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What about the concept do you not get? It's cheaper and has more selection than your music library.
by jamesaguilar 12y ago
What about the concept do you not get? It's cheaper and has more selection than your music library.
- auggierose 12y agoIf I like something, it is in my library. There is not that much good music out there, maybe 3 or 4 albums each year these days. I don't see how a subscription could be cheaper than just buying those albums.
- dkuntz2 12y agoFor you it isn't cheaper. For someone who listens to a lot of different kinds of music, and finds 12 albums (or even ~120 songs) a year that they like, it's about even either way. It can also be rather convenient: you don't have to load up all your music on a device, and if you ever feel like listening to something new, it's really easy to find. But if you're only updating your music library three or four times a year, it's not a big deal. You also probably didn't need to boot up a virtual machine every time you wanted to sync your phone... But that's a different problem. Streaming services also typically have a radio feature, where you can specify a song and say "play more things like this". Which I've found is both nice on the "just give me something to listen to" level and useful for finding new music.
- pgwhalen 12y agoMan, would I love to hear what the only 3 or 4 "good" albums were last year.
- auggierose 12y agoI can make you happy then, the last four albums I bought: "So", by Peter Gabriel, "Trouble Man", by Marvin Gaye, "Impending Joy", by Algorhythmical, "The Next Day", by David Bowie.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoGiven that 3/4 of these artists were active in the 1970s, and one has been dead for 30 years, I wonder if maybe you've considered that your musical opinions are not generally in line with those of the people who consume streaming music.
- gnoway 12y agoI guess it depends on where you buy the album and in what format. Last time I bought a CD it was still over $10, so anything that can give you variety at under $30/yr should be cheaper. The other nice thing about a streaming service is that you may get exposed to something you didn't know you liked. I was about to quote the annual Pandora One price as being less than the cost of 3 CDs, but evidently I missed where the annual option was nixed due to several increases in SoundExchange royalty rates.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoI buy a lot of CDs and they're about $13-$15, which is down from a few years ago when they were about $18. I've never really had good luck with music recommendation services, I always seem to get the safe recommendations from the priors.
- Roboprog 12y agoI appreciate the sentiment, and like to buy albums that really "click" with me. (not so much the one song at a time) But I like internet radio to find those albums. Local FM radio plays a very limited selection, vs streaming where I can hear really cool albums from 5 or 10 years ago that I would have never heard otherwise. That said, the author should probably consider streaming services as "advertisement", and try to sell recordings and concert tickets.
- yaur 12y agoAnother factor is that the incremental cost of listening to something new is $0. When I'm looking for something new I just move the Mog radio slider all the way to "similar artists" and wait for something new/interesting to pop up and from there can explore their entire discography if I'm so inclined.
- iand 12y agoHow do you discover new music without buying it first?
- jamesaguilar 12y agoSo then you do not understand that some people find more music in a year that they like?