The Music Experience

How I Listen to Music and How it Could Be Better There are so many different services out there for listening to music; Spotify, iTunes, Youtube, Google Music, and Blogs, to name a few. There are flaws with each and every one of these. In this article I will try and outline the system I use for listening, discovering, and sharing my music and discuss how I think the system could be improved. What is the ‘Music Experience’? The music experience is how you experience your music. How you listen to your music, how you discover new muisc, and how you share music in your everyday life. The 3 Points of the Music Experience I think that the music experience can be classified into three general categories: Discovering Discovering music is the first step of the Music Experience. Discovering music is done in many different ways. Most people discover music through a few different means and find a method that they find simple and effective and stick to it. I would say that the most common ways of discovering music is through word of mouth (friends and family), media (TV, radio, magazines), and online music services(Spotify, Pandora, Youtube, Blogs). Listening Listening to music is by far the best part of the music experience. It is what music is all about; hearing and experiencing the music. There are also many ways of listening to music, most of which are online services. iTunes and iPods, Google Music, Spotify, Pandora, radio, and TV are all methods of listening to music. Sharing Sharing music is the part of the music experience that ties the ends together and makes the experience a loop, so to say. Sharing music with friends and peers by word of mouth and through services is how others discover music and how you define yourself and your music interests. Letting others know what music you like not only tells them something about yourself but helps to recommend music to your peers who have similar taste. To find out my recommendations on how to experience your music, support a new way of experiencing it, or to simply read more, check out: http://wp.me/p26nw8-p