I use Lidarr (with Soulseek, via the Tubifarry plugin) to automatically download music for me and even though I’ve put lp and vinyl into the “must not contain” field on my release profile, I still notice the occasional vinyl rip in my library. God I hate vinyl rips. Is there anything more I can do to avoid them?
As someone who has never noticed, what’s wrong with vinyl rips?
I was just about to say, Vinyl is actually better quality than CD.
Demonstrably false. But some do like the added imperfections that vinyl adds.
Personally I think Vinyl sounds better.
I can often hear the crackles and I prefer to have music in the original quality, without it being passed through some analog format for no reason.
I can see how you wouldn’t want modern music in a vinyl rip, but what about older music whose vinyl release was its “original” release?
Old music doesn’t get re-recorded for digital releases, they pull it from the original master again, which is better and more authentic than vinyl.
I mean if you went to a concert would you want them to add hiss and pop to the performance so it sounds more like vinyl? Lol certainly you wouldn’t want them to intentionally worsen the signal-to-noise ratio
I like vinyl rips, for older music where vinyl is the best source if tape is not available. and I do like to have original versions alongside modern remasters where possible.
for new music it just seems like extra steps and it seems like there are more and more low quality rippers that have no idea what they are doing, have dirty records, and low quality gear.