This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I really want to get a https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara at some point.
Although I have an old ipod with a new battery and linux installed...so theres no real need.
Did he ever go over bandcamp? Most of the indie music that is local at least has something on there.
This is from the artist's pov, and touches on specific scenarios, but generally speaking this and other things make every Spotify user's experience worse.
And what I hate most is that they don't even understand what I'm talking about. That they're being duped, and that I have more freedom in choosing and discovering music than them.
So many people think solely in genres nowadays, not individual artists. And they don't even care if more and more generic or AI generated stuff finds its way into their playlists. They "adapt". After all, they only put stuff they like into their playlists, right? But unknowingly, gently, they keep getting pulled towards a trodden path and if this goes on long enough we'll have like 10 genres to choose from and that's it. No individual artists anymore, no experimentation, no challenging your listening habits etc.
edit: it seems my general anti-streaming-service-rant partly contradicts this video, or misses its topic by half a mile, but then again maybe not? Shit's complex.
I just think we should all go back to physical media CDs for music and blu ray for films is what I am currently doing
physical media CDs for music
My understanding is that the streaming services basically ended the loudness war by imposing ReplayGain-style volume normalization. I'm not sure that I want to restart it.
That's true, from a certain point of view. What they actually did was give everyone a common target. We still get everything compressed and limited into a flat line, just now we don't have to adjust the volume on our stereo between songs.
We still get everything compressed
I don't know if sound engineers are doing so, but the streaming services removed the volume benefit to doing so. If you use DRC, your music will be cut in volume. DRC will reduce audio quality both on CDs and streaming services, but before there at least was a volume edge to gain, and now that's gone.
Last year I put my music collection on an SD card and slapped it into a hifiman walker mp3 player. I quickly discovered that having a device solely for music has made my listening much more deliberate, and I've listened to more music more often than I ever have because of it. I even plug it in my car instead of using bluetooth
