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Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued To Grow Last Year (fortune.com)
Albums sold on vinyl and cassette both saw a growth in sales according to BuzzAngle Music's End-Year Report profiling U.S. music industry consumption for 2018. From a report: Vinyl sales grew by just shy of 12% from 8.6 to 9.7 million sales, while cassette sales grew by almost 19% from 99,400 to 118,200 copies sold in the US, The Verge reported. Sixty-six percent of those vinyl sales were of albums that are more than three years old and feature classic bands like The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, and Pink Floyd, reported BuzzAngle. Cassettes saw popularity in newer releases. CDs on the other hand have declined by 18.5% in popularity leading to a total decline in physical album sales of over 15%, reported The Verge. Meanwhile, audio streaming saw an increase of 41.8%, the largest of all music consumption.
its worse than bit rot. bit rot implies you had once a perfect copy; and in that case, you could have copied it to HD and others for backup.
vinyl and analog cassette NEVER let you get a perfect copy. each and every time you play it, it gets worse and different (both). can't avoid it unless you optically scan the LP; and no way to avoid degrading tapes (they stretch, have drop-outs, no redundancy, bleed-thru, HF loss, etc).
I have no idea what you are talking about. I grew up with that stuff, glad its gone, I do audio for a hobby and digital is the only way to go.
analog is for hipsters OR for those who have exceptional analog systems, and that's really rare, today.
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You can also buy "raw water" for $20 a gallon, but that doesn't mean it's better. Old records suck and cassettes are even worse. Tube amps suck too. I've lived with all of them. It's cool for a retro experience, but that's about it.
there are still ways to tell the difference, especially on tracks that have any waveform that are close to a fundamental harmonic of the sampling rate. You can actually hear the sampling beat frequencies injected into the music and distortion
So you have not heard of Nyquist frequency or sinc filtering. If you can actually hear beat frequencies than your hardware (software?) is misdesigned. It can be mathematically proven that you can't hear such beat frequencies in a properly engineered system. Of course I realize I am telling this to someone who *believes* in vinyl, so it probably fell on deaf ears.
Anyway, I can guarantee that you are wrong about the other guy being wrong. This is science.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
A cassette tape will never install a rootkit on your tapedeck.
Neither will a standard Red Book audio CD.
They will never be able to take your cassette tapes away from you due to some rights-holder asshattery.
Neither will they with a standard Red Book audio CD.
A cassette tape doesn't care what region your playing it in.
Neither does a standard Red Book audio CD.
Cool old cars have tape decks.
My cool old car has a CD changer.
Creedence is supposed to have those hiss and pop sounds.
If so, they put it on the master so it should show up on your standard Red Book audio CD.
Tapes come with cool album art, lryics, and hidden messages.
So does a standard Red Book audio CD.
Tapes work offline.
So does a standard Red Book audio CD.
Tapes don't report your listening habits, location, duration, sexual preference and political affiliation so some corporation.
Neither will a standard Red Book audio CD.
Fuck it, this is too much work... romanticize all you want, just keep it to yourself!