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This looks ok, but I can't be the only person suffering Content Fatigue. Between access to infinite music, infinite movies and TV, infinite gaming, and infinit

This looks ok, but I can't be the only person suffering Content Fatigue. Between access to infinite music, infinite movies and TV, infinite gaming, and infinite news - and that's just leisure - I'm not sure how much time I have left for a finite life.

bowsamic 4y ago
That's really your responsibility
troad 4y ago
Run with the assumption that everything is always infinitely available, and become judicious with your attention. Boring podcast? Don't think twice, delete it. Good TV show, but not amazing? Move on, there's better out there. You won't even remember its name in a year. Book dragging on in the middle? Skip ahead. Every now and again you'll find something you want to give a chance to, and for those things do slow down, take it in. But don't waste that on any random thing just because it's new and being pushed hard by some giant media conglomerate. Or alternatively give it five-ten years before you engage with any cultural product. Time is a very effective filter for quality.
- falcolas 4y ago
  This is the way. It’s perfectly acceptable to bounce off a book after five pages. Off a podcast with poor production quality. Off a song after the first measure. Tastes differ, so don’t feel bad if you dislike something the zeitgeist adores.
  - ninkendo 4y ago
    Back when scarcity was a thing, the act of powering through with media you didn’t initially like was one of the primary ways of maturing your taste and learning to like new things. Only consuming media which hooks you instantly is a good way to achieve the media equivalent of a sugar-only diet. I don’t have an answer for this to be honest, it’s just an observation.
    - cpach 4y ago
      IMHO this is especially true for classical music, which is generally less approachable than pop music.
    - thewebcount 4y ago
      That's certainly one way to look at it. I see it a little differently. With video games, for example, when I had to buy a game to see if I liked it, I'd mostly just buy the big hits that a lot of people liked or smaller games that got wide critical acclaim. But with a subscription gaming service, I can try out any game on the service without paying an additional fee, so I'm trying a wider range of games in genres I don't normally play. I've found some real gems I wouldn't have even considered previously if I'd had to buy them first to really get to know them. The radio was like that before streaming services. Don't know if you like country music? Just pop on the country station when you're alone in your car and try it out. If it doesn't work out, switch to hip hop or classical, or alternative. Worst case, you wasted 5 minutes of your time while you were driving anyway. Best case, you have a new genre of music to explore! That said, I'm don't have ADHD and am heavily skeptical of anything coming from big corps, so I already aggressively tune out most things, so maybe it's not that easy for others.
    - falcolas 4y ago
      See, were this true, my mother (who didn’t have the internet at all) would have a fine appreciation for country music and dancing. Because those were mostly all she had while growing up; she had plenty of time to learn appreciation for both. Obviously she didn’t. My father in turn never picked up a love for the beetles nor reading. So, while appealing to our lamentations about “kids these days”, your hypothesis is flawed. People, even in times of media scarcity, still developed loves and hates. Evolving your tastes is much more intentional than just not having a choice.
      - ninkendo 4y ago
        You’re misreading what I’m saying. I’m not saying: You’ll like anything if you give it time. I’m saying: There are things that you may not initially like, which you will like if you give it time. Which means that if you never give anything its proper time, you’re likely missing out on things you may have otherwise learned to appreciate.
- hotpotamus 4y ago
  As a child, I did the same thing with my family because video games were much more entertaining. As an adult, this hasn't changed all that much.
LegitShady 4y ago
how much time dk you soend actively listening to new music? not having music on while youre doing something else but actively listening as your primary activity? most streaming music use is background noise. having somr music on, classical or otherwise, while im something else, doesnt lead to anu sort of content fatigue.
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rwl4 4y ago
To make things worse, they flood you with constant new content while you browse. It feels overwhelming to me. It's sort of an ADHD nightmare. With Apple Music, at least, I keep a clear distinction between my personal library and the rest of their offerings. That at least gives me a sense of shape and dimension to my library. To be clear, my personal library is a mixture of music I have bought and music I added from the AM library. To do this, I unchecked "Add songs to library when adding to playlists." This makes Apple Music not add every single song in every playlist you follow to your library. Now, I can browse my curated selection of music and playlists, OR I can play music from Apple's playlists, etc. When I discover an artist I like, I can then purposely add it to my library. I wish I could do this type of curation with Apple News and Apple TV.
joelfried 4y ago
I've noticed this feeling myself in the last year, and, honestly I've found it somewhat freeing by following this logic: 1. There is infinite content for me to consume. 2. I have a finite life. 3. Even if I spend my entire life trying, I cannot consume all content. 4. Since I cannot consume all content, there will be content that I will not consume that I would have enjoyed. 5. I want to spend my life doing some things other than consuming media. 6. Given 4 & 5, "I would enjoy it" is no longer a sufficient condition for me to consume some media. 7. Given 6, my feelings of FOMO have gone down considerably. What's to be afraid of, when there's always another product to fill the same "mild enjoyment" void?
imwithstoopid 4y ago
well good news...you can actually listen to pretty much "all" of symphonic music! yeah there is new stuff, but when we speak of "classical music", we're really talking about long-dead people Dvorak isn't going to be composing any new works, you can actually listen to everything Dvorak ever created and then you're "done"
- newaccount74 4y ago
  But people make new recordings all the time! I could listen to different recordings of Canto Ostinato all day, it sounds like a completely different piece if someone else plays it.
- pwinnski 4y ago
  There are 1,182 recordings of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" alone, each running close to three hours. If you listen for 16 hours every day, you can cover this one in under a year, on to work number two! :D
visarga 4y ago
Here come the infinite AI contents to top it off.
fundad 4y ago
not parents
cpach 4y ago
I wouldn’t reduce classical music to just leisure. It’s art, without which life would become meaningless. The enormous supply means that the act of curation becomes very important in today’s world.
ChatGTP 4y ago
Selecting a movie on streaming…
Cthulhu_ 4y ago
I'm enjoying it in moderation; the danger of all this is FOMO, thinking you have to keep on top on watching all the latest TV shows and whatnot. But for me personally, this has reduced by a lot in recent years, I'm like, I'll watch something when inspiration strikes me. Especially in recent years, it feels like the market is being flooded with content (especially TV shows) that SHOULD be hits, but just fall flat; a recent example is the LotR TV show, which, while pretty, doesn't seem to be the runaway success they were hoping for.
madeofpalk 4y ago
You don't have to listen to infinite music, watch infinite movies and tv, play infinite games, watch infinite news.

bowsamic 4y ago

That's really your responsibility

troad 4y ago

Run with the assumption that everything is always infinitely available, and become judicious with your attention. Boring podcast? Don't think twice, delete it. Good TV show, but not amazing? Move on, there's better out there. You won't even remember its name in a year. Book dragging on in the middle? Skip ahead. Every now and again you'll find something you want to give a chance to, and for those things do slow down, take it in. But don't waste that on any random thing just because it's new and being pushed hard by some giant media conglomerate. Or alternatively give it five-ten years before you engage with any cultural product. Time is a very effective filter for quality.

falcolas 4y ago
This is the way. It’s perfectly acceptable to bounce off a book after five pages. Off a podcast with poor production quality. Off a song after the first measure. Tastes differ, so don’t feel bad if you dislike something the zeitgeist adores.
- ninkendo 4y ago
  Back when scarcity was a thing, the act of powering through with media you didn’t initially like was one of the primary ways of maturing your taste and learning to like new things. Only consuming media which hooks you instantly is a good way to achieve the media equivalent of a sugar-only diet. I don’t have an answer for this to be honest, it’s just an observation.
  - cpach 4y ago
    IMHO this is especially true for classical music, which is generally less approachable than pop music.
  - thewebcount 4y ago
    That's certainly one way to look at it. I see it a little differently. With video games, for example, when I had to buy a game to see if I liked it, I'd mostly just buy the big hits that a lot of people liked or smaller games that got wide critical acclaim. But with a subscription gaming service, I can try out any game on the service without paying an additional fee, so I'm trying a wider range of games in genres I don't normally play. I've found some real gems I wouldn't have even considered previously if I'd had to buy them first to really get to know them. The radio was like that before streaming services. Don't know if you like country music? Just pop on the country station when you're alone in your car and try it out. If it doesn't work out, switch to hip hop or classical, or alternative. Worst case, you wasted 5 minutes of your time while you were driving anyway. Best case, you have a new genre of music to explore! That said, I'm don't have ADHD and am heavily skeptical of anything coming from big corps, so I already aggressively tune out most things, so maybe it's not that easy for others.
  - falcolas 4y ago
    See, were this true, my mother (who didn’t have the internet at all) would have a fine appreciation for country music and dancing. Because those were mostly all she had while growing up; she had plenty of time to learn appreciation for both. Obviously she didn’t. My father in turn never picked up a love for the beetles nor reading. So, while appealing to our lamentations about “kids these days”, your hypothesis is flawed. People, even in times of media scarcity, still developed loves and hates. Evolving your tastes is much more intentional than just not having a choice.
    - ninkendo 4y ago
      You’re misreading what I’m saying. I’m not saying: You’ll like anything if you give it time. I’m saying: There are things that you may not initially like, which you will like if you give it time. Which means that if you never give anything its proper time, you’re likely missing out on things you may have otherwise learned to appreciate.
hotpotamus 4y ago
As a child, I did the same thing with my family because video games were much more entertaining. As an adult, this hasn't changed all that much.

LegitShady 4y ago

how much time dk you soend actively listening to new music? not having music on while youre doing something else but actively listening as your primary activity? most streaming music use is background noise. having somr music on, classical or otherwise, while im something else, doesnt lead to anu sort of content fatigue.

deleted 4y ago

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rwl4 4y ago

To make things worse, they flood you with constant new content while you browse. It feels overwhelming to me. It's sort of an ADHD nightmare. With Apple Music, at least, I keep a clear distinction between my personal library and the rest of their offerings. That at least gives me a sense of shape and dimension to my library. To be clear, my personal library is a mixture of music I have bought and music I added from the AM library. To do this, I unchecked "Add songs to library when adding to playlists." This makes Apple Music not add every single song in every playlist you follow to your library. Now, I can browse my curated selection of music and playlists, OR I can play music from Apple's playlists, etc. When I discover an artist I like, I can then purposely add it to my library. I wish I could do this type of curation with Apple News and Apple TV.

joelfried 4y ago

I've noticed this feeling myself in the last year, and, honestly I've found it somewhat freeing by following this logic: 1. There is infinite content for me to consume. 2. I have a finite life. 3. Even if I spend my entire life trying, I cannot consume all content. 4. Since I cannot consume all content, there will be content that I will not consume that I would have enjoyed. 5. I want to spend my life doing some things other than consuming media. 6. Given 4 & 5, "I would enjoy it" is no longer a sufficient condition for me to consume some media. 7. Given 6, my feelings of FOMO have gone down considerably. What's to be afraid of, when there's always another product to fill the same "mild enjoyment" void?

imwithstoopid 4y ago

well good news...you can actually listen to pretty much "all" of symphonic music! yeah there is new stuff, but when we speak of "classical music", we're really talking about long-dead people Dvorak isn't going to be composing any new works, you can actually listen to everything Dvorak ever created and then you're "done"

newaccount74 4y ago
But people make new recordings all the time! I could listen to different recordings of Canto Ostinato all day, it sounds like a completely different piece if someone else plays it.
pwinnski 4y ago
There are 1,182 recordings of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" alone, each running close to three hours. If you listen for 16 hours every day, you can cover this one in under a year, on to work number two! :D

visarga 4y ago

Here come the infinite AI contents to top it off.

fundad 4y ago

not parents

cpach 4y ago

I wouldn’t reduce classical music to just leisure. It’s art, without which life would become meaningless. The enormous supply means that the act of curation becomes very important in today’s world.

ChatGTP 4y ago

Selecting a movie on streaming…

Cthulhu_ 4y ago

I'm enjoying it in moderation; the danger of all this is FOMO, thinking you have to keep on top on watching all the latest TV shows and whatnot. But for me personally, this has reduced by a lot in recent years, I'm like, I'll watch something when inspiration strikes me. Especially in recent years, it feels like the market is being flooded with content (especially TV shows) that SHOULD be hits, but just fall flat; a recent example is the LotR TV show, which, while pretty, doesn't seem to be the runaway success they were hoping for.

madeofpalk 4y ago

You don't have to listen to infinite music, watch infinite movies and tv, play infinite games, watch infinite news.