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i just deleted spotify a while ago and went thru this transition. youtube music is run by alphabet (google parent company). i have tidal and paid for a service to transfer all my playlists from spotify to tidal.
band camp + tidal has really good music quality and (tidal reportedly) pays their artists!
also i think we should all just return to local libraries of music on our computers or CDs/casettes/vinyl. i think streaming has commodified and convenience-cultured music into being this gimme gimme gimme interaction between fans and artists. when you have a physical media either an MP3 file or something else, it makes you (or at least me) proud to own a piece of this art someone put their whole heart n bussy into. i want you to have a mindful experience if you were listening to my music yk?
i do acknowledge that the systems we built are moving past physical media and streaming is obviously dominating the market right now but we can always change that tide :) power to the people forever, we have nothing to lose but our chains.
band camp + tidal has really good music quality and (tidal reportedly) pays their artists!
also i think we should all just return to local libraries of music on our computers or CDs/casettes/vinyl. i think streaming has commodified and convenience-cultured music into being this gimme gimme gimme interaction between fans and artists. when you have a physical media either an MP3 file or something else, it makes you (or at least me) proud to own a piece of this art someone put their whole heart n bussy into. i want you to have a mindful experience if you were listening to my music yk?
i do acknowledge that the systems we built are moving past physical media and streaming is obviously dominating the market right now but we can always change that tide :) power to the people forever, we have nothing to lose but our chains.
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📼streaming services are very cool and all, and they have definitely allowed me to discover artists that i probably wouldn’t have otherwise, but having a physical copy of music - an album, single, or a mix - is extremely important to me. i find comfort in knowing that no one can really “take” the music away from me in the event that spotify crashed or something. also, with vinyl, especially, having a physical copy of the music forces you to take care of it and pay attention to it. you can’t just mindlessly listen to a record because you have to get up and flip it over, and then carefully place it back into its sleeve. if you make a mixtape, you have to sit and think about what songs you want and what order you want them in. if you walk into a music shop, you can‘t (or at least most of us can’t) just go in there and buy any album(s) on a whim - you have to be selective, because you’re spending money on it.
also, i just enjoy the experience of going to a record store. the smell of the old albums, sifting through all the bins and shelves, chatting with the owner - it’s an experience that will always be so lovely to me, and one i would never have if i solely depended upon my phone for music.
i just believe that streaming services have allowed us to become mindless consumers of media. we take it all for granted and aren’t as intentional about any of it as we used to be. i suppose it’s another form of overconsumption. once again, i am extremely glad of what the platforms have allowed me to find, and i don’t think they’re evil, i just think many folks have lost sight of how music is supposed to be treated.
also, i just enjoy the experience of going to a record store. the smell of the old albums, sifting through all the bins and shelves, chatting with the owner - it’s an experience that will always be so lovely to me, and one i would never have if i solely depended upon my phone for music.
i just believe that streaming services have allowed us to become mindless consumers of media. we take it all for granted and aren’t as intentional about any of it as we used to be. i suppose it’s another form of overconsumption. once again, i am extremely glad of what the platforms have allowed me to find, and i don’t think they’re evil, i just think many folks have lost sight of how music is supposed to be treated.
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🎧I’m not super anti-streaming but I do think everyone should actually own (psychically or digitally) their music library again, instead of basically just renting it all. To think that any streaming platform is capable of removing any album or song you like at any moment’s notice is super annoying. I do see a world where both can co-exist where you use streaming to discover new music and use other means like bandcamp, cds, records, downloads, etc to support and consume a musician’s work.
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💿I have a pretty decent vinyl / VHS / cassette collection and I think actually owning media is going to be really important in the coming years. I have lots of thoughts on this.
1) I think it's a misconception that everything is digitized. There are certain albums and movies (especially movies) that are nearly impossible to find on the internet. There are lots of shows and movies that have been "remastered" or now being "upscaled" with AI that are completely changing the look and feel of the original work. (ex. Star Wars)
2) Having a physical relationship with your media changes the way you interact with it. Physically moving your body and going over to the shelf and having a finite number of tapes/records to look through is a completely different experience than the decision paralysis one can get from having unlimited choices. You also will have to dive into full albums instead of taking the weekly playlist.
3) You don’t need the internet to access it. You buy it once and if you take care of it - you own it forever. I don’t want to assume that the internet / streaming services as we know it them will be around forever and I don’t like the idea of a paying for a perpetual service that I will never stop paying for. Not to mention that all of these services serve as massive corporate data collection agencies that are constantly spying on you and selling your information!
It’s fun to collect things and see that old technology still has utility and save it from the landfill. It can be a lot of work (moving is a nightmare), and take up a lot of space, and it might be completely impractical but I don’t think we are supposed to experience everything in life through a 2 dimensional screen for the sake of convenience.
1) I think it's a misconception that everything is digitized. There are certain albums and movies (especially movies) that are nearly impossible to find on the internet. There are lots of shows and movies that have been "remastered" or now being "upscaled" with AI that are completely changing the look and feel of the original work. (ex. Star Wars)
2) Having a physical relationship with your media changes the way you interact with it. Physically moving your body and going over to the shelf and having a finite number of tapes/records to look through is a completely different experience than the decision paralysis one can get from having unlimited choices. You also will have to dive into full albums instead of taking the weekly playlist.
3) You don’t need the internet to access it. You buy it once and if you take care of it - you own it forever. I don’t want to assume that the internet / streaming services as we know it them will be around forever and I don’t like the idea of a paying for a perpetual service that I will never stop paying for. Not to mention that all of these services serve as massive corporate data collection agencies that are constantly spying on you and selling your information!
It’s fun to collect things and see that old technology still has utility and save it from the landfill. It can be a lot of work (moving is a nightmare), and take up a lot of space, and it might be completely impractical but I don’t think we are supposed to experience everything in life through a 2 dimensional screen for the sake of convenience.
Jan 22, 2025
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i’m curious as much as i am sad about the decision to make the star count visible. is that what its proper name is? or are we calling it likes? 👀
please let us be free from the commodification of the data generated from our social, whimsical, and sincere, free expression
the sincerity of this app is because it’s different from those other apps :/ why do we need metrics on how we socialize? 😮💨😮💨
i’m curious as much as i am sad about the decision to make the star count visible. is that what its proper name is? or are we calling it likes? 👀
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