Subj : Turntables and LPs
To : Arelor
From : Ogg
Date : Wed Sep 15 2021 11:58 pm
Hello Arelor!
** On Wednesday 15.09.21 - 09:04, Arelor wrote to Ogg:
>> I was positioning myself to digitize my LP collection a few
>> years ago, but when Spotify came along, the whole idea seemed
>> moot. A Spotify subscription is far less than the cost of time
A> I don't think a streaming subscription is a substitute of
A> having your own copy. My father used to brag of some films
A> he had available at Amazon Prime for so cheap, until they
A> took those down of the platform.
But my point is that I *do* have my own originals. It just
doesn't make sense to go through the time and effort to make
copies when I can get them from Spotify.
Should the day arrive when a certain recording would nolonger
be available on Spotify.. no problem - *then* I could dig out
my original and make a copy of that.
It just doesn't make sense to digitize a 1100 LP collection
when the digitization of the mast majority of it is already
done by someone else.
A> I have taken the time to digitize my VHS or otherwise
A> obtain quality digital copies of my multimedia because of
A> that reason. You cannot count things to be available on the
A> Internet forever, even in the Pirate underdarks.
Makes sense to put VHS onto a newer medium anyway. I have a
DVR recorder that can faciliate the output of a VHS player so
that I could record the content of the VHS onto the HDD and
then burn the file to DVD. But some commercial VHS movie tapes
output a scramble signal and can't be copied that way.
