It’s not that I don’t get the appeal of having larger artwork. But the medium itself in the way it’s used and produced doesn’t make sense. The whole audio production pipeline is digital. Producers take analogue audio, introduce quantisation and digitisation errors immediately to be able to use their fancy computers to produce the music (which introduces even more errors due to all filters being digital) just to then dump that digital piece of sound into an analogue medium at the very end. Nothing is gained except the digital-analogue-conversion happens before creating the medium whereas with CDs you do it after reading from that medium. Which is a stupid idea, as dust and other issues will then mess with the result you’re hearing.

Now, if you’re a producer that actually uses an all-analogue workflow, ignore this, I don’t mean you. You also have my deepest respect for enduring that pain. Please point me towards some records that actually did this though.

  • naeap@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I usually listen to stuff digitally encoded on some capable device

    But there is just something with putting on a vinyl and listening to the whole album
    I could do the same with digital media, but it just feels different

    It’s not really about the music quality, it’s just about the experience

    You don’t need to like it, but some people do and that’s ok as well

    I like some 80s punk (Ton Steine Scherben) and I got their whole work gifted in vinyl.
    Usually I just listen to mp3/ogg of them, but from time to time, I like to spin up a vinyl and just let it run and listen
    It’s…well, it’s a different experience

    • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
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      16 days ago

      oh no i also like it! it’s the entire purposeful ritualistic thing that makes it good. i did that a lot when i was younger. and that’s why vinyl still makes sense for the experience. but the op was all about the quality, and there’s nothing special about the quality of vinyl other than nostalgia.