I miss scarcity

@soix 

Yeah I get it, but you still have to consider both sides and not just what we’ve lost.  Would you give up what you have today to get back the things you’ve lost?  If the answer is no then you’ve gained more than you’ve lost

I think you’re missing my point just a little bit. No, I don’t "have to consider both sides" in a way that requires me to choose whether I would "give up what I have" because I’m not weighing them against one another to reach an either/or. 

There are other purposes for comparison than either/or choice. I’m considering them to compare them. I have no intention of giving up streaming -- that said, I have friends who are reintroducing CD’s to their system to make more forceful the option of limiting data-flood and re-instituting a kind of focused listening they are missing. That kind of adjustment to the system is a benefit of comparing without an either/or.

I too feel sorry for kids who are breathlessly just “keeping up” and finding it hard to appreciate and savor. My daughter, though, has friends at Oberlin who are much more into long form attention. She came home from her first semester telling me one of her favorite albums was "A Love Supreme" and that she’s a huge Steve Lacy fan. She is tired already of Taylor Swift. And she likes to listen to whole albums or sides of albums. 

Some of this is her friends -- musicians studying long form music -- and some I would say comes from our discussions about technology.

@audphile1 you can as always just focus on something else, e.g., it is your filthy world out there, enjoy it.

I think you’re missing my point just a little bit. No, I don’t "have to consider both sides" in a way that requires me to choose whether I would "give up what I have" because I’m not weighing them against one another to reach an either/or. There are other purposes for comparison than either/or choice. I’m considering them to compare them.

I’m not missing your point at all, I just view it differently.  Lamenting what you don’t have anymore without recognizing what you’ve gained is rose-colored glasses and misplaced sadness that I’d rather think of as fond memories.  I’ve discovered more new music in the past six months than I had in the prior six years before streaming and as a result have enjoyed being an audiophile/music lover far more now than at any time in the past — it’s really reinvigorated my love of the hobby and music in general more than ever.  So while reading liner notes, the smell album covers, talking about music with my buddies in depth was fun and I do miss it a little, it doesn’t compare to what I have now so considering one without the other doesn’t make much sense to me. It’s kinda like the guy who got his first car 100 years ago and then laments his horse and buggy — sure you can maybe miss certain parts like bonding with the horse and such but really?  Was it really that good or is it maybe more just selective memory at work?  Further, I could still do all those things today if I really wanted to but choose not to so maybe I just don’t miss those things nearly as much as you do, which is probably the case — certainly no right or wrong here at all cause music is nothing if not a unique and personal endeavor and journey.  Either way, I find myself just enjoying the hell outta myself in the present so much so that I don’t lament the past much at all or any more than I miss having to get up to find a CD and load it into my CD player, but that’s me.

another major factor in this discussion, is not the technology, but the fact that for many/most we’ve been doing this for many many decades...there are some interesting articles out there about the psychological process/impact/effects etc of listening by streaming or CD or LP ...not good/bad or right/wrong but interesting differences in the process and effects of each....from choosing albums/songs to listening habits to emotional impact...

 I had now everything i ever wanted : music and books at the fingers tips...

I dont need anything  technological,but only books and music which i would not have without technology anyway...

I miss the human aspect of life i knew from my childhood till the 90 just after Berlin wall fall, before technology and neo liberalism  begin to impose oligarchs  over nations and ideologies over cultures...(Mandeville Calvinist design )

i will give all that even books and music, for a less inhumanity  the one we see  pervading everything...

 I abhor  the new religion of technocratic techno-cultism....

I dont miss scarcity no but  i miss humanity ...