Albumfags, how do you cope with digital only? -

[Hikikomori-Yume]

Humanity is entering a post-physical media era.
In this age, how does a person who prefers their albums to be represented as a tangible item cope?
For yeaaaaaarrrs (12 years) I have been trying to find ways to make my digital collection give me the same feeling having actual albums did ... and nothing has ever come close.
Btw, I realize this topic is probably very niche and won't gather many people who understand or sympathize with me but whatever..
I hate having everything digital only, either as a collection of tiny jpg images and flac files or worse, streamed or played through something like rhythmbox.
Sure if you just simply want to hear the music then all those things should suffice, but here is the thing, I am an albumfag, I prefer collecting music and the experience of an album as a tangible thing.
Post-physical zaps all the fun and soul of music for me.
I have tried so many different ways of emulating the album experience, such as having the album as a single file with a cue sheet and embedded album art or coverflow mode in certain programs (which was buggy and still not the same).
Just now I had an idea, what if I was wearing AR glasses and the album art was a floating picture I could move around with my hands, then to browse through my collection I could have each album displayed as the cover art placed somewhere in my room, then when I want to initiate playback I could pull out a virtual record that I would then place onto an AR turntable ... which brings me to my next idea ...
The same idea as above only in VR ...
So please if you're reading this and you love albums too .. steal my idea and build the program for me in virtual reality or augmented reality.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Good music still gets physical releases. By the time nobody is putting out physical media anymore I'll be dead and the world will likely be a post human land populated by servers and robots so I don't give a shit.

 

[Terminus Est]

All the bands I listen to still have physical releases with all their albums and on vinyl as well. So I'm good and I don't think physical sales will ever really die out. The good stuff still gets physical releases.

 

[Hikikomori-Yume]

Good music still gets physical releases. By the time nobody is putting out physical media anymore I'll be dead and the world will likely be a post human land populated by servers and robots so I don't give a shit.

A lot of music isn't released physically though
Think about the net labels and bedroom musicians
Plus all the out of print stuff

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

A lot of music isn't released physically though
Think about the net labels and bedroom musicians
Plus all the out of print stuff

I don't give a fuck about some faggot making Generic Harsh Noise Album #4637 or Soundcloud sadboi rap mixtape #585

Good music gets physical releases if the musician isn't a child, has money and believes in the project he's a part of. The stuff that doesn't get physical releases is unfiltered garbage that nobody cares about, not even the musician themselves.

t. I played in a band comprised of mostly unemployed beer drinkers about 10 years ago. We somehow managed to rent studio time and we self published 2 complete albums. I have them on my shelf at home plus a few units I'm keeping to maybe give away as gifts or something. If unemployed kids from a backwater in Russia can publish their music and get it pressed - anyone can.

 

[WEEDle]

When I was younger there was something special about buying a tape cassette or album. Of course this was before I had access to the internet and was able to download music, but there was some overlapping time where that magical feeling of having a physical copy persisted.

I suppose a big part of it was the album artwork, or when they put a lot of effort into the inserts, proving song lyrics, sometimes handwritten, often with a lot of cool graphics, photographs, etc. This would all be played on a hi-fi with CD and tape cassettes. I didn't have a working record player for very long, but I recall having a Beastie Boys album on vinyl being a big deal around 2006, and that was when I did download a lot of music.

Towards the end of the 2000s I really stopped caring. The only way I listened to my music by the end of that decade was on my computer anyway, and unfortunately a lot of my CDs had fallen into disrepair with cracked cases and scratched discs.

I have bought a handful of CDs in this decade, but I usually just transfer them to my computer, put the CDs on my shelf and don't end up touching them for years to come. The magic of owning a physical copy seems long gone, but thankfully the spirit of the music lives on.

 

[Hikikomori-Yume]

I don't give a fuck about some faggot making Generic Harsh Noise Album #4637 or Soundcloud sadboi rap mixtape #585

Good music gets physical releases if the musician isn't a child, has money and believes in the project he's a part of. The stuff that doesn't get physical releases is unfiltered garbage that nobody cares about, not even the musician themselves.

You're approaching this from your own myopic perspective.
Sure there is a ton of bad music on the net, but there is also a lot of amazing music that is only available online, some of it that has been forgotten but thankfully archived by faithful individuals such as myself.
Just because someone hasn't or can't release their musical physically doesn't mean they aren't dedicated or are a child, take me for example I'm weary about putting my stuff on bandcamp ebay since they would take a cut and fuck you if you think that only music signed to a label is worthy.
I wish there was an easier way to distribute music without the jews taking a cut.

 

[User names must be unique]

Humanity is entering a post-physical media era.
In this age, how does a person who prefers their albums to be represented as a tangible item cope?
For yeaaaaaarrrs (12 years) I have been trying to find ways to make my digital collection give me the same feeling having actual albums did

I grew up mostly swapping cassettes and burned discs, so physical media isn't all that important to me.

The 100+ physical albums I have are in a box in the attic because they just got in the way, the only time I touched them was to knock the dust off.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Take me for example I'm weary about putting my stuff on bandcamp ebay since they would take a cut and fuck you if you think that only music signed to a label is worthy.
I wish there was an easier way to distribute music without the jews taking a cut.

You don't host your music on those places because it's shit and nobody would pay you anyway. I've listened to the stuff you've posted in the musician's thread. It's garbage and you recognize it as such. This whole "i don't want the jews to get a cut" excuse is a bullshit excuse to avoid having ZERO album sales after 6 months and getting third party confirmation that you wasted your time.

My myopic perspective is that if you provide a product that people are willing to pay money for, you can make money off your product. Whether or not you're making 100% profit off it, or there's someone taking a 10% cut, that's irrelevant. Besides, most musicians make their money from playing live, and not off album sales.

 

[Hikikomori-Yume]

You don't host your music on those places because it's shit and nobody would pay you anyway. I've listened to the stuff you've posted in the musician's thread. It's garbage and you recognize it as such. This whole "i don't want the jews to get a cut" excuse is a bullshit excuse to avoid having ZERO album sales after 6 months and getting third party confirmation that you wasted your time.

My myopic perspective is that if you provide a product that people are willing to pay money for, you can make money off your product. Whether or not you're making 100% profit off it, or there's someone taking a 10% cut, that's irrelevant. Besides, most musicians make their money from playing live, and not off album sales.

You are a faggot and are now on my ignore list.
Begone.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

 

[Kuchipatchi]

Don't go digital and encourage digital only artists to release physical. We have Kickstarter and Indiegogo so they don't have an excuse if they say they can't afford to publish CDs.
No normie goes exploring Soundcloud to find some obscure band to listen to in their spare time and normies make up a lot of music fans.
If you don't go the extra mile to get your music out there, it deserves to be forgotten.

Also, I've heard that iTunes is abysmal when it comes to digital only but I don't remember why. Stick to HMV.

 

[Hikikomori-Yume]

If you don't go the extra mile to get your music out there, it deserves to be forgotten.

Music shouldn't have to prove its worth, it should just exist.

 

[Regardless]

Vinyl is the hipster of Hifi.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

Music shouldn't have to prove its worth, it should just exist.

Then why complain when it gets obscure and forgotten?

 

[Puddleduck]

You're approaching this from your own myopic perspective.
Sure there is a ton of bad music on the net, but there is also a lot of amazing music that is only available online, some of it that has been forgotten but thankfully archived by faithful individuals such as myself.
Just because someone hasn't or can't release their musical physically doesn't mean they aren't dedicated or are a child, take me for example I'm weary about putting my stuff on bandcamp ebay since they would take a cut and fuck you if you think that only music signed to a label is worthy.
I wish there was an easier way to distribute music without the jews taking a cut.

You can self publish music onto CDs via Amazon, I think it's an offshoot of CreateSpace. The CDs will be burned on demand and sent to customers.

 

[Mysterious Capitalist]

Just print the cover and put it on a virgin disk case or something (and burn the disk if you want that too)

 

[Murmur]

You are a faggot and are now on my ignore list.
Begone.

Hey go ahead and throw me on that ignore list as well. You're a huge piece of shit and I don't want to ever have to acknowledge your existence for fear of killing myself.

 

[donpachi]

You're approaching this from your own myopic perspective.
Sure there is a ton of bad music on the net, but there is also a lot of amazing music that is only available online, some of it that has been forgotten but thankfully archived by faithful individuals such as myself.
Just because someone hasn't or can't release their musical physically doesn't mean they aren't dedicated or are a child, take me for example I'm weary about putting my stuff on bandcamp ebay since they would take a cut and fuck you if you think that only music signed to a label is worthy.
I wish there was an easier way to distribute music without the jews taking a cut.

its super easy to make physical copies DIY with tapes or CD-R's, so even if artists don't have access to any professional pressing plants or duplication services, they can still very much throw something together.
regarding the jews, you do realise you can distribute stuff yourself, right? you are giving digital files to people over the internet, literally setup a website with a payment processor/crypto address for donations and put a big fat download button on the page.
To answer your OP, I don't see physical music releases going away any time soon in the case of records and for some reason now cassettes because they hold value to collector types, but they seem completely redundant to me nowadays where every release is being mastered through digital equipment anyways and furthermore they are less convenient. So, digital is the future.

 

[Positron]

No way I'll pay for a sound file; I'll only download if it is both legal and free.

I'm old fashioned; and I treasure things such as album art and notes. Unfortunately nowadays even physical reissues of classical music stint on linear notes (Sony/BMG is the fucking worst) -- and I won't buy those either.