Originally Posted By: eddie1261
My big turnoff to streaming is this...

Your experience with streaming is unrecognizeable to me.

I use Apple Music.

If I want to hear an album, I play it. If I want to see what an artist's albums are, I look. If I want to see what recordings there are of a classical work, I look.

Apple has its own DJ'd feeds I can play, but I don't. I can also ask Apple to create a "radio station" to play stuff it thinks I will like, based on my listening history, but I don't do that either. I just listen to my own playlists, which are usually collections of entire albums. No ads, no forced listens, just what I want to hear, and I download all this stuff to my phone so I'm not dependent on a constant Internet connection.

Streaming music for me is like having a nearly infinite music library available wherever I go. On my Mac's external sound system at home, in my car via my phone, in my ears while walking if I want to listen with pods. If I want to hear Dvorak's 8th Symphony right now (and I never have, and I do not have any recordings of it) I can. For $10 a month.

Yes, I have to subscribe to Apple Music, but if I were downloading files I'd have to buy them online, and if I were still buying CD's I'd be handing a store clerk a credit card.

PS – Listening to this now...

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Last edited by Mark Hayes; 01/27/22 07:22 AM.