[siffland]

My kids laugh at me because I still buy CDs and rip them and some bandcamp. I rip to flac, not for some audiophile reason, but because I can rip a single file for the album with metadata included and space is cheap.

I never have to worry about an internet connection or if an artist drops from a platform.

[digitalsushi]

My best friend learned how the shell works because of bandcamp.

He spent one summer ripping about 400 CDs he owned.

He was ripping them into a directory called .junk. He moved each into the parent directory when it was complete.

And the final command of his project was 'rm -rf . junk'.

[happymellon]

Tab to complete is something that everyone eventually discovers is more than just a shortcut.

It's a proofreader too.

[_the_inflator]

400 times 10-20 USD = 4000-8000 USD.

Divided by 20 amounts to 16-33 years. Roughly.

That’s why I don’t bother about CDs anymore. I used to carry them around privately on a NAT Server many years ago, copying them to my iPod.

[eutropia]

The final command of his first project, you mean - because surely then he started over?

[willcipriano]

I do the same but run it though Picard[0] before adding to Plex.

[0]https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

[Our_Benefactors]

I would buy more CD if they were available but many artists don’t even press them.

[soupbowl]

I do the same but per track flac and stream my music with navidrome. When I am out of the house I VPN in and stream my music at work or while driving.

[kderbyma]

also there is a FOSS platform.....Navidrome