Listening to Recorded Music

[Milestones]

Edited December 5, 2023 by Milestones

[Dan Gould]

9 hours ago, Milestones said:

None of these apply.

My CD listening time is constrained; I am most likely to hear a new one in the car and then its straight thru but constrained by length of trip;

Haven't borrowed a CD from the library in 25 years (maybe more).

D/Ls sit on the hard drive and ultimately get extracted to a thumb drive and listened to in the car - usually on longer trips and straight thru;

Streaming I do with decent quality youtube and then only stream from one PC to another for recording via Goldwave. At that point it joins with other D/Ls on the thumb that stays mostly in the car.

[Rabshakeh]

He handed down these four bullet points? 

[gvopedz]

I now buy very few CDs per year - but when I do, it's because I very much want to listen to the music, and so yes I will listen to the entire CD on the day I bought it (but I might be listening while cooking and eating).  The Hendrix Band of Gypsys boxset took more than one day.

[Milestones]

The ultimate point that these days we tend to access a great deal of music that we don't listen to (or only partially listen to).

 

 

 

[felser]

I often buy CD's in batches to save on shipping, so it can take me a while to get to them, but I play the whole disc if it's one I'm going to keep (I will bail on some cheap used ones which were musical "lottery tickets" if I decide I'll be movng it along).  Streaming, I am generally just going to youtube for a single track I am in the mood to hear, or to sample something specific I haven't heard and am curious about.  I don't borrow discs from the library (outmoded by streaming) and don't pay for downloads (have bought, I think, three downloads ever).

[Dan Gould]

39 minutes ago, Milestones said:

The ultimate point that these days we tend to access a great deal of music that we don't listen to (or only partially listen to).

 

 

 

This does not describe me.  I hear everything I purchase on CD eventually and D/Ls too.

20 minutes ago, felser said:

 I don't borrow discs from the library (outmoded by streaming) and don't pay for downloads (have bought, I think, three downloads ever).

Not that you should change but I have found downloads to be budget savers for reasonable priced access to OOP items from:

Black & Blue label;

Arbors label;

 

I will still buy a CD thru Amazon Marketplace if reasonably priced/conditioned but often on the aforementioned labels, it's hard to find a reasonably priced CD, or a CD copy at all.

 

[rostasi]

1 hour ago, Milestones said:

The ultimate point that these days we tend to access a great deal of music that we don't listen to (or only partially listen to).

Access is different from buying.
Access, as a verb, also refers to the process of examination,
so, yes, I'll very definitely partially listen to all kinds of things -
especially when arranging a radio program - 
or in order to decide if I want to finally buy it.
Kinda like sampling vinyl in a store or off a cassette that
someone's given you, but on a much grander scale.
I'll stream thru something completely if it's engaging enough -
and that happens quite often these days - especially these days!
So yeah, access? That's an absolutely great thing!

Edited December 5, 2023 by rostasi

[Milestones]

We all have different experiences.

I recall buying LPs and CD's and feeling that rush as I'd spin them and listen with full attention.  That's a rare thing anymore.  

 

[JSngry]

17 hours ago, Milestones said:

Where is this from?

I cannot relate to any of it. 

[Teasing the Korean]

• Usually, not always.
• I don't check out CDs from the library.
• I listen to downloaded albums the same way I would listen to an LP or CD, unless there is a track that I really don't like.
• I don't stream.

[rostasi]

2 hours ago, Milestones said:

We all have different experiences.

I recall buying LPs and CD's and feeling that rush as I'd spin them and listen with full attention.  That's a rare thing anymore.

See, I can do that with anything that I really want to listen to.

[Brad]

None of those apply to me. When I buy a CD or a record, my intent is not to listen to it immediately, as I have others I’m listening to. 

[mikeweil]

On 12/5/2023 at 4:09 PM, Milestones said:

The ultimate point that these days we tend to access a great deal of music that we don't listen to (or only partially listen to).

Exactly!

[Milestones]

Yep.  

And early this year I lost a big chunk of music, so it has actually been fun to re-acquire albums and actually listen to some stuff I had ignored for a decade or more.

But to pursue another aspect, I found that several people said they do not borrow from libraries.  I have found public and college libraries to be an absolute treasure trove for jazz (and other) music.  

 

 

 

 

 

[mikeweil]

I never borrow CDs from libraries,  my tastes are too uncommon. Books only from university libraries. 

I have an external hard drive with downloaded music but rarely use it, even though there is some rare music on it. I never stream music. 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I've recently got a Raspberry Pi streamer working in my main listening area with a 1 TB SSD drive that most of my music on it in Q0 VBR mp3 format. I've been using this for about a year now and I'd guess I'm using this more than any other playback mechanism.

[rostasi]

For most of my life (so not just “these days”),
I’ve had access to a large number of books
from various local libraries … tho, I have to say,
I’ve never felt the need to comment on the fact
that I’ve not read most of them. It’s kind of a given.

Edited December 8, 2023 by rostasi

[medjuck]

I try to listen to every new cd I buy at least twice before shelving it.  Nowadays I often listen to a cd I've just bought via streaming services while I work out (stationary bike) at the Y while listening through over the ear head phones which I've learned to love.