{"id":2704,"date":"2011-02-09T13:41:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T20:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2011-02-09T13:45:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T20:45:56","slug":"youtube-videos-vs-downloads-vs-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2704","title":{"rendered":"Youtube videos vs Downloads vs Both?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/question_mark.jpg\"><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve noticed that a number of other oldskool related blogs have popped up since this one started and most of them embed youtube videos in lieu of posting actual downloadable mp3s.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve posted links to youtube tracks on rare occasions in the past, but am wondering if I should be doing that more often.   Either in addition to, or instead of full mp3 posts&#8230;.what do you all think? <\/p>\n<p>The way I see it, here are the pros + cons of youtube posting:<br \/>\nPRO:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Way faster and easier to post&#8230; I could be posting several tracks a day instead of taking time to rip every single track from vinyl.\n<li>Wouldn&#8217;t be constrained by the records I actually own (this hasn&#8217;t been a problem so far, but eventually may be&#8230; only so many records in my collection)\n<li>Legal fears assuaged a bit &#8230; i try to keep a certain level of obscurity in the releases I choose to post so that nothing will be for sale digitally, but you never know who might pop up annoyed&#8230;\n<li>Easier for other people to contribute \/ guest posts.\n<li> Makes it tougher for people to spin out or use the content posted for self-promotional purposes&#8230; obviously I&#8217;m happy when people download and enjoy the tracks here, but the notion of giving away tracks which people could put in a mix or spin at a club is a bit of a mixed blessing in my eyes since I&#8217;m such a vinyl purist when it comes to oldskool.  Not saying everyone has to care about that, but I do and I&#8217;m the one posting all this content \ud83d\ude42   Youtube posts sidestep this issue altogether and let me live in my weird hypocritical state of being a vinyl nerd who shares mp3s but secretly hopes people will still track down the records like he does.\n<li> Might prompt me to share some top top secret favorites (I already post lots of favorites but, you know.. my &#8220;secret stash&#8221;)  if I knew I wasn&#8217;t giving away a high quality spinnable rip every time.\n<\/ul>\n<p><B>CON:<\/B><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People seem to like the download option.\n<li>Less Committal&#8230;  anyone can get into a &#8220;youtube hole&#8221; sitting there digging through tons of obscure tracks without actually owning a single oldskool record, without having ever dug for tunes in a grimey uk record store basement, without having even gone to a real rave.\n<li>Youtube hosting the videos &#8211; youtube cancels accounts all the time,  people close their own accounts all the time, and when that happens all videos uploaded by that user get removed. So I could end up with pages full of dead links, articles with no music.  Right now I host everything myself, rip everything straight from vinyl so short of a global website takedown notice this content isn&#8217;t gong anywhere.\n<li>Quality on youtube can sometimes be crap. This is better now with higher quality video modes + I think they got rid of the forced audio normalization, but still..\n<li>Linking to other people&#8217;s content &#8211; when people host tunes, they can choose to disable embedding, or change it at any time.  <\/li>\n<li>Having to rip the tunes gets me more &#8220;in touch&#8221; with my collection and makes me dig for b sides of records I already have, instead of just grabbing endless new obscure record a-sides on youtube.\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I guess the options are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Keep it the way it is now &#8211; almost always just mp3s\n<li>Keep posting mp3s but also post youtube clips every day or so&#8230; put a different tag or category on them so people can choose what content they want\n<li>Switch primarily to youtube posts\n<li> Keep only mp3s on this site, create a twitter account to post youtube links regularly\n<\/ol>\n<p>IF you care about this at all, leave a comment below with your vote 1-4 and a quick explanation if anything you say isn&#8217;t captured above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that a number of other oldskool related blogs have popped up since this one started and most of them embed youtube videos in lieu of posting actual downloadable mp3s. I&#8217;ve posted links to youtube tracks on rare occasions in the past, but am wondering if I should be doing that more often. Either&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2704\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Youtube videos vs Downloads vs Both?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-blog-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}