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Trust the cloud? Hell I won't even purchase music that isn't on CD or LP. If my access disappears for whatever reason (hacked, I've posted something politically

Trust the cloud? Hell I won't even purchase music that isn't on CD or LP. If my access disappears for whatever reason (hacked, I've posted something politically distasteful on a linked service, whatever), even if I get it back, I could be a long time without my collection. I have however accepted that as a possibility (no matter how unlikely) with Steam as I don't really go back to play old games, but I expect the music I purchase to accessible to me for decades without question.

vinceguidry 8y ago
People look at me like I'm crazy for not giving in to streaming services and insisting on maintaining a music library. It's hard for me to avoid concluding that these people simply don't really enjoy music.
- culot 8y ago
  I don't think it's that, really, that streaming users don't really enjoy music, it's just that streaming services simplify things, removing the need to handle physical media. Never underestimate the warm, convenient glow of laziness that streaming services enable. I do think that there can be something lost when listening to an assortment of single tracks as opposed to cohesive albums. Getting a new album and letting it play all the way through definitely feels like a different experience to me than putting on a playlist of assorted tracks. With the prevalence of streaming music I wonder if more and more artists are abandoning the creation of cohesive albums? There's also the issue that, I think, that compressed audio files are particularly susceptible to bit-rot (perhaps compressed files of all kinds?). If you don't have a physical copy to re-rip from then you could well be boned.
  - skinnymuch 8y ago
    I only listen to albums with Spotify. I have over 100K listens on last.fm and 90% of it is with Spotify and listening to full albums. That doesn’t have anything to do with streaming. A lot of “casual” people are always going to go after singles mostly as soon as that’s available. I do think though since so many people don’t listen to albums anymore some shift will probably happen over time. Though it seems like nothing has changed too much yet and it has been a few years.

vinceguidry 8y ago

People look at me like I'm crazy for not giving in to streaming services and insisting on maintaining a music library. It's hard for me to avoid concluding that these people simply don't really enjoy music.

culot 8y ago
I don't think it's that, really, that streaming users don't really enjoy music, it's just that streaming services simplify things, removing the need to handle physical media. Never underestimate the warm, convenient glow of laziness that streaming services enable. I do think that there can be something lost when listening to an assortment of single tracks as opposed to cohesive albums. Getting a new album and letting it play all the way through definitely feels like a different experience to me than putting on a playlist of assorted tracks. With the prevalence of streaming music I wonder if more and more artists are abandoning the creation of cohesive albums? There's also the issue that, I think, that compressed audio files are particularly susceptible to bit-rot (perhaps compressed files of all kinds?). If you don't have a physical copy to re-rip from then you could well be boned.
- skinnymuch 8y ago
  I only listen to albums with Spotify. I have over 100K listens on last.fm and 90% of it is with Spotify and listening to full albums. That doesn’t have anything to do with streaming. A lot of “casual” people are always going to go after singles mostly as soon as that’s available. I do think though since so many people don’t listen to albums anymore some shift will probably happen over time. Though it seems like nothing has changed too much yet and it has been a few years.