r/VinylMePlease

Hey everyone. I’m a solo developer in Melbourne, Australia. Vinyl counterfeiting has been getting worse — UK police just seized 6,498 fake records worth £260K — and there’s no digital tool to help collectors check before they buy.

So I built one. It’s called Vinyl Guard. You take a photo of the record label, the AI analyses it against authentic references — checking label colour, typography, print quality — and cross-references against a database of known counterfeited records including Beatles, Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Blue Note pressings.

You get a genuine or counterfeit verdict in about 30 seconds.

It’s not perfect — accuracy improves with more data — but it’s the only tool like this that exists. I’ve already been in discussions with the vinyl industry’s trade association about partnership. Would love honest feedback from actual collectors. You know more about vinyl than I ever will.

vinylguard.pro

$2.99 per scan. No app download. Works in your phone browser.

A big change is coming to this subreddit.

The moderator team and I have decided to shift the focus of this subreddit so we can protect people and warn them of the scam that is VMP in its current form.

I am giving you guys a heads up as the changes could potentially be drastic.

I was just listening to to some of my old VMP stuff and I went to look at what they had going on now and stumbled into some dumpster fire of a website that absolutely SCREAMS "SCAM!!!"
On top of that...there's a HUGE record store a block or two away from me. The guy that owns(ed?) it had been in the neighborhood since the 70s. I mean the store is absolutely jam packed with records, but the owner (past??) refused to sell anything new. He only sold used records.
Looking at those pictures, it looks like the new VMP owners may have bought that store.
Are they producing good pressings now?? I saw the NWA thing...I mean there isn't a record plant anywhere near here.

Hi everyone, my name is Juancruz. I have a question about the best way to listen to Aphex Twin on vinyl. I’m going to buy my first setup soon and I need some recommendations.
Is this gear good enough to start with?
• Speakers: Edifier MR4
• Turntable: Audio-Technica LP60X
My budget is around 300-400 USD. Does anyone have any suggestions or better alternatives? I’m from Argentina, so for my bad english!

Maybe I'm really late to this, but I was a longtime VMP subscriber that cancelled right before the bankruptcy when my swaps weren't being honored. Checked back in to see what was going on and noticed the diatribe on the website that's ant-AI but it looks like it was completely written by AI! Complete with tons of m-dashes. There's literally a line, "The giants of music tech force-feed AI into every corner." I ran it through a few different software and it came back estimated 100% AI. This is really pathetic and weird they'd lazily create a whole anti internet and AI rant using AI. Anybody else notice this? Never rejoining. Which sucks because I loved this club early on.