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How should I efficiently discover, collect, store and access new music in 2015?
Spotify is an excellent means of discovering new music based on similar artists and genres. They have a "tab" that is dedicated to discovering new music based on everything you listen to. However, ...
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How should I efficiently discover, collect, store and access new music in 2015?
I'll be honest; in my advanced age I no longer care about "hard copies". Mainly because I've moved my vast vinyl collection (approx. 5,000 pieces) several times and it sucks. So, now I store it on ...
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Is there deliberate marketing that tries to persuade people to prefer vinyl records over CDs?
This might come across as a tad cynical ;)
Personally, I feel it's that people, given sufficient peer pressure, can easily be convinced to fool themselves. No need for marketing pressure.
Most people ...
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Who designed and approved the easily broken jewel case hinge?
As explained on Philips.com:
Because of its sensitive surface, it was necessary to package the CD
in such a way that it would be fully protected against damage. The
package also had to provide ...
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How should I efficiently discover, collect, store and access new music in 2015?
I'm using Apple Music for digital music on the go - and for discovery. The 'for you' tab is by far the best recommendation feature among the streaming services IMO (and I've been through both Spotify, ...
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How should I efficiently discover, collect, store and access new music in 2015?
I'm with you, I'm still invested in my personally curated "collection," and have an antipathy to algorithmic services like Spotify and Pandora. I continue to discover a fair amount of music through ...
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Windows Media Player not offering "Rip CD" option for some CDs
According to the Wikipedia, that era was the midst of manufacturer's attempts to apply copy protection to CDs. If those disks have that enabled, that would explain it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Why is Metallica's "Hardwired... to Self-Destruct" issued on two CDDAs?
According to Hetfield:
On "Hardwired...To Self-Destruct" being a double disc:
Hetfield: "There's twelve songs, and they're not all three and a half
minutes like "Hardwired' was. But there is ...
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Has audio quality improved since the CD era?
When CDs first arrived on the scene, mid 80s, some [very few] albums were separately mixed/mastered for vinyl & CD/tape. Partly this was to be able to take advantage of the new, lower noise floor &...
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Can the warm sound of vinyl be recorded onto CD?
See https://musicfans.stackexchange.com/a/2421/84 for another angle on this.
The 'warm' sound of vinyl is a misnomer; a better description these days would be 'blurred' or 'distorted'.
When CDs first ...
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Is any Tomorrowland Orchestra music available on CD?
The Tomorrowland Orchestra is actually The Metropole Orkest, an orchestra for hire based in the Netherlands. Wikipedia's entry for them includes a selected discography.
The Metropole Orkest seems not ...
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Multi-channels for audio standard
5.1 never got real traction in music, it's purely a home theater thing now.
But, Cinemas worldwide recently started to adopt 3D audio formats like DTS-X and Dolby-Atmos and Auro3D. That lead to ...
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Why do CD "releases" often contain only one big, long FLAC file instead of individual track files?
Because that's how the data is structured on the CD itself, and thus gives the highest fidelity reproduction of what's on the CD.
The way audio data is stored on the CD is as one continuous stream of ...
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How should I efficiently discover, collect, store and access new music in 2015?
This seems like a purely opinion based question. But it's a fun one. And interesting.
These days, I get exposed to 'new music' that I like in a few different ways:
Radio. Believe it or not, radio is ...
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How should I efficiently discover, collect, store and access new music in 2015?
As for collecting and storing music, I nowadays only buy vinyls, and preferably LP's. I only buy albums which I like and that I know I will listen to frequently.
So how do I discover new music?
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How should I efficiently discover, collect, store and access new music in 2015?
I search for songs on SoundCloud based on a genre I like. There's surprisingly a lot of good stuff on there, ranging from apocalyptic music (such as Maxim Zhdanov) to dubstep/middle-eastern fusion (...
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How do you sort your CDs?
I had the same problem with my LP collection, so when I switched to CDs (35 years ago) this is what I did:
Put a ID-number sticker on the spine of each case, 001, 002, etc. when I bought it.
File ...
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How do you sort your CDs?
You won't be able to arrive at a sorting allowing all searches to be easy. My proposal: find a somewhat decent sorting (e. g. by main artist/year, but possibly simply by date of purchase) and maintain ...
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How do you sort your CDs?
the path of least resistance for popular music, as suggested by Johnny Bones above, is sorting first by artist, then by release date.
however, this approach falls over in several cases. with ...
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Catalog/index CDs using their label barcodes
Thank you both for your input. In the meantime I have stumbled on what seems to be an excellent solution.
www.collectorz.com is a facility for cataloguing CDs, books, music, and videos. It offers an ...
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Locating CD equivalents of vinyl recordings
Discogs.com definitely contains this information. You can plug in the Deadwax ID or Catalog Number, it will bring up the release, and then you scroll down to Other Versions and click on View All. ...
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Locating CD equivalents of vinyl recordings
There's no systematic way to find out which vinyl recordings were re-released on CD, but it's often possible to find out with a bit of detective work.
Taking the example from the question, the LP has ...
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Is there deliberate marketing that tries to persuade people to prefer vinyl records over CDs?
No particular marketing campaign was necessary for vinyl --like many older technologies that were once ubiquitous, it has become a beloved, nostalgic niche product for aficionados. As one of those, I ...
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Why is Metallica's "Hardwired... to Self-Destruct" issued on two CDDAs?
I didn't found any official answer to this, so here some thoughts.
In its LP Vinyl version, the album has been released in double disc. You may know that in LP discs you can hardly have good quality ...
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In U2's The Joshua Tree, how did the end of One Tree Hill get stuck on the beginning of Exit?
When this album was made, CDs were just on the verge of breaking through to mainstream adoption. The established technologies --records and cassettes --were generally played through from beginning to ...
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Ravel's "Sheherazade" by Boulez & von Otter; official title on side of cd
I did not manage to find something either, some other information may be found on DG. Given the additional problems of
where to sort in a multi-composer CD like this and
the habit of record labels, ...
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Is there deliberate marketing that tries to persuade people to prefer vinyl records over CDs?
The 'Audiophool' magazines and sites certainly perpetrate the myth, in a symbiotic relationship with their advertisers. (For a good laugh, take a look at Russ Andrews' shop.)
A veteran British ...
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Catalog/index CDs using their label barcodes
This french app (link Google Play)/(link iTunes) (maybe you can find the equivalent in your country) allows people to sell their second hand CDs. The app will scan the bar code, identify the disc (...
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