Del monaco
Del Monaco
They all have their merits. Just enjoy the music you have access to.
Streaming puts less plastic in the ocean......that's a big enough argument against all plastic media.
...must buy a streamer...
That’s a fair point about the dependency on broadband, but were that to happen to me I would still have all the rips of the CDs I have bought, and the downloads I have bought, to keep me going. And Qobuz lets you have a few thousand tracks in a local cache for offline listening, so I could easily last 12 days! And what better time than lockdown to get round to ripping your cd collection!In 1990 I heard the same arguments about vinyl.
At the end of the day there are always going to be people who want to own physical media, it will be a small minority, but it will always be there. SDE is a site fully focused on box set/limited edition physical media and is doing very nicely. There is a market.
Yes streaming is great until, like me in lockdown 1, you lose your broadband connection for 12 days. I think a happy mix of old and new is fine. I have vinyl, CDs and stream occasionally when working, but I prefer CD overall.
Alternatively, buy downloads from sites like Bandcamp. 90% (I believe) goes to the artist (or the label), except on free Fridays when it's 100% It also enables artists with no resources to get their music heard. Today I bought "Music from Saharan WhatsApp 10", recorded on cellphones, and transmitted by WhatsApp to the label and offered as pay what you want.b) If you care in the slightest about the artist and their ability to go on creating then buy the physical media,
And digital isn't?Vinyl isn’t a copy! It is a compromised approximation.
Streaming does nothing for me.
I use Spotify Premium in my car or for casual listening, when I have guests for a meal for instance. I also make compilation CDs.
I want something that I can handle, and which makes me purr.
CDs and records are still where hi-fi’s at for me. I guess that tells my age...
Agreed, that's why I have kept Spotify premium. I must admit the CDs are taking up a lot of space, but not as much as my vinyl!With streaming I can try out music I probably wouldn't buy. If you are only going to listen to something once it doesn't pay to buy. CDs also take up space I would struggle find.
Not unless you are considerably older than me. I'm 72.CDs and records are still where hi-fi’s at for me. I guess that tells my age...
i can think of a fair few people, all a few generations younger than I where this is not a topic worth discussing. All their music met by streaming, either from a streaming service or internet radio.
To both of these points; it's not your CD collection vs 50 million tracks, it's what is available to you. Streaming services have big gaps in their catalogues, each one being different. I have over 30 albums by a few artists (sad, I know) where the streamers have a fraction of that. So they control your musical choices. No use searching their back catalogues; it's not there! I have noticed Qobuz has more world music, for example, than some others.50 million tracks + your CD / file collection vs just your CD collection. For me it’s a no-brainer!