Originally Posted By: Mark Hayes
In days of old, I would sometimes buy a CD, listen to a track or two, maybe play it all the way through once, then never play it again.


Great point. How many CDs do we all have with 2 songs we like and 9 that are "filler" tracks? The kicker there is that word "filler", because 10 of us could all buy the same CD and like 2 different songs.

My big turnoff to streaming is this. First of all my only exposure to streaming is Pandora. Years ago when they started. I got it, listened from time to time but quit because of this.

I typed in David Sanborn. I got two songs by Sanborn and then started to get other sax players. I don't WANT other sax players. I want Sanborn. If I want Grover Washington, another idol of mine, I will ask for Grover Washington. That same concept is why I will NEVER listen to the radio. 2 songs, 8 minutes of commercials, then 2 more songs that THEY choose for me. I have many gigs of music on a thumb drive in my car. My radio allows me to search by song title, artist, genre, etc. So when I feel like hearing Dr Dog, I can listen to the 15 Dr Dog songs I have. Then maybe Dawes. Then maybe Willie Nelson. On days I just want music of any kind I set it to random and it can randomly pick songs from those many gigs.

Does Spotify play JUST a selected artist? I hear people talk about their Spotify playlist. I don't know what that means in context. Do you have to add songs one at a time when they play? Do you specify artists? Also I don't live on my cell phone. I use computers for almost everything but phone calls. (Of course when I am away from home I use it for other things, but so many people use their cell phone in lieu of a computer and I don't know why anybody prefers reading that tiny screen and pecking on the screen like a chicken eating grain.)

I also don't like having to create accounts for everything. Every time you do that exposes you to the inevitable security breach where your information is stolen, or as often happens, greedily sold to mass emailers.

Floyd also made a good point about young people not buying music because they stream 24/7 and sales is one of the major metrics used to form a perspective of old vs new. What is selling and what is not.

A lot factors into it. Bands now make so much money so fast that after a few years they consider that they may have milked their audience to the point where they are dry and then branch out into new projects so they can start the milking process again. They (sometimes thankfully) don't stay together long enough to get old and put out weak reinventions of their former self and play the nostalgia tours. (see: REO Speedwagon, Journey, Styx... there comes a point to let it go.) So music doesn't have a chance to get "old" anymore. A lot to consider in this discussion.

Last edited by eddie1261; 01/27/22 06:35 AM.