"We have a personal relationship with vinyl as opposed to an MP3 file."
Speak for yourself. I have some MP3 and MP2 (!) music files that are virtually impossible to find online anymore due to the digital dark ages effect. There's no metadata and all source links are long gone 404 - there's no search phrase you could google for - so the only way to find them is to know someone who knows what they are and where they might exist.
The MP2 file is a bootleg recording of an obscure Prodigy mix from 1992 which incidentally can be found on Youtube, as long as it's not taken down by copyright claims. Then there's others such as a live recording of Röyksopp that's labeled simply "walt sound" without any other information.
If I ever lost the files, I would never be able to find them again or even remember what to look for, or describe what they are (try whistling a D&B song), so they are rather personal to me.
Be careful with your digital masterpieces Eikka. Flash technology fades around the 10 year age point. What's you IP/MAC so that we can trade some files?
Vinyl records scratch and turn into audio hell: click, click, click, click ... Whatever next at the Consumer Electronics Show Edison wax cylinders and 78 rpm shellacs?
Eikka
Jan 9, 2016Speak for yourself. I have some MP3 and MP2 (!) music files that are virtually impossible to find online anymore due to the digital dark ages effect. There's no metadata and all source links are long gone 404 - there's no search phrase you could google for - so the only way to find them is to know someone who knows what they are and where they might exist.
The MP2 file is a bootleg recording of an obscure Prodigy mix from 1992 which incidentally can be found on Youtube, as long as it's not taken down by copyright claims. Then there's others such as a live recording of Röyksopp that's labeled simply "walt sound" without any other information.
If I ever lost the files, I would never be able to find them again or even remember what to look for, or describe what they are (try whistling a D&B song), so they are rather personal to me.