In any format? I prefer to buy video games physically and have a respectable book, VHS and vinyl record collection. Though the majority of my music and video-based entertainment are digital.
I have a huge collection of DRM free movies, shows, books, music, etc.
It’s physically in my house, but digitally on my hard drives. With quadruple redundancy, including offline backups.
I’ll always prefer physical media over streaming for things I like.
It’s mainly Bluray nowadays, but also some older DVDs.
I think nowadays MP3s are physical media.
(And technically they’re stored on a physical medium in your possession).I guess it’s no different to a CD really. Just a smaller file on a bigger storage medium.
Well, MP3s are lossy compression so from a technical standpoint they’re very different from CDs.
If anything, FLAC files are closer to CDs than MP3s are because those are lossless, and of course WAV rips are raw, uncompressed rips similar to what you’d get with DAT.
No, but MP3s are closer to MDs or DCCs in that those are also lossy compression, with literally being an evolution of the codec DCC used (MP1) while MD used Sony’s homegrown ATRAC codec, than they are to CDs, while FLAC is lossless so it should be the same as a CD with WAV or AIFF rips literally being an uncompressed copy of said CD.
Yeah that’s my bad. You are literally correct. I was meaning more figuratively and going with MP3 as a general term rather than the format specifically.
That’s fine, I’m just nerding out.
While I do use steaming services for tv/movies and music, I’ve also got reasonably large collections of DVDs/BluRays, hard copy video games, books (never liked ebooks or even audio books) and most of all, vinyl records (over 1000 in my collection and ever -growing!)
Happy with having a mix of media, and increasingly keen to make sure I own things rather than only having them available through a stream, convenient though that is.
Most of my music comes from CDs, but I have ripped them to use on my iPod and in Plexamp. Also have a heap of books and dvds but more digital with these
Records and books mostly. But I just moved my CDs out of my storage space.
I wanted to buy physical books and movies for myself but I have a small room (in parent’s basement) and don’t yet got my own place. There’s no space for it, really.
I’ve gotten myself setup with a DVD and BD Capable Amplifier, so I’ve been slowly getting a little DVD and BD Collection!
Yep, torrented content on hard drives, using media servers like jellyfin, audiobookshelf, calibre, and navidrome. Accessible on any device, anywhere in the world.
Yes. Tons of physical music. Tons of physical movies both DVD and vhs.
Games, I sadly have only digital for the most part for pc, but I have ps1 ps2 atari n64 nes genesis snes Xbox physical games still.
To me, there is a huge push to make us own nothing and be a slave to corpos. This upsets me. And I’ve always loved physical media. Its much more real.
A hard drive full of non drm files is fine too (especially for tv shows, since stacks and stacks of dvds do take up space) but its not quite the same.
Oh ya and i have a small library maybe like 300 books
I prefer paper books when I can afford them as I find it easier to focus when I have a physical book to hold. And it just feels like a nicer experience.
I have a few physical books left to read and I have a lot of DVDs to watch. I would’ve liked to have had a few video game consoles and the amount of games I’d want to have per console, but the used video games market has been broken for a while now.
Music remains digital, I just outgrew CDs entirely.
I read a lot of physical books. Everything else is digital for me at this point. I pirate everything. In a world where media can be endlessly distributed essentially for free, it feels somewhat wasteful to insist on physical copies of that media.
As much as I love collecting books, I’ve decided now my shelf is so full, my next reading purchase will be a kobo instead.
When or ifever I end up buying music, it’s going to be physical where possible because legal download sites are going on delisting sprees now, eg. like 7Digital’s been doing for a while now.
At least with physical CDs, I can do my own FLAC rips and not worry about losing the physical copy unlike with legal download sites where if it’s delisted, it’s completely gone even for downloads you already bought.
Vinyl also technically can be ripped to FLAC, but since you’re digitizing an analog format, it’s a real-time process so you gotta sit through an entire side of an LP unlike with CDs which can be ripped quickly, plus you’d need to manually split the raw waveform up into individual tracks, and manually input metadata, digitizing analog formats like vinyl, open-reel, or cassette is a very long, drawn-out, and manual process vs. ripping CDs, but it’s something I’d still recommend doing especially as vinyl physically wears down every time it’s played back as is its nature being a mechanical format read by a stylus, so digitizing an album to FLAC for future playback and then putting the physical album back on the shelf can prolong its life, especially for any particularly valuable albums.
This goes for tape formats too.
unlike with legal download sites where if it’s delisted, it’s completely gone even for downloads you already bought
I don’t understand the difference. Can’t you just download it when you buy it? They can’t take away files on your device.
If you lose those files and don’t have them backed up for whatever reason, and they’re delisted from downloading, they’re gone, or if they get corrupted for some reason and they’re delisted, you can’t just re-download them anymore.
You’re putting a lot more trust into CDs than I ever would.
At least they won’t go away if the downloads for them are delisted, they’ll still be there for you to re-rip from.
Yes, CD’s, SACD’s, DVD’s, Blu-ray’s, Ultra HD Blu-Ray’s, and vinyl records. Also have some HD-DVD’s (I regret getting into it because the discs and hardware are unreliable) and Minidiscs (also regret getting into).
