{"id":40135,"date":"2024-04-20T11:55:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T16:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40135"},"modified":"2024-04-20T11:55:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T16:55:41","slug":"pendulums-swinging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/04\/20\/pendulums-swinging\/","title":{"rendered":"Pendulums? Swinging?"},"content":{"rendered":"

WaPo<\/strong><\/em> has a report<\/a> on an old technology:<\/p>\n

Music fans may love the immediacy of streaming music, but that hasn\u2019t stopped them from bringing vinyl records mainstream. Revenue from vinyl jumped 10 percent to $1.4 billion in 2023, and outsold CDs for the second time since 1987, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Back, back to the farm!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

I always found vinyl to be annoying, from scratching to warpage to maintenance, and, after my fairly good record player was stolen, I was happy enough to be rid of my paltry vinyls and go to only CDs.<\/p>\n

Is the quality advantage of vinyl over CDs really that discernible? I don’t doubt that it’s better than streaming and radio, or, if I may shudder in public, 8-track<\/em><\/a>, but is the digitization inherent in CDs really that recognizable? I know my Dad claimed to know people who could discern virgin vinyl from vinyl played once or twice, but not me, so it’s no surprise that I can’t discern it.<\/p>\n

Or is it the greater tangible footprint of vinyl? Streaming means, as most of us know, no tangible artifacts, as well as paying for each repetition. Having a CD is one sunken cost and<\/em> a medium sized artifact, the jewel case<\/em> if memory serves. A vinyl record sits between – a sunken cost that degrades with each play. And a bigger artifact with room enough for art and<\/em> sheets of protective paper hanging out, to boot.<\/p>\n

A romantic return to an earlier age where the environment is not in such perilous condition, where the dangerous impact of environment-deniers, of election-deniers, of people who isolate themselves from the real world through their horrendous hooting?<\/p>\n

Probably contributions from these and a dozen other factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WaPo has a report on an old technology: Music fans may love the immediacy of streaming music, but that hasn\u2019t stopped them from bringing vinyl records mainstream. Revenue from vinyl jumped 10 percent to $1.4 billion in 2023, and outsold CDs for the second time since 1987, according to the \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40138,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40135\/revisions\/40138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}