So, I’m not sure about most of this guy’s arguments, but one major argument I side with fully is with CDs, and also vinyl too for that matter, you actually own your stuff and no one can randomly break into your house and take it away from you.

Also, if you rip your CDs to FLAC and keep the physical copies on a shelf but listen to the FLAC rips, you have a ‘master disc’ of sorts to go back to and re-rip should your FLAC rips ever go bad or get lost, plus those FLAC rips can be transcoded to high-bitrate lossy copies for use on space-constrained DAPs, eg. transcoding to 510kbit/s Opus for that purpose.

  • Evotech@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I just don’t think it’s feasible that everyone should store their own copies of everything. Idk if people have played their CDs recently but they are probably not great

    • DFX4509BOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Relying solely on streaming or download services is even less feasible when you start to randomly get content you supposedly paid for yanked from you.