Funny how people complain about Apple dropping devices, but this has hung around so long. Thought it was dead years ago. Real use would have been a fake phone for kids.
I see so many bemoaning streaming. Your iPhone can store far more music than an old HDD iPod. Don’t see the difference.
I mostly stream with Spotify. It recommends good obscure music for me, and I can find most of the weird 70s/80s punk I love.
I still have my old records and use them when I want that captive experience. I kept my CDs of super obscure local bands.
For me it’s not an xor, but an and. I like both the new and old experiences. And I still listen to albums more than songs.
The streaming sound quality isn’t nearly as cringe inducing as old MP3s. I’m no audiophile, but hated MP3 less than barely compressed. That crunch on the high end was brutal.
I don’t miss maintaining ripped CDs: fixing metadata, keeping FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 for different devices, etc. Never bothered recording my records. I’ll never understand anyone longing for cassette tapes beyond personal mix tapes.
I do still pay for records when I love an album just to kick them more $. But they mostly just go on the wall or collect dust in a bin. I usually only listen to my old LPs.
I store FLAC and just copy it to my phone as-is. I don't have my whole library, of course, but I can cycle stuff as needed and I don't need to convert anything or store two versions of the same albums.
I see so many bemoaning streaming. Your iPhone can store far more music than an old HDD iPod. Don’t see the difference.
I mostly stream with Spotify. It recommends good obscure music for me, and I can find most of the weird 70s/80s punk I love.
I still have my old records and use them when I want that captive experience. I kept my CDs of super obscure local bands.
For me it’s not an xor, but an and. I like both the new and old experiences. And I still listen to albums more than songs.
The streaming sound quality isn’t nearly as cringe inducing as old MP3s. I’m no audiophile, but hated MP3 less than barely compressed. That crunch on the high end was brutal.
I don’t miss maintaining ripped CDs: fixing metadata, keeping FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 for different devices, etc. Never bothered recording my records. I’ll never understand anyone longing for cassette tapes beyond personal mix tapes.
I do still pay for records when I love an album just to kick them more $. But they mostly just go on the wall or collect dust in a bin. I usually only listen to my old LPs.