Make sure y'all brehs are keeping your old CDs and/or MP3s

[jadillac]

I recently noticed on all streaming platforms Usher's Confessions album is a new "Expanded Edition"....however this so called expanded version cuts the song lengths down greatly.

I was listening to "Can You Handle It", and all of a sudden the song starts fading out way earlier than I remembered.

I looked at my personal version, and the song is 5:45 in length...this new "expanded" edition version is 4:40. That's a whole minute chopped off a classic song on that album!

And others are chopped too.

Ridiculous. Keep your own collections brehs.

 

[The Dust King]

SMH

thread needs to be examples of this repeatedly

good lookin

 

[hex]

Been telling people this for years.

Cats "renting" music on these streaming services when the label can alter or remove shyt with zero notice, and you have no recourse.

I'm good on that.

Fred.

 

[mbewane]

There's TONS of music that is gonna be lost this way, or just not available anymore if you only go digital. I lost some old CDs I had burned like 20 years ago and the thing is that I don't even know exactly what I lost, some of those were compilations of random tracks heard here and there

 

[jadillac]

Been telling people this for years.

Cats "renting" music on these streaming services when the label can alter or remove shyt with zero notice, and you have no recourse.

I'm good on that.

Fred.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE streaming. I mean, I'm from the times(and yoi are too) of carrying around Caselogic cd cases, so streaming is awesome if you have a vast love for music.

But I remember some ppl saying, "now I can get rid of my cd and movie collection! "

Better Slow down....

 

[BK The Great]

All my CD's and even MP3's are backed up on USB's. fukk streaming.

 

[3rdWorld]

Hate feeling like an unnecessary prophet or visionary, but it's just common sense.
Tying yourself to 'the system' was always going to end as it always does

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

There's TONS of music that is gonna be lost this way, or just not available anymore if you only go digital. I lost some old CDs I had burned like 20 years ago and the thing is that I don't even know exactly what I lost, some of those were compilations of random tracks heard here and there

I just had to burn some old CDs onto my Apple Music. They were there but disappeared all of a sudden. I got entire catalogs on externals cause I don't trust these companies. Even music I've purchased on iTunes just up and disappearing. shyt is wild. Some won't even play because of "unavailable in your country" BS

 

[hex]

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE streaming. I mean, I'm from the times(and yoi are too) of carrying around Caselogic cd cases, so streaming is awesome if you have a vast love for music.

But I remember some ppl saying, "now I can get rid of my cd and movie collection! "

Better Slow down....

I don't fukk with streaming at all and realize I'm a dinosaur.

But the people on the opposite end of the spectrum (like you described) are insane to me. People talking for years about how crooked the music industry etc. is but had no problem putting their entire music collection in their hands, though.

Madness.

Fred.

 

[ThaPrez]

Honestly I am happy to take the hit on getting shorter/ worse versions of a small % of songs for the convenience of not having to rip MP3 or keep CD players and shyt

I take OP's point. And if you're that way minded, you might wanna preserve all the originals

But I am not tryina do all that tbh

 

[Reality Check]

All my CD's and even MP3's are backed up on USB's. fukk streaming.

MP3/owning the CD gang still doesn't lose

 

[letti cook]

the worst is when sample clearances cause them to use a different beat or completely take the song off the album

like, I HATE the verison of TI, Lets Get Away thats on streaming cause they had to change the cadence of the hook and take off Keri Hilson...shyt is like nails on a chalkboard to me compared to the og.....or on Mia X album, they couldnt use the stevie wonder sample so they got a generic ass beat for "You and Me"........Smoking Green not on the TRU album cause of the Isley brother sample... some of Biggie's songs got fukked up cause of samples...shyt like that

i still have all my cds and itunes library but it just sucks for the convenience of having everything in your phone

 

[jadillac]

Honestly I am happy to take the hit on getting shorter/ worse versions of a small % of songs for the convenience of not having to rip MP3 or keep CD players and shyt

I take OP's point. And if you're that way minded, you might wanna preserve all the originals

But I am not tryina do all that tbh

To each his own, but why ruin a CLASSIC song by cutting it a minute short in an era where song length/space is a non-issue?

More than likely this was a previous cd version uploaded to all the platforms, which they shorted the songs to fit on the cd

Still no excuse IMO. This is a diamond selling album...it should be preserved the way it was made

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Damn. Thanks! I hate streams.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Honestly I am happy to take the hit on getting shorter/ worse versions of a small % of songs for the convenience of not having to rip MP3 or keep CD players and shyt

I take OP's point. And if you're that way minded, you might wanna preserve all the originals

But I am not tryina do all that tbh

This isn’t a big deal to me at all.

If this is the reason to keep your CDs then I shrug