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How is this different from listening to an album on Spotify though?
by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
How is this different from listening to an album on Spotify though?
- bombcar 3y agoIt shouldn't be, but it is. The very act, the very ritual of starting a record playing changes the experience, even if everything else is exactly the same. You don't interact with music the same way.
- lostlogin 3y agoAlso see making coffee versus Nespresso. Although I like to tell myself that the old fashioned way is objectively better with coffee.
- v-erne 3y agoGreat example - my Moccamaster since I bought it few months ago is used ten times more than capsule machine that stands next to it. And I'm not sure if the coffe is really better - but it does not matter because the morning ritual makes the experience so much better, that I cannot imagine going back to capsules.
- Hoasi 3y agoCoffee capsules' business model relies on convenience to create unnecessary waste. Capsules of coffee taste worse and provide no improvement whatsoever. Why do this? Marketing creates a fake need, even though better solutions to brew coffee already exist. It's all about marketing convenience without innovation. You pay a higher tax for unnecessary capsule packaging, additional pollution, and waste.
- matwood 3y agoYes! I make pour over coffee almost every morning. It's a ritual where I take a few minutes of quiet and plan my day.
- stephen_g 3y agoI don’t think that’s a great example - with good beans and a good grinder and machine, you should be able to do miles better than Nespresso. Even the larger pod systems have quite a small quantity of grounds so tend towards over-extraction for a decent sized shot.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoSmoking a cigarette/cigar/pipe vs. slapping on a nicotine patch. People enjoy smoking because of many other elements besides the nicotine fix.
- travisjungroth 3y agoWith records versus streaming it’s interesting because the experience during the “main event” is nearly identical. Certainly closer than a book versus an e-reader or a cigar versus nicotine. It’s the entry and exit that’s different.
- KyeRussell 3y agoThe auditory input is the same…pretty much. Most other aspects of the experience are different.
- bombcar 3y agoThe fact it's a record and you can't pause/rewind keeps you less distracted. It really is a different experience even if you "simulated it" and had the machine play the right digital file once you loaded a particular record. It also completely gets rid of skips and shuffle-play. And a song can't "grow on you" if you always skip it.
- tuatoru 3y agoEspecially a pipe...scraping out the bowl, cleaning the pipe's stem with a pipe cleaner, tamping in the new tobacco. Some small rituals can be calming and centering.
- defrost 3y agoIn the case of many prog rock and similar albums of the late 60s 70s and 80s there are either significant (wrt to the pace of the audio tracks) 'silences' between tracks or no silences with fade out and fade in audio layers ... The digital versions of a number of these albums have 'clipped' tracks - with a sharp start point | end point and some arbitrary generic silence length (of 0 - N ms) between them. Seems like a minor thing but it is noticable to those of us that once listened to vinyl albums and the "between track" transition is arguably as much of the overall product as originally delivered as each individual track and track ordering.