ティージェーグレェ「teajaygrey」 on Nostr: nprofile1q…32cpy CDs, vinyl, heck I even buy cassettes still sometimes despite not ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqy0emt2wlpsezcnmxtyrpf33qe7gwy5u8yzssvv6uw53em0k32t7qz32cpy (nprofile…2cpy) CDs, vinyl, heck I even buy cassettes still sometimes despite not having owned a cassette player in longer than I care to remember (good ones are basically all old and expensive, though a friend got a steal on a refurbished Nakamichi recently and I am envious of his score).
It's been my observation that "streaming" audio doesn't just sound worse, but they pay like fractional pennies in royalties and not even that sometimes.
Buying physical media isn't the be all end all, but typically the musicians get paid more. Bandcamp (despite the Epic buy out, evisceration and sell off) still seems to have one of the better options for the time being for those who buy music (and they don't pay for streams, so you might find artists who will sell their music on Bandcamp but encourage you to stream their music on sites that pay out better for such things).
My old MiniDiscs don't get much love, but ATRAC is: lossy and also proprietary compression; kind of the worst of all possible encoding formats (though as a physical format, MiniDisc had a neat form factor. I'll grant it that much).
It's been my observation that "streaming" audio doesn't just sound worse, but they pay like fractional pennies in royalties and not even that sometimes.
Buying physical media isn't the be all end all, but typically the musicians get paid more. Bandcamp (despite the Epic buy out, evisceration and sell off) still seems to have one of the better options for the time being for those who buy music (and they don't pay for streams, so you might find artists who will sell their music on Bandcamp but encourage you to stream their music on sites that pay out better for such things).
My old MiniDiscs don't get much love, but ATRAC is: lossy and also proprietary compression; kind of the worst of all possible encoding formats (though as a physical format, MiniDisc had a neat form factor. I'll grant it that much).