Yeah, I can easily feel just fine about buying a new album I enjoy but it does get on my nerves to pay loads of money per month for one person to watch ads half the time lol (along with the fact that I really only listen to music anymore)
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We all start out with older music that handed down to us or played around us. Then we start branching out to our own thing.
I was born in 1960 so I grew up with and love 60âs and 70âs music. However due the availability of music nowadays Most of my music is from 2000 and on.
Shane D
Yeah true, I mean I have to admit there are some new songs that are actually cool to my ears but most of them are not from the damn US, they are mostly from Japan I mean my profile picture says it all xD. But yeah the 60âs probably The Beatles that I love listening to with some few Rolling Stones and probably Bread (I think they are late 60âs but close enough.) I guess it is not so late to discover more new things in music and of course appreciating every genre of music is probably the best one.
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Pretty much, my parents were into a huge variety of music, and that really carried over because I really enjoy most of all genre of music at this point (except modern country, it just makes me irritated when I hear it lol)
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A couple of years ago I got into jazz looking for something different. Turns out I love horn jazz. Also some blues.
On iTunes I go through alt rock, rock, jazz and blues until something grabs me. I canât imagine being one if those guys that listens to classic rock over and over for ever. I loved the 70âs, but you gotta move on at some point.
Shane D
PS: I should also mention that most of my purchases are singles. With most albums I only grab a song or two from it.
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Well thatâs a fair assessment and argument, now in particular due to streaming theres no need to illegally download music when you can test out a song on the internet. Personally ive meet and talked to too many good people to consider them scumbags for downloading a few song lol. But you have a intensity around the subject for good reason, keep in doing you. And btw I mostly buy music now for ethical reasons but it is also because of my downloading in the past that i was even able to enjoy music so to an extent i go into this with an enlightened egoistic view
Yeah only when an album is truly amazing do i also get the full album, if not i mostly get single tracks.
See I hate having loose songs in my library, so itâs either in an album or I donât have it lol
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Lol by brother is the same. He CANNOT have some loose songs, its the album or nothing. Plus he dosent want mixes of mp3s and flacs so he goes all mp3
I have almost all lossless, but if I really like the album and it physically does not exist in lossless I will pick it up in a lossy
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Youâre missing a ton of great music that way. 90% of bands canât put together a strong, full album. But many bands can come up with one, two and even three great songs.
The beauty of digital music. Unlike when I grew up with albums and CDâs. I bought tons of crappy albums in my life with one or two great songs. Paying $12.00 to $14.00 for one or two singles. Grrrrrr.
Now you can build a collection of thousands of tunes consisting of only songs that you like. Life is good.
Shane D
Well I mean I do have in excess of over 50,000 tracks lol (and I havenât checked that recently too), but I do agree that there are some killer singles. I kinda scoot around my own rule because if I have multiple singles from the same artists I will just tag them in an album called singles. I am mainly talking about more well established artists with proper albums and I ignore their singles that donât make it into an album
Iâm more of a person who is addicted to spamming the random button until I find a song I want to listen to
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Howâs that work btw? I mean considering that music is originally wave if I remember correctly how do some not have lossless formats? I also have one artist whose first album is just mp3s. And due to the type of music I listen to I would say mine is solid 50/50 lossless vs mp3
So some smaller artists artists only release in lossy formats like those on itunes, play music, SoundCloud, etc, or stuff like that
Or it was a super small band that was never really popular and you just canât find any lossless versions available
More and more small artists are releasing studio versions or cd quality which is nice though
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Oooooooooh! Thatâs quite surprising but now that you mentioned smaller artist doing it it adds up because the one who I mentioned is an extremely small unknown singer. And yeah itâs great that others do it now, particularly grateful for the system bandcamp uses. Itâs perfect, now if only all artists would get on there
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Another unfortunate thing is when you sometimes find that a CD from an artist sound pretty bad, but their vinyl release has better mastering (typically only for older releases lol), but you canât find anywhere to buy the vinyl and rip. I donât have a vinyl setup but I do have a friend who has a pretty crazy one and I just have him rip it for me in high quality
Wow! I didnât even known your could rip vinyl! Lol learn something new everyday
By rip vinyl I mean record playback with an ADC to a lossless format
He just has a really nice turntable and preamp and all that jazz so I bring over a really good ADC
Edit: for anyone curious he has a VPI Avenger Reference with a VPI Voyager phono pre. Donât know his cartridge and stylus tho
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Oooooooooh i see, thnx for the clear up.
Sometimes I wonder if someone used a set up like that to do rips of those hyper expensive reel to reel tapes they sell for like 400 dollars an album