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Patitucci Albums….They Gone!

jjk2007

jjk2007

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A little while back I jumped on iTunes to do some of my regular JP listening. I did my quick search for his 'Mistura Fina' album….and nothing. Then went to his overall artist page and noticed all of his earlier albums except for 'Heart Of The Bass' and 'Another World' are all gone. Not in the store for purchase either. As far as I can tell they are not on Spotify now either. Not sure how iTunes all works out but I'm bummed. JP is the about the only bassist I listen to! Guess I should have kept my CD's!! Anyone know what would have caused this. I'm not the sharpest tool in the drawer….
 
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Sometimes they take things out of print and then re-release remastered or anniversary editions. It could also be the recording masters are reverting to John himself and they haven't worked out distribution yet.
You probably can still find them on YouTube though.
 
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jjk2007 said:
True. I believe I have a hard drive somewhere that has a ton of my old CD's on it. A few years ago, I went through the process of copying them over via iTunes. It was a long process but I'm sure I put all of my JP catalog on there.
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I'd be careful with that, I've had Itunes delete a lot of music I loaded from CDs I owned, from my Itunes "library". If I didn't still have the physical media of that music, I would not have been happy.
 
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jjk2007 said:
True. I believe I have a hard drive somewhere that has a ton of my old CD's on it. A few years ago, I went through the process of copying them over via iTunes. It was a long process but I'm sure I put all of my JP catalog on there.
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Mistura Fina was one of the first CD's I bought not too long after it came out, back when Best Buy actually had good music on the shelf. I had that CD (and many other rare/out of print jazz CDs collected over several decades) until 2014 when my truck was broken into and my collection stolen. I had most of those CDs also stored on a hard drive.

Unfortunately, the HD bit the dust and now I have almost nothing left of the collection that I started as a teenager, though it wasn't for lack of trying to preserve what I had. I should've used an SSD, but those weren't as accessible when I was copying all those CD's as backup.

Anyway, I've missed out for the last 10yrs on much of the music I grew up learning. It's a real shame, IMO.
 
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jerry said:
I'd be careful with that, I've had Itunes delete a lot of music I loaded from CDs I owned, from my Itunes "library". If I didn't still have the physical media of that music, I would not have been happy.
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I didn't even realize this was possible. They seriously managed to delete music you had purchased on CD and loaded from the physical discs?!?! Would this remove even from backups of your library?!?!
 
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Fortunately not pulled from my Tidal and/or Qobuz accounts, as cataloged in my Roon server.

Got 600 CD's as backup though - just call me old-fashioned :)

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Just checked Spotify and I agree, everything earlier than 1992 is gone. Which includes "Sketchbook," one of my favorites. Durn.

I have a USB chip in my truck with a lot of old stuff on it, so I'm cool in the car. Otherwise, how unfortunate that I won't get to geek out to "Scophile" here and there.

In related news, all the Chick Corea Elektric Band stuff has been gone for a few years now, except "To The Stars" which I did not love. I assumed Chick, rest his soul, was anti-streaming and wanted to move to some kind of artist-direct thing he never got off the ground. It was annoying to me, because I'd actually bought all those albums on CD already.

Pointing in the other direction - Janek Gwizdala made a HUGE deal a couple years ago about leaving streaming services and only ever releasing new material by direct download. He cajoled me into buying his 2022 release "One Way Out" like that, and it ended up being a different style of music than anything he'd ever done before and kind of sucked. I listened to it once and forgot about it. But I just looked at Spotify and there it is.
 
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lowfreqgeek said:
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Unfortunately, the HD bit the dust and now I have almost nothing left of the collection that I started as a teenager, though it wasn't for lack of trying to preserve what I had. I should've used an SSD, but those weren't as accessible when I was copying all those CD's as backup....
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One should never ever ever store data on "a" hard drive ( or on "an" SSD, either).
The correct way to store data is on a RAID array. That way when one of the RAID drives dies ( AND IT WILL, EVENTUALLY ) ...you take it out, pop in a new drive of the same size or larger, and the array will rebuild itself.

this is virtual digital immortality - as (barring fire or flood or earthquake) the odds of two drives failing at the same time are infinitessimally small. I recommend EVERYONE should have a Invalid Link Removed in their home, for storage of all sorts of digital data.

At the very least, one of those [This invalid link has been removed] (LaCie, etc) , but my preference is at least a 4-bay NAS configured as a RAID10 array...
 
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I'm quite surprised how many artists don't have a direct download or CD purchase option on their websites these days.
Probably the only time I get to listen to full albums is on road trips which in the South Island of New Zealand means that you have zero data available for long-ish stretches. I like to have my music on a usb drive, hit play and just let the albums play. I also like to have my own copy, even if they are just MP3's, in the event that the artist pulls their stuff off Spotify.
 
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