The streaming revolution.
If you had told me in my early days of listening that one day I would have easy access to virtually the entire recorded music output of mankind mostly in glorious sound and at a cost of pennies per day, I would have thought you a wild futurist.
This revolution has come with it a predicament of delirious proportion. What to listen to? Even If you limit yourself to one musical genre, the choices seem endless. It indeed is like a kid in a candy shop for a music lover.
I’m not complaining. I’m just in awe!
@devinplombier “To me streaming is another conduit for music, with its own set of pluses and minuses - nothing more and nothing less.” Absolutely. I use Vinyl, Qobuz and a local library of rips, downloads, etc. They each have advantages and disadvantages. I wouldn’t be without any of them.
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Agree for me the big change started with the iPod. I was able to bring all my music with me anywhere without having to make a mixtape or fill a portable CD holder with my favorite discs. Streaming takes it to the next level playing almost any song on almost any device. Love when my kids or grandkids ask for a song they like and I a play it at home, in the car or on the boat. It helps us connect through music which is a joy. |
I have not been streaming that long, since about 2021. Since then the conduit has been a fast and furious upgrade path leaving behind the vinyl system I sold. I love it. I have a nice CD playback system from the early 200's I kept. I hardly ever use it. My streaming system is as good as I can affordably make it as I am retired and now have more limited funds. (See my Virtual system) To me the learning has been fun and I love the convenience. |
I’ve slowly been increasing my streaming . I also play many files burned to my NAS. One advantage of streaming is switching between these files and Qobuz relatively seamlessly. The plethora of choice does come with decreased attention span. Since it is so easy to change recordings, and there is so much choice, one does develop some ADD in their listening habits. In my genre of choice there tends to be a high deletion rate. Many recordings disappear from streaming services after the run of reissues in physical media have stopped. This might be less of an issue if one’s listening is mainstream pop/rock. |
At first, I was a bit of a skeptic about streaming, but I have jumped in and have found ti to be wonderful. A wide choice of music in all genres; I can even get George Szell and the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra performing Beethoven symphonies in HD--Beethoven's Fifth Symphony by Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra was one of the first two LPs I owned in the late 1950s, the other being Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra! I bought an Innuos Stream 1 with LPS1 power supply and the Phoenix USB module, and I have played CDs only once or twice in the past six months. And, I am checking out new performers as well as old favorites. All that for an entire month for about the price of a sandwich, fries, and a drink at Chik FIl A. |
