#if ur interested in learning about sailing the high seas for mp3s lemme know

[falaffles-mywaffles]

This is all very great information and I fully support bringing back cd-roms and cds.

Especially making mixtapes for road trips or just to give to a friend with a lil sharpie title like “Things That Made Me Think Of You :)” or “Nightcore Anime Weeb Shit Vol. 4”

But please please please do NOT fear monger mp3s. You CAN own digital purchases of songs as long as you are able to download the mp3 file that song is YOURS forever. It is IN your computer. You can copy that mp3 onto an exportable hard drive/flash drive. You can put that mp3 into another computer or device and play that song as many times over. The important thing to remember here is MAKE SURE YOU ARE PURCHASING THE MP3.

I know we shit on Apple but any iTunes song purchase is an actual mp3 you can find in your computer in your iTunes folder. Back it up. They don’t do DRM anymore for their songs so you don’t need to worry about that either now. Plus ngl it’s ridiculous easy to rip songs from CDs onto itunes that then get converted to mp3s for you and to also burn CDs using iTunes too (its literally like Sonaspectrum said). It’s also easy to transfer your library now too along with all the playlists you made and play counts of your songs between computers.

But look, if you aren’t an Apple fan and don’t want a program of theirs on your computer that’s perfect fine. Because there’s SO MANY FREE ALTERNATIVES ON DIFFERENT OS YOU CAN USE INSTEAD TOO (iTunes is free as well if anyone is interested in it). It just takes one quick search of “music library player” for you to get started but by default, computers already come with the capacity to simply play your mp3 files and so many already come with a built in music player too that will actually house all your mp3s.

CDs and vinyls are great and I love that they’re coming back but shit happens and they aren’t 100% forever yours simply because they can in fact get damaged and it can happen over time regardless of how well you take care of it. Vinyls warp, CDs scratch, but thats part of the charm and experience of those mediums. It’s proof of how loved the music was to be played so often. But there’s a reason mp3 became big. Because they allowed us to FINALLY have a real “forever” form of a song that we can then put back into another CD whenever or simply have it on a different device but you STILL have all those songs.

PLEASE learn about mp3s again. PLEASE utilize it in conjunction with CDs (I mean you’re going to have to if you plan on making your own CDs anyways).

And hey…since we’re bringing back old forms of listening to music can we repopularize mp3 players again? As someone who actually had books of CDs and grew up on them I truly love them to death, I do. But if you’re going to be on a long road trip it can uh…get tiring listening to the same songs for a while and changing out CDs can be tedious if you’re alone in the car and driving. Mp3 players were a slightly better alternative that also allowed you more music options as well. It’s the reason I still use one to this day as my way of listening to music in my car (that I’m lucky is old enough to still have an aux input). Imagine having your entire music library in your hands and being able to listen to whatever song you want as many times you want with zero commercials zero need for internet and it’s all yours.

Might be a longshot, but I just want aux and CD-ROMs to stay in cars and computers.

I’m sure there’s some mp3 players with bluetooth capabilities as well and there’s devices like AirFly that allow you to make your mp3 players into bluetooth readable devices (I personally use this method so I can still listen to my iPod with my wireless earbuds). So just because you may not have a reliable CD or vinyl player around or accesible to you, you aren’t limited to streaming services. Please free yourself of Spotify.

Welp anyways that’s my spiel ✌🏼

HOLD THE LINE!! KEEP PUSHING!!!!!