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I see very distinct music activities: - Discovering new music (Hype Machine, Sound Cloud) - Recommending music to friends (Last.fm, sending a YouTube link to
by snikolic 15y ago
I see very distinct music activities:
- Discovering new music (Hype Machine, Sound Cloud)
- Recommending music to friends (Last.fm, sending a YouTube link to a friend, etc.)
- Active listening (building a playlist on Spotify or Rdio or Rhapsody; buying/pirating music and manually managing it in iTunes, Goole Music, Amazon CloudPlayer, etc.)
- Passive listening (Pandora, Turntable)
Some services blur the lines between these activities, but I don't think any make a serious attempt to satisfy more than two of these use-cases (and probably with good reasons). As a result, I think many folks use more than one service.
Consequently, what I'm more interested in is why you use the services you use. What makes you boot up Spotify one morning and Pandora the next? Do your activities seem to fall into the buckets I described, or are my assumptions completely off? And if my assumptions are somewhat accurate, what percentage of your time do you spend on each type of activity?