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  • CD comeback.. a CDN story.

    From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to All on Sun Sep 13 13:25:00 2026
    "Compact discs (CDs) are making a comeback and finding a new generation of buyers and connoisseurs across Canada as teenagers and young adults turn to the once-declining format to find an affordable way to own music."

    https://www.westernstandard.news/news/gen-z-fuels-cd-comeback-at-calgary-record-stores-as-canadian-sales-rise/76613

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to August Abolins on Thu Sep 17 08:23:19 2026
    August Abolins wrote to All <=-

    "Compact discs (CDs) are making a comeback and finding a new generation
    of buyers and connoisseurs across Canada as teenagers and young adults turn to the once-declining format to find an affordable way to own
    music."

    I wonder when kids will discover usenet? You could fill an old iPod or
    old phone with music in record time. :)

    There's a new site called YouTube as well. Music downloaded off of YT
    isn't the greatest quality, but it's free...

    I am impressed by the iPod modding community - seeing iPods with SSD
    storage, bluetooth and new batteries is pretty impressive.

    If only I could mod my Zune...



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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/107 to Kurt Weiske on Thu Sep 17 16:29:10 2026
    There's a new site called YouTube as well. Music downloaded off of YT
    isn't the greatest quality, but it's free...

    yt-dlp, even with the latest, greatest version installed, quit working here about a year ago when I upgraded to Debian 13. There was a known compatibility issue that downloading and installing a bunch of extra stuff was supposed to fix but, to no surprise, it did not. ;)

    Mike

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Mike Powell on Sat Sep 19 09:08:59 2026
    Mike Powell wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    There's a new site called YouTube as well. Music downloaded off of YT
    isn't the greatest quality, but it's free...

    yt-dlp, even with the latest, greatest version installed, quit working here about a year ago when I upgraded to Debian 13. There was a known compatibility issue that downloading and installing a bunch of extra
    stuff was supposed to fix but, to no surprise, it did not. ;)

    It works pretty well here under Windows. Most of my daytime work
    ambient music was scrobbled from audio streams back in 2000, and
    they're 64kb streams. They sound OK, and YouTube usually sounds
    similar.



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