Yes, it's and YouTube, Spotify and Pandora are pretty great, but hear me out. The fact is, no one has to buy recorded music any more. Most of it is available when and where you want it on YouTube for free.
You could also pay for a Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, or whatever subscription. It's basically a rental, which is really convenient, but also has its downsides. Based on my very unscientific polling on YouTube , Facebook and Twitter, the folks who buy and collect music are more likely to spend time listening without multitasking.
That makes sense to me -- they loved the music enough to buy an LP, CD or download, so their interest was more than casual. They have a deeper connection with music.
Many of the collectors who talked to me are adamant in their beliefs that subscription services are cheating artists. Rock icon Peter Frampton , for example, isn't exactly cleaning up with streaming services. Their jaws dropped and they asked me to repeat that for them. When I "buy" a digital copy of the music I am subject the terms and conditions or Apple or Amazon or whomever I get it from.
They dictate the terms of usage. In that sense I don't really own the music. It's more like a local rental of the songs. I "bought" a movie on Amazon a while ago. Percy Jackson or something. Watched it a couple of times with the kids.
No one has any interest in it anymore. So what can I do with it? Can I resell it? Can I give it to a relative who now has young kids? Can I leave it to my children? Uh uh. The "sale" of that item to me was fictional. It was a perpetual license that I have to keep track of. If Amazon "loses" that somehow, I have to remember that I had it, I have to provide some form of proof tha. I recall some time ago that Amazon removed books from the Kindle library that they deemed to be offensive for some reason.
All well and good Even if Amazon gives you a credit for the book I don't feel it is their right to reach in to my library and remove something. I will determine if the book is offensive, not them. This stuff happens all the time. I read the other day where there is a movement to rename John Wayne. There may be more comments in this discussion.
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Follow Slashdot on LinkedIn. An anonymous reader quotes BGR: Sales from individual song downloads have unsurprisingly been falling with no end in sight, thanks to the convenience of streaming options like Spotify and Apple Music. A new report, though, makes clear just how few people there are these days who will buy individual digital songs -- there are so few of them, in fact, that they were outnumbered in by people who went old-school and bought actual compact discs and vinyl records.
Last year? Meanwhile, that drop in sales has resulted in a lop-sided reality that harkens back to the pre-iTunes days.
The RIAA reports that "virtually all the revenue growth" for came from streaming music platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Tidal, which last year collectively added 1 million new subscribers every single month, and now have a record number of more than 50 million subscribers.
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted. Full Abbreviated Hidden. More Login. Indie music, indie platforms. Score: 5 , Informative. I've been getting way more into indie music genres, and by far my most used purchasing platform is now Bandcamp.
Any time I find a piece of music I want to buy, I always check Bandcamp first. Share twitter facebook. Re: Score: 1. Bandcamp came along at just the right time.
Independent musicians limped along on myspace for a few years until Facebook made things even worse. Bandcamp really did everything right with a DRM-free, artist-friendly business model that integrated Creative Commons licensing directly into the upload process.
It's entirely possible that it, like everything good, will eventually be slowly de. Re: Score: 3. It's about preservation Score: 5 , Insightful. Re: Score: 2. What presentation? CDs are a bit of ugly plastic that take valuable real estate space both at the store and at your home.
Remember the controversy of the "longbox"? Re: Score: 3 , Insightful. With rare exceptions my experience has been similar.
Let's all have a good laugh at. Buy then digitize Score: 5 , Interesting. Parent Share twitter facebook. Same thing with a player piano. Re:It's about preservation Score: 5 , Insightful. So I apologize, but you're full of it. Artificial aging studies in the past established CDs with years had a high probability of having bit-rot, or have I dreamed that?
Listen to mp3 forever. What is the issue here? What are are you failing to comprehend? My only question about all that is "how high were you when you posted that? I thought you wanted to listen to music Ha ha, yeah, it's lossy compression, certainly. Except when they don't anymore. For further information, look it up under "Apple deletes iTunes music", "Amazon deletes digital content on my Kindle", and so forth.
You will see plenty of examples of when this has happened before. Go ahead, I'll wait No surprise Score: 2. Re:No surprise Score: 5 , Funny. Most folks steam their music. Owning vs. Streaming Score: 2. When you own the physical copies, you can put the rips on your NAS and stream it to your heart's content without having to pay monthly fees.
Let's see them do that with my physical copies. And did I ment. Re:cheaper to spotify Score: 5 , Insightful. Re:cheaper to spotify Score: 4 , Interesting. I'm also older, so there's that. Old people don't spend as much on music. I've filled an Ikea Billy bookcase with CDs. To be accurate, two half height Billy bookcases. They are all ripped to mp3 and that's what I listen to.
And they are all insured house and contents policy. And FREE. If something I like disappears, then yeah I'll need to buy it. Can confirm, bought lot's of physical media in '18 Score: 3. Believe it or not, old school is back in my house. HiFi Berry looks really interesting, thanks for sharing that. Do you have any feedback after having owned it? Particular model you would recommend? Would you purchase again? I buy a lot of used CDs, Score: 5 , Informative.
Well if you want to do it to scene group release standards Of course for your own use you do. Score: 2. Known for a while Sales in general [statista. CDs, albums, online sales are duking it out to see who can be the winner of the irrelevancy segment. Rent e-stuff, buy real stuff Score: 3.
I subscribe to Apple Music which isn't a "purchase" but closer to rental. I find it is real fun to walk through old collections of 60s and 70s groups. I have purchased a very few items via download but there are still all sorts of fears and problems. You get the idea that the purchase is "in the cloud" and will be there forever but that's not true for a number of reasons. There are also issues with transfer of ownership as far as I know and generally there are problems with loaning folks your copy of something.
Get with the times Score: 2. Score: 4 , Informative. The first generation of CDs is already rotting and dying. Downloaded lots of nice songs to listen to in my shop.
Some of them are about 50 years old, and they sound excellent. I like to own the physical copy. I have quite a large CD collection and a lot of stuff on cassette tape that is not available on CD. I also have a Spotify sub. I find the Daily Mix function useful. Essentially, for me, a mix of formats except vinyl — those days are long gone does the trick…. This topic has 33 replies, 22 voices, and was last updated 3 years ago by zzjabzz.
Viewing 34 posts - 1 through 34 of 34 total. Has anyone else been in my position and got over it? Posted 3 years ago. P-Jay Free Member.
Whilst I have a lot of itunes music or well a fair bit. Lol Posted 3 years ago. DezB Full Member. MrWoppit Free Member. Happy days. CountZero Full Member. And made loads of space. I do not miss cds or LPs. I prefer to buy physical media. I download the songs onto my Samsung phone to listen off line. At least I hope I have.
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