• supernicepojo@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Is there anywhere that guarantees access to purchases forever? Ive purchased music in the past from other providers that went under and lost access to it all.

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      2 days ago

      Bandcamp gives you drm free copies of the music. I think you can do flac, mp3, or ogg. They do recommend downloading your copy after buying it because in rare cases something can be removed

      I’ve bought some CDs directly and then ripped the music myself, too.

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      2 days ago

      Aside from actually downloading the audio files and stripping any DRM off them? No one will offer truly perpetual access, because that means maintaining infrastructure forever, which simply isn’t going to happen.

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        2 days ago

        Understand the argument of perpetuity but thats certainly not what I would ask for. CDs and physical media have a life expectancy too but at least I can make copies of those.

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          You can always rip cds and records you buy to a nas with a raid setup and an external drive you put in cold storage…media forever then

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            1 day ago

            Yea, Ive got a Jbod sitting around somewhere. Just being pedantic but thats not forever either, there is no physical media that so far will last into infinity. I really thought that was where we would be by now considering how popular VHS, DVD and Vinyl and CDs were.

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              22 hours ago

              Forever as in, multiple lifetimes…

              Yes, sadly physical media advancements are dead. I always thought it would be fun to see what comes after cd, if the internet hadn’t come.

              If only we could go back to reel to reels, such a great sounding format that really lasted (have some from 1950 that sound good as new) but the machines take care, and people dont listen to music at home anymore. And making tapes uses a lot of plastic that im not crazy about. But I love them anyway.

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                14 hours ago

                Thats wild you still have tapes! Do you have a VAC in your garage too? I kid.

                There is a huge fidelity difference between physical media, as much as I have enjoyed mp3 it always sounded off and we know why. Data storage is still an enormous premium, I had hoped the future would reduce the price to access any media due to it not having to be printed, pressed or otherwise transferred physically, but that pipe dream is long gone.