Along_the_Wire Quoboz is decent but not great IMO. Has a lot of Hi-Res stuff I like and the download store often has useful purchases that you can’t get elsewhere like some of the individual tracks from certain old GU compilations. A lot of more esoteric eclectic stuff in their collection. I’m not a massive fan of their user interface though and I keep having to navigate and operate in French even after fixing it a few times. Had a subscription for a year but ended up using TIDAL using Soundiiz to import all my Spotify playlists into it. The difference in sound quality is big- vey noticeable in even car audio when driving round town.
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I love that all my physical media knocks streaming into a cocked hat.
Wasily I’m used to Apple Music and it’s already better for me to find new albums - Apple is riddled with paid for artist promotion and shit EPs and singles where albums should be. I’m also thinking any clunkiness is a small price to pay to get more revenue to artists.
Amps Apart from when you don’t have it
Along_the_Wire When do I not have my phone or iPod on me? I just rip everything.
I’m just glad Snr sold the billions of records he did in the 80’s or 90s!
Amps How much are you spending on CDs and vinyl?
Along_the_Wire no more than I did in the 90s and 00s… it always connects, never gets deleted, quality is brilliant, no adverts and looks great on the wall / boat.
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Been happily using Tidal for 4 years now. They’ve started putting edits of club tracks lately too. But I don’t use it for house music apart from DJ mixes so doesn’t concern me.
Amps I’ll take the savings - I listen to way more different stuff too as a result, although not sure if that’s really a good thing, stuff becomes very disposable. Space would be an issue an all. I’ve never had a problem streaming lossless or stuff getting deleted (that I’m aware of). Also, I could not be fucked ripping everything I bought like the old days. Fair fucks to you mind.
Along_the_Wire I listen to way more different stuff too as a result, although not sure if that’s really a good thing, stuff becomes very disposable.
Amps I’ll add to this the idea of a ‘process’ too. If you own the physical media, finding the cd or the vinyl, taking it out of the sleeve, putting it in / on and pressing play etc. gives you that level of interaction where you’re handling the thing, looking at the artwork, maybe reading the sleeve notes or the like, and I think it all helps with your involvement with the music, more so than clicking a bit of digital text on a screen.
Yeah, I think when I buy it, and have the thing in my hand, or kicking about somewhere, it just gets listened too more.
RichM still buy porn mags too?
Occasionally. I have a few rarer Private and Silwa mags. Some of them go for mad money. Due to the shear volume of my collection though, if it was all physical media I would need a Slazenger bag the size of a barn.
Funny the stuff that appeals… BluRay / DVD cases and Hollywood artwork are junk and not something I’d have on the wall. With avant garde music and literature, you get interesting media and art, all of which are welcome aboard the boat.
The problem with the streaming though is that it’s fucking over so many artists. Pop music will shortly become a version of AI generated Kpop the planet over. Tory music.
Amps I do agree, and think the model should change. Either whack up the monthly fees by 4-5 times what they are, or make it so that you pay as you go so to speak. The amount of music you have access to for £10 a month is insane. I’m guessing if they hike up what we pay then people just go to stealing it off the internet instead.
However would need all streaming services to agree a model they all follow, otherwise will never work. But they won’t care I guess as they are not the labels or artists