Issues with records (good or bad, lol):

1. No shuffle play!
2. Can't set a playlist and walk away, you have to change the record.
3. No rewind to beginning of track.
4. Some old records skip
5. Not the medium for dusty or sunny environments
6. Not supporting terrible oligarchs and Joe Rogan with your streaming choices
7. No mid-record commercials interrupting your track ala YouTube
8. There is one order and one order only on listening, which is what is pressed into the vinyl
9. Medium and player is NOT SMALL
10. Can't play records in a moving vehicle
11. Need to think about what the next record you want to play is, otherwise you have a large gap in your music environment
12. Can't (easily) press your own records
13. No one tracking all your plays and clicks and ad preferences for future ingestion by the all knowing AI slop machine
14. No AI slop music
15. Very hard to give your friends a copy of a song.
16. Jogging with a record player in your pocket doesn't work.
17. Best way to stay on the cutting edge of the 1960's and 1970's emerging sound scene and "new" artists you have never heard of.
18. Fidelity is... interesting. It's like running all your digital tracks through a unique filter where the music is first pressed onto an obsolete medium, then read back through a vibrating needle on a rotating drum, which is subject to vibration by the music itself and occasional external influences, and then pushed through a speaker. THE VINYL FILTER
19. How the heck are the billionaires supposed to make money from people using old stuff? BUY NEW STUFF! BUY! BUY! BUY! BUY! ITS YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY TO CONSUME! /s
20. Finding records is somewhat difficult. Not a lot of sources. In this area, vast amounts of the types of records floating around most are terrible white suburban Time Life record compilations and religious music.
21. Prices for Vinyl in the LA area are very inflated, esp. in LA itself (trendy hipsters driving up the price, I think).
22. How is Jeff Bezos Supposed To Make Money If You Aren't Subscribed To Amazon Music? Huh?!
23. Who is this Englebert Humperdink guy, anyway, and why does everyone have his album? 🤪

(Anyway, enjoying this very much, lol)

#records #LPs

@ai6yr

Well depends on what you mean by rewinding. You can see where the song starts based on the smooth ring from the soundless space between songs.
You can just lift the needle arm and move it to the start of the song.

I think this is why ppl often had the turntable right next to the best chair in the house, so someone could curate the listening experience.

@ai6yr @MCDuncanLab
A lot of hit singles are the first or last tracks on LP sides to make them more attractive to DJ’s because of this

Also, the different areas of the record have different fidelity because the needle moves at a different rate in the groove as it nears the center of the disk

So I think the highest fidelity is at the end of each side? I forget

They’ve apparently lost a lot of the art of balancing for this when they master new vinyl releases