In any format? I prefer to buy video games physically and have a respectable book, VHS and vinyl record collection. Though the majority of my music and video-based entertainment are digital.
In any format? I prefer to buy video games physically and have a respectable book, VHS and vinyl record collection. Though the majority of my music and video-based entertainment are digital.
I think nowadays MP3s are physical media.
(And technically they’re stored on a physical medium in your possession).
I guess it’s no different to a CD really. Just a smaller file on a bigger storage medium.
Well, MP3s are lossy compression so from a technical standpoint they’re very different from CDs.
If anything, FLAC files are closer to CDs than MP3s are because those are lossless, and of course WAV rips are raw, uncompressed rips similar to what you’d get with DAT.
No, but MP3s are closer to MDs or DCCs in that those are also lossy compression, with literally being an evolution of the codec DCC used (MP1) while MD used Sony’s homegrown ATRAC codec, than they are to CDs, while FLAC is lossless so it should be the same as a CD with WAV or AIFF rips literally being an uncompressed copy of said CD.
Yeah that’s my bad. You are literally correct. I was meaning more figuratively and going with MP3 as a general term rather than the format specifically.
That’s fine, I’m just nerding out.