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Looking at all the people I know and their houses, I'd say that collections are far more often a burden than a boon. I praise digital "all you can eat" style of
by cm2012 5y ago
Looking at all the people I know and their houses, I'd say that collections are far more often a burden than a boon. I praise digital "all you can eat" style offerings for freeing us from unhappy hoarding.
- Nursie 5y agoYep. Recently moved continent and wasn’t at all sure what to do with my CD collection. I mostly stopped adding to it over a decade ago, I have it all ripped but I barely ever bother playing those files because Spotify has basically everything and why bother? The only reason I didn’t dispose of them is because I think of them as a sort of physical license to the rips.
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- H1Supreme 5y ago> Spotify has basically everything and why bother? So you don't tether yourself to a single company that could change their terms/prices on a whim? Plus, unless you're streaming on their "very high" setting (320kbps), there's a noticeable difference in quality on half way decent speakers.
- dageshi 5y agoYou either tether yourself to a companies whim or you tether yourself to piles of physical stuff you have to manage for the rest of your life. Personally I'll take digital every time the choice comes up.
- nayuki 5y agoFalse dichotomy. You could rip all your CDs and scan all your books, and there's a good chance it'll fit on a single hard disk drive. Don't forget that digital storage technology density is improving every year, while books and CDs aren't getting any smaller.
- eloisant 5y agoThe one good thing about music streaming is that all the competitors pretty much have the same catalog. They have almost every music on earth, except the few remaining artists who decided not to publish to streaming platforms. So if you're unhappy with Spotify, you can switch to Youtube Music, Amazon Music or Apple Music and still find all your songs. I wish we could say the same of video (Netflix/Prime/Disney+/AppleTV/...)
- Nursie 5y agoI stream as good quality as I’m able, but honestly I’m not an audiophile by any stretch. I have a bunch of Sonos gear because I like the convenience. There are other companies who offer similar services, and they will fill a gap should Spotify fail.
- rchaud 5y agoI'd rather listen to my library on Foobar2000 than on an ad-ridden web app with an Electron wrapper. And by ads, I don't mean free tier ads, I mean Spotify draping their entire app with ads for a new Drake album, for free and paid users alike. https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/03/spotify-users-push-back-at-the-over-the-top-drake-promotion/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/03/spotify-users-push-back-at...
- Nursie 5y agoEh, I’m accustomed to ignoring suggestions on every platform, as my tastes are eclectic (which is not to say superior, I listen to some awful tripe sometimes), so that really didn’t register. Plus I often access Spotify via Sonos anyway so … yeah.
- mumblemumble 5y agoThere are collections, and also collections. The author isn't really talking about physical objects that accumulate around the house seemingly all by themselves. The author's talking about collections that are deliberately, lovingly curated as a labor of love. The difference is critical. It's not entirely unlike how I knit and sew purely for pleasure, while my grandmother did so because her family couldn't afford off-the-rack items. The physical details of the two activities might be similar, but what was actually happening there was radically different.
- cm2012 5y agoThe difference between physical hobbies and items though is big. My dad's best friend has a huge batman memorabilia collection. It's worth millions and has been lovingly collected over 30 years. He hasn't gone on vacation in decades because he's scared someone will steal from it if he's gone too long.