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Rokyfan
Maybe soon you could download it all onto an internal chip and take it with you.
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Nikkei
Remember when such a card had 256MB and it was considered a lot?
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Nikkei
There's no better expression for it. I guess at some point the structures are too small to work reliably. Remember when such a card had 256MB and it was considered a lot?
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treaclefingers
What does 'rot' mean exactly? Is it degrading?
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24FPS
I don't know when flash drives first came out. Does anyone have music on a flash drive over 20 years old? How does it sound?
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24FPS
I don't know what it all means. I started my CD collection in 1988 through a record club. They were cheap. I remember all the horror stories about CDs at the time, how they were going to rot. My James Taylor Greatest Hits from 1988 sounds exactly the same 33 years on. My West German copy of the Stones first album still sounds incredible.
CD sound has actually improved over time, with SACD, Blu Ray, and SHM CDs. I don't know when flash drives first came out. Does anyone have music on a flash drive over 20 years old? How does it sound?
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Re: OT: The day the music died new
Posted by: Irix ()
Date: July 21, 2021 20:55
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dcba
This is more worrying : [www.nytimes.com]
"The Day the Music Burned" - 2008 archive fire at Universal Music - see also here: [iorr.org] .
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ProfessorWolf
can't wait to see what condition my tapes will be in after another 50 years
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ProfessorWolf
haven't got any that bad but i have 50 plus year old 8 tracks that still sound great
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shadooby
Got over 2,000 cd's and not a one of them won't play. They're gonna outlast me...unless I've got the same DNA as Keef or Willie.
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Fernandobsas
Iam 54 years old, born in the vinyl and tapes era, in my case I dont have Spotify or any other streaming services, I copied all my cds to a external hard drive in the .wav format and connected my pc to my Yamaha receiver. This is the way I listen music. Can't listen music in mp3, imagine all the work and creativity of people like Coltrane, Neil Young, Beatles, Stones, etc, etc reduced to a poor quality format.
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Fernando
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dmay
Interesting reads. Should we be buying cassette tape players (boom boxes, Walkmans, if they can be found), turntables, CD players and so forth to have for playing our music collections in 50 years (yes, I exaggerate here re age, but who knows, we all may be part bionic by then listening to music through our ear implants). I don't have anything stored in "the cloud" but do have tons of music backed up to external hard drives along with hundreds of CDs, record albums, tapes and some 45 rpm records. Guess I'll have to buy a spare computer now so I can access the hard drives sometime down the road. My daughter is big on Spotify and whatever it is Amazon has regarding music and its Alexa thing. She's amazed I still listen to CDs, records, tapes. These kids today, what can I say?
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