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> "But what have we lost?!" make a comment or thread about spotify/pandora/tidal and sit back and wait to see how long it takes for some “audiophile” to come a

by m1gu3l 4y ago

> "But what have we lost?!" make a comment or thread about spotify/pandora/tidal and sit back and wait to see how long it takes for some “audiophile” to come along and to admonish you and tell you a story about their setup and music appreciation “workflow” and how it is better and somehow more correct. we lost nothing. it is all still here. and, apparently, the added bonus of droves of sweaty people telling you you’re doing it wrong. life is grand.

pessimizer 4y ago
Looks like we lost the ability to go through a list of songs from an album, episodes from a podcast, or podcasts from a collection, which is the subject of TFA.
- sosull 4y ago
  Slightly beside the point, but it is a problem that just doesn’t afflict Apple Music: those folks seem totally happy to make the kind of software that plays albums in sequence. The true surprise is that a century-old function has become a differentiating feature.
javajosh 4y ago
You might reasonably call me a Luddite, but an audiophile? Not in the sense you mean. I don't claim I can hear expensive speaker cables (I got mine at Home Depot btw). Great gear from the 90's and 00's is available cheap, and it's great. It has buttons. And I don't have to pay someone to continue accessing my music and I can listen to music in an album centric way. Nor am I claiming I'm more correct (although I guess I'm pretty proud of having found a somewhat contrarian path to take the trade-offs I think matter most.) You want to listen to spotify on your phone and bt headphones - all of which is subject to decay, decay of money, battery, connectivity - meanwhile I'll listen to my library with wired components that run smoothly and no latency without drops or a monthly bill. You get all-in-one go anywhere convenience, I get old school tactile control. Neither of us is doing it wrong. But yeah, I like mine better which is why I do it that way (and I assume the same is true for you, unless you're a masochist, and if so I say great, keeping doing you.)
crtasm 4y ago
> we lost nothing. it is all still here. if you ignore the massive amount of music that hasn't been - or often cannot be - released on streaming services, maybe?

by m1gu3l 4y ago

pessimizer 4y ago

Looks like we lost the ability to go through a list of songs from an album, episodes from a podcast, or podcasts from a collection, which is the subject of TFA.

sosull 4y ago
Slightly beside the point, but it is a problem that just doesn’t afflict Apple Music: those folks seem totally happy to make the kind of software that plays albums in sequence. The true surprise is that a century-old function has become a differentiating feature.

javajosh 4y ago

You might reasonably call me a Luddite, but an audiophile? Not in the sense you mean. I don't claim I can hear expensive speaker cables (I got mine at Home Depot btw). Great gear from the 90's and 00's is available cheap, and it's great. It has buttons. And I don't have to pay someone to continue accessing my music and I can listen to music in an album centric way. Nor am I claiming I'm more correct (although I guess I'm pretty proud of having found a somewhat contrarian path to take the trade-offs I think matter most.) You want to listen to spotify on your phone and bt headphones - all of which is subject to decay, decay of money, battery, connectivity - meanwhile I'll listen to my library with wired components that run smoothly and no latency without drops or a monthly bill. You get all-in-one go anywhere convenience, I get old school tactile control. Neither of us is doing it wrong. But yeah, I like mine better which is why I do it that way (and I assume the same is true for you, unless you're a masochist, and if so I say great, keeping doing you.)

crtasm 4y ago

> we lost nothing. it is all still here. if you ignore the massive amount of music that hasn't been - or often cannot be - released on streaming services, maybe?