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Re:50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player by masklinn on Friday January 02, 2026 @05:53AM (#46463561)
Sure, but on the whole I’d take getting FLAC directly over CDs. Not that I don’t have CDs, even deluxe editions with picture books and stuff, but I pretty much never get them out.

I can understand people preferring vinyls as physical artefacts, the full frame jackets of my father’s albums are gorgeous in a way that’s distinct from and superior to CD album art, even if the music bit is markedly inferior technically (although that technical inferiority has led to better musical end results in some cases, you can’t compress the shit out of a vinyl, then again hopefully that time is long on the past).

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Re:50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player by Uvix on Friday January 02, 2026 @09:45PM (#46472277)
I'd take getting FLAC files directly, but they're not available most of the time.
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Re:50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player by masklinn on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:24AM (#46474045)
Yeah. But my point is mostly that the CD remains nothing but a transmission vessel for the audio, I don't know anyone and have seldom heard of people who value CDs for their physicality as a CD. Unlike vinyls which they very much do.
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