I personally love my collection (records, CD, digital) and enjoy sharing the experience with friends. I don’t use streaming unless you count soma fm at work. Sure, I’ll use YouTube to listen to some albums I don’t own, but if I truly like it I’ll buy or download it, usually on bandcamp or direct from artist if I can.

For me, I don’t believe the human brain was ever made for this level of stimulation (we shouldn’t really have 24/7 access to social media either. Go back to the “family PC” model). People have very little connection to music anymore becuase there’s too much and its too easy to access. I can barely remember all the members names in my favorite bands or all their albums. There’s little chance anyone even knows the artists of the millions of songs they’re streaming, or the story behind them.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    7·
    11 hours ago

    There’s definitely truth to that and I’m currently building up a local library of music to put on my dedicated music player.

    On the other hand, I do like the ease of discovery with streaming. I didn’t listen to a lot of music in the pre-streaming days, because the only easy way to discover artists was by listening to the radio, which was mostly music I didn’t love. I have to admit that I only found much of the music I now like thanks to streaming.

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksOP
      3·
      11 hours ago

      Understandable. I prefer the more human ways of discovering a lot of the time…buying random albums to see what they are, talking to friends about what they’ve liked recently , reading liner notes to see who produced or mixed and album and seeking out more things theyve produced (streaming ruined this, because you get zero liner notes now and no one gets any credits), going to shows to hear new music etc. Thats all part of what makes it so fun vs the al gore rhythm telling me what to like.

      • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        I like my collection - so I don’t mind having my collection randomly played back to me - some songs more often than others, sure, but it’s really nice to have some song you haven’t heard in months just start playing without having thought about it. I also like having the option to “turn down” the frequency with which certain songs in my collection play.

        Being able to add music to my collection easily - ambiently out of life, when experienced here or there in whatever contexts - is something that’s still lacking in today’s tools. They’re still too profit focused, trying to build mega-hit monsters through brainwashing of the general public. No thanks.

      • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
        4·
        10 hours ago

        For probably >50% of artists I listen to, I never could have discovered them in record stores, either because they never had widely available physical releases at all, or only in their home countries. And my friends have pretty different musical tastes from myself.

        Recently went through my parents’ old vinyl record collection though, after fixing up their record player from the 70s. There’s definitely something special about discovering music through physical media, looking at the album art, reading the booklets etc.