3 ms·

I am utterly old school in that I only buy my music on CD. I've got about 1,100 CDs in my collection, all ripped into a lossless format. The problem for me wit

I am utterly old school in that I only buy my music on CD. I've got about 1,100 CDs in my collection, all ripped into a lossless format. The problem for me with streaming is that you never know if that album you love to stream will still be there on the streaming service, or whether the rights have expired and it's now gone, whereas once I've bought and ripped the CD, I can play it forever. Some of my CDs are over 30 years old, when you consider the cost of purchase, and the number of times I've played those tracks over those years, that's amazing value for money. Streaming also has variable audio quality, at least with my CDs I know I've got a standard quality, mastered for playback on a proper music system, and not optimised for headphones, or computer speakers. So streaming maybe convenient, but it's definitely not for me.

puranjay 9y ago
While I stream a lot, I also like to buy vinyl records. I love the physical act of putting on a record, sitting back, and listening to the whole album. The fact that I can't skip a track makes for much better deep listening. I like streaming for discovering new music. There's no Spotify in my country, but Google Music is pretty good (and extremely cheap - it's like $1.5/month). Surprisingly, the best new music I've discovered has been through YouTube recommendations. Never would I have imagined that my favorite new song would be from a Thai-English band (The song in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTBPPSNGYi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTBPPSNGYi8)
bigiain 9y ago
About 3,500 albums on vinyl, and just over 6000CDs last time I counted. These days I pretty much stream everything - even the stuff I own and have ripped on my home network. I still buy vinyl and cds - but almost always directly from artists at gigs or from their own websites, and less often in 2nd hand record shops/markets. I love owning the objects with music on them. I just don't actually use them very often... (obligatory snarky reaction: "CDs??? _Old school?_ Please..." ;-) )
- Jaruzel 9y ago
  I bow down in envy at your collection. :) What are your preferred musical genres?
  - bigiain 9y ago
    Pretty much everything except country and show tunes. And I'm softening on the country lately, kinda enjoying a fair bit of alt-country and sad-core... Still can't get into the "YeeHa! My wife just left me, my dog die, do si do your partner girl!" kind tho... (Oh, and don't envy it _too_much, it's mostly a result of me being _old_...)

puranjay 9y ago

While I stream a lot, I also like to buy vinyl records. I love the physical act of putting on a record, sitting back, and listening to the whole album. The fact that I can't skip a track makes for much better deep listening. I like streaming for discovering new music. There's no Spotify in my country, but Google Music is pretty good (and extremely cheap - it's like $1.5/month). Surprisingly, the best new music I've discovered has been through YouTube recommendations. Never would I have imagined that my favorite new song would be from a Thai-English band (The song in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTBPPSNGYi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTBPPSNGYi8)

bigiain 9y ago

About 3,500 albums on vinyl, and just over 6000CDs last time I counted. These days I pretty much stream everything - even the stuff I own and have ripped on my home network. I still buy vinyl and cds - but almost always directly from artists at gigs or from their own websites, and less often in 2nd hand record shops/markets. I love owning the objects with music on them. I just don't actually use them very often... (obligatory snarky reaction: "CDs??? _Old school?_ Please..." ;-) )

Jaruzel 9y ago
I bow down in envy at your collection. :) What are your preferred musical genres?
- bigiain 9y ago
  Pretty much everything except country and show tunes. And I'm softening on the country lately, kinda enjoying a fair bit of alt-country and sad-core... Still can't get into the "YeeHa! My wife just left me, my dog die, do si do your partner girl!" kind tho... (Oh, and don't envy it _too_much, it's mostly a result of me being _old_...)