#my discogs scans

[royb0t]

#my discogs scans #mtv's amp #mtv amp #y2k #y2k aesthetic #big beat #breakbeat #breaks #acid #electronica #idm #digital hardcore #3d design #90s #neon #discogs #my scans #crucial listening

[7more]

Paramore, All We Know is Falling | x

#nine.txt #was browsing discogs and found these Gorgeous images #paramore #all we know is falling #awkif #physical media #not my scans

[skatalite]

#ash ra tempel #manuel gottsching #not my scan #pulled from discogs

[c0wboyjunkie]

scans from my copy of f# a# ∞, released in 2000

#godspeed you! black emperor #gy!be #gybe #seems pretty standard from what i can tell on discogs but the ones ive seen all have the train colors inverted #i guess thats pretty neat #also i couldn't get a great scan of the coin (images 5 and 6) but its pretty cool #the diagram actually still smells like paint. neat #also im pretty sure the scanner fucked up the first one but it looks interesting regardless #anyways. thought it would be neat to scan #my scans

[why-its-kai]

Scans of the cover, disc, back insert, and booklet from the 1997 album Akima & Neos by AKIMA & NEOS, released by Fandango Records, which includes the original version of the song "Sound Life" from the 1998 Trigun anime.

This album is also referenced in the Kaze Wa Mirai Ni Fuku single liner notes in the credits for its version of "Sound Life":

#my scans #akima & neos #akima&neos #tsuneo akima #sound life #music #cd #trigun #trigun 1998 #this is trigun adjacent enough im putting in the tags lol #i put these on discogs already #love the graphic design here the color patterns are so pretty #the whole album is really good i want to share the whole thing #doesnt seem to be online elsewhere

[soysville]

Jan Eggum's 1990 song "Ryktet forteller" translated into English and covered by Ylvis for the international market as part of the stage show Ylvis - en kabaret and sold as an EP at the show in 2001. It was released in neither the international market nor the domestic market.

As this CD was only ever sold as part of the show it has since only been available through the secondhand market, and at over 20 years old it's not likely to get easier to come by. There are no other official ways to listen to it, so I'm sharing this here as a form of preservation.

Track 1 - Rumour Says (Radio Edit) Track 2 - Millennium Party 2000 Mix (126 bpm) Track 3 - Stena Line Entertainment Edit Track 4 - Zamfir emotional dub mix Track 5 - Instrumental

You can get the FLAC and MP3 files here, as well as a 600dpi scan of the CD insert.

#ylvis #rumour says #music #i know the whole EP is on tumblr already but not the FLAC files nor a hq scan of the insert because... why would anyone... #it's also a bit tricky to find since the tumblr search changed #this post brought to you by my fear of disc rot and the person on discogs who was selling it for a reasonable price

[some-different-account]

wanna drop out of computer science degree and become some kind of archivist instead

#i have no professional experience but it is my passion #ill just put my discogs account on my cv and some photos showing how well i organise my collections of things #then ill show them my autism diagnosis as proof that i am passionate about this because i can call it a special interest #and then theyll show me the fancy scanners you use to scan book pages #and then ill stand there for 7 hours scanning thousand-page books and then regret my life choices

[leonardcohenofficial]

vinyl + turntable basic info / general tips

while i am by no means a real audiophile or vinyl expert here are some tips that have worked for me over my almost two decades of collecting!

turntables + speakers

do not buy suitcase players. i cannot overstate this enough. do not buy suitcase players. the all-in-one players are generally cheaper, but there isn't enough support from the platter because they are smaller than 12 inch LPs. this can lead to shitty sound quality, the needle can fall out of the groove, and you can actually break your records. save up and pay a little more and get a proper turntable

there is a lot of debate about belt vs. direct drive turntables (belt drive turntables use a belt to spin the turntable while direct drive turntables have the motor directly under the platter) and which is better. very generally speaking if you want better sound quality, belt drive is the way to go; if you want a player that's a little easier to use that's also a little more durable, direct drive is a better option (most DJ turntables are also direct drive, as a side note)

i currently have three turntables and they are all audio-technica, which is a well respected brand (especially for beginners)—i have an AT-LP60X ($149) which is a belt driven player, as well as two AT-LP120XUSB ($349 each) which i use for practicing DJing/selecting. i also have a stanton M.203 mixer (insane to me that it's listed for $350 on amazon, i paid eighty bucks for mine on ebay), audio-technica ATH-M20x headphones (they were a gift but are listed for $49 on amazon) and a set of edifier R1280DB bluetooth speakers ($149). the speakers are hooked up directly into my mixer, but because both the speakers and the AT-LP60X are bluetooth, i can also play records on that turntable too

change your needle! general rule of thumb is to replace your needle every thousand hours of listening; for the average person if you change it once a year you should be good, i'm on the cautious side and change them every six months

i really like my setup; it's on the cheaper side when it comes to "grownup" gear but true audiophiles would probably scoff at my basics. regardless of what you end up getting, a decent turntable that doesn't have the speakers built in that fits within your budget and a good set of speaker or headphones is all you need

buying records

any time that you can, i recommend buying vinyl directly from the artist! whether it's through bandcamp their website or at a show i think it's better to buy direct when you can (and often times it's cheaper than buying through a third party)

when you can, buy local. not only is it good to support independently owned shops, developing a relationship with local music people is great and if they're good they'll start to know you/your tastes. it also allows you to get good at crate digging, because you never know what you're going to find in a dollar section

utilize listening stations if the store has them! people can be pretty fast and loose with grading used records, so it's better to listen to it and see if the audio quality corresponds with the price (i don't always buy mint/nearly mint records and can tolerate a fair amount of noise but not if i'm being ripped off lmfao)

look things up on discogs to see if you're getting ripped off. not only is discogs great for keeping track of your collection (also you can friend me here!), the online marketplace is great for checking average sale prices for a given release. also handy for seeing how rare a release is!

buying records on discogs can be a crapshoot, ebay even more so. read seller's reviews; if there's feedback that they generally grade conservatively, that's a good thing

i have such a large collection that maintaining a record of what i have is really necessary; discogs is really fantastic for this. you can even scan barcodes on specific releases to find them through the discogs app! it's super handy for me as sometimes i forget that i have certain albums already and end up buying multiple copies and having to get rid of them (i need to get better at cataloguing immediately after i get new stuff, i currently have about forty five records i still need to add lmfao)

storing + maintaining records

keep your records clean! get a good cleaning kit and have microfiber cloths on hand to keep your vinyl as dust free as possible. also use those storage sleeves, it makes a different in keeping your records cleaner longer

a general rule of vinyl storage that i learned from the owner of the shop that i've been going to since i was nine years old is to store them in less than 70 degrees F environments with less than 70% humidity (funnily enough this is apparently the same rule for cigars)

i recommend those ikea square storage bookcases, as they're generally study, aren't too expensive, are pretty easy to put together, and hold a lot of records (do not store your records in milk crates long term)

actually listen to your records! there are very few releases i keep sealed for the sake of keeping them in mint condition. vinyl can be a very expensive habit (800+ records later i am living proof lol) but it's no fun to keep them sitting around. have fun collecting and play your music!

#vinyl #music #records #sorry this took a minute ben lmfao #also folks are welcome to share / please feel free to friend me on discogs!

[endlessdismalmoans]

地獄絵 [Jigokue] - 異形の快楽あるいは、廬世の夢 + Scans

Recently bought this rare gem of an album. The contents of the CD (lyrics, high-quality images, credits, etc.) are nowhere online so I hope all my fellow Jigokue enjoyers geek out over this.

Side note: Now that I have this CD in hand, I'll eventually update its Discogs page and add the lyrics and credits.

#my scans #地獄絵 #jigokue #chaos9 #rare10 #vkei #visual kei #kote kei #kote kote kei #v系

[royb0t]

h3llb3nt - 0.01 (CD, 1996, Fifth Colvmn Records). First release from Hellbent (more often stylized h3llb3nt). A stellar collaboration between Bryan Black (haloblack, Motor, Black Asteroid), Eric Powell (16 Volt), Jared Louche (Chemlab), Charles Levi (Thrill Kill Kult) and Jordan Nogood (Nogooddesign).

Love all of h3llb3nt's releases. Their first release sets a great tone for the band with post-coldwave, literal whispers of cyberpunk and the clinical sounds of the digital, balanced nicely with Levi's signature funky basslines.

For 1996, the artwork seems to hint toward the digital precision a la The Designers Republic (95's Wipeout game/compilation) and typeface minimal-but-messy like Tomato (Underworld's '94 LP Dubnobasswithmyhead). Stuff we'd call today probably early Y2K Aesthetic or maybe even a smidge proto-Metalheart. (Nogood's design spans all of h3llb3nt releases but also recognizable in album artwork for haloblack's '94 LP >Tension Filter< and 16 Volt's '96 LP LetDownCrush).

The music is just as excellent. Few artists or releases sound much like this. Highly suggest starting with "Chromed", "3 Murders, 3 Nights" and "Burnout", but the entire album is stellar as a whole.

#my discogs scans #h3llb3nt #Hellbent #0.01 #Fifth Colvmn Records #Bryan Black #Eric Powell #Jared Louche #Charles Levi #Nogooddesign #coldwave #industrial #post-industrial #y2k aesthetic #metalheart #highly recommended

[papayajuan2019]

i spent so many nights of my early to mid 20s looking at the artwork people would upload to discogs. album covers, back covers, lyric inserts, cassette scans, vinyl artwork. the pretty stuff, the fucked up art, the bootleg art. i would download them in one folder, carefully labeling the name file. i had an album artwork sideblog on my old tumblr account. whatever struck me would go on there. i want to go back to doing that

[bencastiel]

I came to your profile to check the new icon and now I'm staying here - it made me unable to can. This fuckboy Kevin just overwhelmed me 🤤🔥🔥🔥

relatable, anon! 🥴🫠

I was browsing discogs and I looked at one copy of bmiv and the seller had a tiny Pic of the booklet on the listing and my eyes instantly honed in on the Kevin tongue and then I blacked out and when I came back I had the order confirmation in my inbox 😂

I scanned the whole booklet at work today, will post them if enough people want me to :3

#wüv answers #wüv talks nonsense #anon

[fantastickkay]

Table of Contents

Magazine Collages - Mondays * Full page scans are tagged by the magazine name, year, and who is featured Album Reviews - Tuesdays Collection Spotlight - Thursdays Lost Media - Listening Stats - My Playlists

Social Media Links: Last.fm - Instagram - Discogs - Spotify Side Account for Reblogging

[why-its-kai]

FINALLY I HAVE (at least one version of) EVERY TRIGUN SOUNDTRACK !!!!!

I want to get the Geneon English releases of the First Donuts & 2nd Donut Happy Pack at some point (I know the 2nd Donut has radically different packaging & disc design vs the original Japanese one, and I'm fairly certain the First Donuts does as well based on the scan of the Geneon back cover on Discogs vs the Japanese one in my collection). And if possible, maybe a less faded/damaged copy of the Kaze Wa Mirai Ni Fuku single would be cool to own.... but still !!! so cool to have them all, and lucky that all the Japanese ones still had their obi with them after all this time (none of these were still factory sealed).

In chronological release order:

風は未来に吹く (Kaze Wa Mirai Ni Fuku) (single) / AKIMA & NEOS - April 22, 1998

Trigun The First Donuts / Tsuneo Imahori - June 24, 1998

Trigun: The 2nd Donut Happy Pack / Tsuneo Imahori - October 21, 1998

Trigun: Spicy Stewed Donut / Tsuneo Imahori (U.S. exclusive compilation album) - July 31, 2001

Trigun – Badlands Rumble – O.S.T. / Tsuneo Imahori - April 21, 2010 (which was my 16th birthday hehe)

#trigun #trigun 1998 #trigun 98 #trigun badlands rumble #soundtrack #cds

[notquiteaghost]

congrats on making a public inquiry on a line of interest situated in the middle of a venn diagram of like four things i've been thinking about a lot lately, your prize is this ask that is so long that in the time spent writing it and checking info someone less annoying may have directed you to some of it! this is all like easy enough to google but just in case it feels less uuhh to have someone with an approximate knowledge on some things offer you some pointers: here are some pointers

(i AM ALSO a thousands of CD's type of guy, but i've not done any big digital management of them since the last time i was regularly using ipods in the 2000s, n i am kinda Prepping for big digital management around my current standing main hyperfixation (participants of a season of an old korean idol reality competition show, a collection of Too Many Gotdamn People who have made Too Much Gotdamn Music) but i don't actually currently own a lot of the physical media there, so none of this are pointer from like. oh here is a workflow i am using etc, but)

answers to your two questions are 1) file sizes really depend on lots of factors but rule of thumb is that in a collection of 'normal song' mp3 file size averages out to 5-7MB a song, and a 3-4min mp3 file being >10MB is surprising

and 2) re: storage prices, 1TB (~1,000,000MB, so probably ~166,666MB 3min mp3's) in external harddrive will run at about £50 in western digital brands atm (western digital is what i've been occasionally looking at for my data management thing bc i've seen it mentioned specifically as more reliable than seagate, which i have had issues with; anecdotally, my mum's WD elements has lasted her about a year longer than her seagates kick the bucket). prices atm on curry's stack up at £80 for 2TB, £108 for 4TB, £180 for 8TB

refurbished is an option when it's 'rectified' and sold by the company itself; for WD, those prices atm stack up at £30 for 1TB, £35 for 2TB, £55-60 for 4TB (their page for these are https://www.westerndigital.com/en-gb/products/recertified) (i do not know enough about this area and would wanna look up specific reviews on a company's rectifying track record before purchasing myself, so obv do the same)

answers to questions you DID NOT ask but may have later on if you do set out on the CD Digitization Project that i have answered preemptively bc i am ANNOYING:

tagging music with correct info is often the most time-consuming part of this shit, so a tagger is your friend. the musicbrainz database should have a lot of stuff covered, so their tagger picard might well do (https://picard.musicbrainz.org/, also has some good plugins for like formating multi-disc albums etc if you wanna scan through those), but tagscanner (https://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm) can also pull from discogs if needed, though you may still need a discogs account + to make an api key do use that

i was like. spike will probably appreciate it if i provided ways in which their dad could still be autistic about music in a digital format, but i'm having a hard time pulling up music players that meet my vision / make it clear if they do re: you can see cd booklet, and also this info seems to not typically be in databases. i'll carry on looking for players in this area bc i ALSO want this, but suggested desktop windows players other than windows media player / grooveshark / vlc (which are all fine, but imo none are the most intuitive for regular heavy listening) are my best friend foobar2000 (https://www.foobar2000.org/, also has a tagger that pulls from musicbrainz and maybe discogs?), musicbee (https://getmusicbee.com/, tagger plugins available), and aimp (https://www.aimp.ru/); deadbeef (https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/) is created more to get your hands into with the technical stuff, but it's got custom metadata fields. really after you've looked to see if you think your dad would want a particular feature, unless space is a major consideration then it is just well what looks nicest.

file backup! backblaze (https://www.backblaze.com/) allows an external hard drive to be added in an image backup of a machine, which is the only good way to do a (pseudo-)sync backup without paying for cloud subscription or setting up a NAS etc; at $70/year it is obviously A Cost but way less than premium cloud drive subscription, so if it feels useful to know,

if the NAS mention / video at the end of that post wrt turning an old computer or laptop into a media server (so thing that is plugged into a wall that has files on it + a media player --> other computers / phones / etc on the same network (which can be outside the home too) can connect to that player and files) was interesting lmk bc i've also been looking into that a lot mostly as like, storage nerd aspirations, it's just a whole other thing that's irrelevant if you're more interested in just bunging stuff on an external drive (i've send this as an ask with the intent for you to keep it On File, so sent me another or a dm to lmk!)

you are not at ALL annoying you are a godsend!!!!

the thing abt my father is he is actually better at tech stuff than me (he ran his school's website & also michael's website, in the 00s, when that meant he built them from scratch) (he's still a little bitter abt his school outsourcing their website to whatever service every school uses nowadays. he used to add little falling snowflakes in the winter n april fools jokes n such), so yes i was very much anticipating saying to him like. find a backup storage method you like and i will do the legwork of actually ripping n sorting everything

i did NOT know taggers even existed but holy shit yes i will definitely need one. i do not anticipate him ever actually getting rid of his physical copies – smth he has already done is buy a ton of plastic wallets n move the CDs & booklets into them so instead of ur standard plastic jewel case taking up all that space it's effectively as thin as the actual CD – & also he no longer has a computer (i do not get this decision either. he just uses his phone????) so i doubt he'll need music player software. my thought is really 'he needs backups spare CDs and a CD writer so if any die they can be replaced'

however i will definitely look into the music player software, and maybe also forward this info to my brother (if it's even news to him, he's the kind of music autistic who has a £200 pair of headphones). thank you SO much <3

edit: just saw ur second ask n shdgdhd yeah i am gonna bookmark this post, my askbox is a pit things vanish into forever

#asks #fixion #long post #when i actually have disposable income again i am gonna buy myself a decent mp3 player #and then put on it the three dozen albums i listen to on repeat and also the murderbot audiobooks #and. well realistically continue to use spotify. but at least use less of my phone's battery on playing music

[snakefiguresfan]

The cassette rip of Little Deuce Coupe TV Dinners (2007) by Lamborghini Crystal has been uploaded. The rip is in 24 bit FLAC. I’ve noticed that there are two rips online of this tape, one is by the ever legendary channelsurfing, who unfortunately did not provide a download link. The other, is one made right when the tape was first released and has an obnoxiously muffled sound compared to the original tape. To add to this problem, the scans provided by channelsurfing are also not available besides as small images on Discogs, something which I’ve corrected here with my somewhat cleaner copy. This seminal work by Lamborghini Crystal (J.C Peavey and James Ferraro) is one of the most celebrated among the duo’s history, up there with  1992 Cool Runnings ‎ and Smoking Out His Majesties U.F.O. The former has been thoroughly archived and documented, whilst the latter remains extremely elusive and impossible to find (besides a crappy rip and no quality scans). Here’s hoping one day. The tape is an incredible wild ride, a real spiritual communication with carnies past, mixed with highly colorful vocals, filled with life and fun. Side B, oddly enough, is less than 10 minutes long and is more of an appendage to side A, although I find it to be just as essential in the album’s listening.

I have RE-RIPPED this album in what I believe to be the final, highest quality rip available on the Internet of this cassette. After almost a year of owning this tape, I believe I have successfully preserved every milimeter of it to perfection. Thank you for putting up with my junk rips from prior!

Enjoy!

Download some cortex-melting tunes from a psycho-freon carnival here!

#Lamborghini Crystal #James Ferraro #new age tapes #cassette rip #cassette