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Do I have to be the guy to say that I still listen to music as whole albums and store my music for offline? Artists in a lot of genres still release the album a
by toastal 3y ago
Do I have to be the guy to say that I still listen to music as whole albums and store my music for offline? Artists in a lot of genres still release the album as 'the music', where a song is like one chapter of the book and you wouldn't just read one chapter. I only stream during the discovery phase for new music and even then it's usually: one track good, okay then it's time to try the whole album. There has always been folks that prefer records to radio and it feels absurd to me that this would be going away.
- browningstreet 3y agoI think individually we all have the right/option to make our choices, but I'm speaking to the market makers. If you want to be a vinyl shop (Kagi, Bandcamp), go for it. But you're not going to be Spotify -- or the Apple Music Store ($0.99 per track, remember?) -- in a world of TikTok and bundled music platforms. And I have my personal version of vinyl, I listen a lot to soma.fm and Radio Paradise. It's very interesting to me personally how few other services like those really exist out in the world. There are things like DI.FM and Mixcloud, but I don't know anything else like Radio Paradise (music channels, forums, etc). I've scoured all the channels and platforms expose on TuneIn and the like, and there aren't quite as many variants as I would personally expect. So the niche music world isn't even as numerou$ as you'd want a long tail to be.