‘Algorithms make everything predictable’: why the CD is making a comeback
(www.theguardian.com)
Physical MediaBuy physical when you can. Movies, books, music. It's always better.
My CD collection, each and every single album I purchased since, what, the early 90 or the late 80s, never left me. Maybe they did not get the memo informing them they were declared obsolete and replaced by streaming? ;)
Thinking about it, I wonder how much I would have had to pay in monthly sub in order to listen to any album I purchased one time, say in 1990, and still can listen to this very day at no extra cost?
I'd suggest you back them all up, CDs don't last forever, they are susceptible to "rot", especially if the manufacturer cheaped out or self burned ones
You're right. And they're all backed up (I finished the backlog somewhere around 2008 or 2009 and then only had to slowly add each new album)
I've had a a few rotten discs already. Not enough to disqualify the entire concept of CDs as a pointless medium but too many of them no matter what as back then they were not sold to us as 'time limited medium'.
I have always loved listening to albums in their entirety. And I agree with the interviewed person saying that you become deeply familiar to a record when you be have listened to it several times, as opposed to just listening to a single from it.
Especially with bands like Pink Floyd
There are albums from the 90s/early 00s that I simply cannot remember which track was the radio single - the entire album is a banger.
Anymore, it feels like albums released are just one or two tracks + filler.
We should return to EP format - less filler haha
Lots of new bands are taking this approach. Exploring Birdsong was formed 7 years ago and released their first album this year. Before that they put out a couple of EPs and a bunch of single. The dude from Nemode told me they wanted to do the same when I asked him about their first album.
This trend annoys me. I find EPs too short. Just as I get settled in, they are over. None of the flow of a good album.
That paragraph reads the way I feel when I find a new artist that has tons of singles and EPs but no albums. I'm not sure why, but I only like music in two modes:
- Giant pile on shuffle
- Album played start to finish
I've been really enjoying a bunch of Prog recently and a lot of it is because of the focus they put on assembling good albums. You don't get Sirius without the rest of Eye in the Sky behind it.
None of the flow of a good album.
That's actually the reason he gave me, they're a young band and they need to "really find their sound" before making an album worth listening to. Exploring Birdsong say the same thing in their interviews. Check them out if you're into prog BTW, awesome band.
Because this shit is always cyclical.
It goes round and round
The same as it ever was.
My local library just decided to stop buying new CDs and to get rid of their whole collection, same for DVDs.. I said that this is probably the worst time to do it lol.
It's also utterly moronic: they're a library, they're supposed to be holding onto physical copies of whatever they offer to their users. Without that, libraries themselves will soon be considered... pointless and a waste of public money. Which may be the plan?
Sad times we live in.
Yeah, this is what I have been thinking and what I have tried to tell them. Music (and movies) are culture and people should be able to access culture without paying or having to watch ads.. The streaming services are not an answer since they keep rising their prices and limiting what they offer, filling their lists with non-human creations for profits.
Exactly.
They're committed to render themselves useless: if people, aka citizens, do indeed need to pay a sub for accessing media they won't own (like stuff borrowed from the public library) why should they then be expected to also pay taxes in order to subsidies those public libraries, as well as the librarian's salaries? What will be their purpose in that model?
I'm really surprised the employees are not working hard against such a shift, it's quite obvious this won't end up well for them.
From what I have been told when talking to them, they just see the music and movies as a waste of money and space.. But yeah, full agree.
In a world so obsessed with reducing costs, as public servants, they should really be a lot more careful when pointing out at anything as 'a waste of money'. Really.
Feel free to share with them that comment from a random French dude, that probably has no clue at all what he is talking about, you chatted with online on that odd reddit-like forum ;)
Yeah, that's a shame, because it was a library where I had developed my lifelong musical preferences by borrowing mountains of discs - and them coping them onto an iPod Shuffle. It was an amazing place for serendipitous discovery. I remember picking up Mr Bungle album and thinking that's Faith No More singer??! Squeeze Me Macaroni was catchy though.
I've been ripping my CD collection (which has sat in a box for too long). It's a nice feeling getting away from streaming
Sure it is... I bet Twitter said so.
