How Discogs built — and broke — a community of diehard music fans and sellers.

A home for music diehards has been fractured by increased fees that are pushing sellers and shoppers to other platforms.

  • Madison_rogueOP
    3•9 months ago

    It is not difficult to make copies of vinyl records. All you need is an audio output from a receiver, a computer, and recording software (such as GarageBand or Logic Pro).

    You’d be surprised how easy and relatively cheap it is to rip vinyl to MP3.

    • Granixo
      0•9 months ago

      But MP3 is a lossy format 🤨

        • Granixo
          1•9 months ago

          Why not FLAC though?

          • Madison_rogueOP
            1•9 months ago

            I haven’t worked with FLAC since the hardware I own utilizes AIFF & WAV raw recording file formats. Exporting I typically use MP3 with a sample rate of 128Kbps/44.1KHz. I haven’t tried FLAC yet. I might try to do that next opportunity to see if the file sizes are comparable (there’s a size limit when I upload DJ mixes to Mixcloud).