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if you or your instance blocks my main, feel free to block me too
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@ocean @feld @lain and there's a 512GB model
@chemelia one can dream
@rats @Feddylain @cummies damn that is a real chonker of a track title
Is It Weird I Listened To "Im God" By Clam's Casino When I Lost My Virginity is the longest one I've listened to so far
@Feddylain @rats @cummies every Bandcamp subdomain is a netlabel
@Feddylain @cummies it was a big part of my childhood so i guess i just had an "im old" moment in thinking about how hard it is to convey what exactly was interesting about this notion at the time

anyway feel free to rummage through this endless mountain of garbage: https://archive.org/details/netlabels

even at the time, the idea of being able to release an "album" that was just (literally) you gargling along to elvis songs, saving it at 16kbps and putting it out on your friends netlabel because nothing cost anything was a neat exploration of creativity and distribution on the internet
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

boat loses all momentum the moment i realised
@aliasless @chj0 @rats yeah I always save as flac to my webserver and it has a special route for downloading a tar file of a directory with all lossless audio encoded to opus
@rats @wizzwizz4 @chj0 this website is inscrutable
@rats @chj0 there is also the Sound On Sound article about how to notice compression, which includes a zip file of audio so you can follow along, but I've been scared to do it because I don't want to be Cursed by the knowledge of Discerning Compression