streaming has a history of being data intrusive. and buying from most online stores show itemized music receipts to the credit card company (and don’t typically allow giftcards). buying in person is nice, but harder to get new music.
any tips?
streaming has a history of being data intrusive. and buying from most online stores show itemized music receipts to the credit card company (and don’t typically allow giftcards). buying in person is nice, but harder to get new music.
any tips?
Buy CDs. Fun and affordable if your music tastes can be found in thrift stores.
See if your local record store will order in new releases or otherwise for you on CD. Mine does and it’s not a very large store.
From there, rip to a computer where you either copy it to a mobile device for listening or self host your own streaming service such as Navidrome or Jellyfin.
It is highly impractical and arbitrary to tie a digital download to a physical piece of media, especially if you have no plans to use it after ripping. Waiting until it arrives or going to a now-rare disk store, and then almost immediately either throwing into the trash or bothering to resell - neither feels good.
+1
In case you don’t have an optical drive, new ones cost only slightly more than one CD these days.
Here’s some guidance on which models are especially good at audio ripping:
https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/10/audio-cd-ripping-hardware/
99% of new PCs lack a CD drive.
You can buy a USB CD drive for relatively little cash
You don’t have to buy an entire new pc for that.
you can buy and install one yourself, or get a usb one for ~$20
If someone wants to put together a physical CD collection then <$50 is a small investment for a external CD drive. Thrift store CDs are cheap but it still has it’s costs. Streaming service subscriptions add up as well.