All About Streaming Music Services

[AnotherSpin]

I'm not ignoring anyone. People are too conditioned and dependent, I can not have personal complaints against someone in particular -- only compassion and not much more. Including to all those in the enormous crowds pulsating to today's mechanical noise, which, however, is no different from yesterday or the day before yesterday. It is not about music only.

As for Swift, as I already wrote above, I have nothing to say about her. I tried listening a few years ago and several times since. I've never managed to make it longer than a minute or two. So I don't have enough material for scientific analysis...

[DavidW]

You know I was just teasing Madiel in a nonsensical way but I have a feeling that AS is being serious??, and this crazy debate actually makes me curious to listen to her music!

[Madiel]

Well this is what streaming services are great for, trying stuff out.

[AnotherSpin]

You know I was just teasing Madiel in a nonsensical way but I have a feeling that AS is being serious??, and this crazy debate actually makes me curious to listen to her music!

He is not to be teased as he is intolerant to opinions different from his. He is unable to embrace and endorse other's views, which is so arrogant and dreary in modern epoch of acceptance and inclusiveness. Very sad and no fun at all.

[Madiel]

I tolerate a range of informed opinions on many topics (admittedly it depends on the topic). It's the fantasies that depart from a factual basis I tend to have more trouble with.

Moving On.

[AnotherSpin]

I tolerate a range of informed opinions on many topics (admittedly it depends on the topic). It's the fantasies that depart from a factual basis I tend to have more trouble with.

Moving On.

You bragged about ignoring me. Where did the comment on my last post come from?

[DavidW]

I also had problems with Amazon Music and ended up going back to Qobuz.  If Apple Music is ever added to BluOS I will give it a shot.  But for now I'm done exploring.

[Madiel]

You bragged about ignoring me. Where did the comment on my last post come from?

It's taken me 4 days to find out you don't know what "mostly" means. 

[AnotherSpin]

It's taken me 4 days to find out you don't know what "mostly" means. 

"I only know what he said because you quoted it."

It didn't take me four days to understand what was written. But don't imagine I'm bragging that I'm an instant thinker, unlike you. God forbid.

[DaveF]

I see that all of Hyperion's song editions - Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Fauré, Debussy, as well as countless volumes of Schubert - are now available on streaming platforms, plus as Qobuz downloads.  Nice!

[DavidW]

I think I've decided to stop using streaming to just bounce around music endlessly.  I think I'll just use it to listen to my music when I'm at work, and focus on my cd collection at home.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I think I've decided to stop using streaming to just bounce around music endlessly.  I think I'll just use it to listen to my music when I'm at work, and focus on my cd collection at home.

Are you feeling like you were like a kid in a candy shop, i.e., not being able to focus on one piece of music at a time?  Or finding it too distracting while trying to work?

PD

[DavidW]

Are you feeling like you were like a kid in a candy shop, i.e., not being able to focus on one piece of music at a time?  Or finding it too distracting while trying to work?

PD

The first.  It never distracts me when working, if it were I wouldn't listen.  I only listen when I'm doing something low mental effort.

[Spotted Horses]

I think I've decided to stop using streaming to just bounce around music endlessly.  I think I'll just use it to listen to my music when I'm at work, and focus on my cd collection at home.

So far, I have not found streaming has influenced my musical habits in a bad way, although it is a big issue for some. I have read a few articles in the media, the gist of which is that in the streaming era the musical experience imposed on you is that you have a tap you open and music pours out continuously, over which you have little control. I could see how that could happen initially using Apple Music. You play one The Who song and all of a sudden you are transferred to virtual reality of classic rock. But then I noticed there is a check box "infinite play" and if you uncheck it, the music stops after whatever you have selected ends.

For classical listening, the main influence is that after I have listed to a piece I might poke around and sample various alternate versions that I might want to listen to next as a contrast. For instance, after listening to Grimwood's Années de pèlerinage I identified a dozen other recordings, briefly sampled half of them, and decided I'll listen to Angelich next. I didn't have to buy them all, or pick one blind. Ironically, I often stream CDs I own (losslessly on Apple Music) because I can't be bothered to find the FLAC files on my hard disk, and I figure "why not sent a few extra pennies to the record label?"

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The first.  It never distracts me when working, if it were I wouldn't listen.  I only listen when I'm doing something low mental effort.

Were/are you listening to/exploring a lot of different genres?  Just curious.

PD

[AnotherSpin]

I think I've decided to stop using streaming to just bounce around music endlessly.  I think I'll just use it to listen to my music when I'm at work, and focus on my cd collection at home.

Sounds like a criticism of the idea of unlimited consumption. You would probably enjoy living in the USSR. A dozen composers, three or four conductors, endless repetition of the same humble repertoire of several symphonies. The wealth of having no choice (I'm almost not kidding, choice is only an illusion).

[Spotted Horses]

Sounds like a criticism of the idea of unlimited consumption. You would probably enjoy living in the USSR. A dozen composers, three or four conductors, endless repetition of the same humble repertoire of several symphonies. The wealth of having no choice (I'm almost not kidding, choice is only an illusion).

There is something to it, but you take it too far, in my opinion. It is a well known experience that people who settle in the U.S. (and not just from the Soviet Union) find it disconcerting to go to the supermarket and find, for instance, an entire wall of toothpaste. Too many choices and they are all the same (maybe two categories, with and without fluoride). It is disconcerting even for a native of the U.S. like me. But being able to choose from dozens of recordings of Mahler's 9th symphony at no marginal cost does not cause me any inconvenience or stress.

[Todd]

Too many choices and they are all the same (maybe two categories, with and without fluoride).

Four categories: with/without fluoride; with/without whiteners.  Intangible product differentiation must flourish so that marketing folks stay employed. 

[Spotted Horses]

Four categories: with/without fluoride; with/without whiteners.  Intangible product differentiation must flourish so that marketing folks stay employed.

Do whiteners actually whiten?

[Todd]

Do whiteners actually whiten?

I don't know.  The ads say they do.  Some chemical or another is included, or maybe not.