it was kind of neat to buy a physical copy and then being able to call up that album/song on my echo speaker. A Godsend for me, no expensive stereo, no maintenance, no space issues. I could even give away the physical copy if I knew someone really wanted it. I went through the collector thing but I am too old, too broke, not enough space or time for all this stuff, though I love it all. I spend too much time on Discog's just looking at all the inner sleeve art I was curious about when I was younger. LOL!!! I will admit to being kind of dumb and should just sign up for 10 bucks a month and just stream everything, but I am way too old and set in my ways I guess, going back to when I was a kid and would walk miles to a mom and pop record store to buy something. I heard an interview with Henry Rollins and he has to have every possible pressing of an album in his collection. That is just sheer insanity, one copy of everything can become a burden, imagine 7-20 copies of every album in your collection!!!

 

[Valonquar]

I survive on shit-tier Clipgrab rips of youtube videos for music. It's good enough in my car anyhow.