Music

[andrewducker]

The first question is referring solely to music that belongs, in some way, to you. Something where you get a file out of it. Things like iTunes, Amazon MP3, eMusic, etc.

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[marrog.livejournal.com]

Hm, thinking on it I should've said b rather than a for the second question as I guess Last FM is more like Pandora than an ordinary radio station.

Maybe one day I'll let go of the idea of owning the music I want to listen to repeatedly, I dunno. I think I just haven't managed to let go of that yet (even if I've to a large extent begun to let go of the need to own a physical rather than digital copy of the things I love. I think it's partly about being able to browse people's houses for their tastes and have them browse mine).

As it stands, I use Last FM to hear new music, and then if I like it I download it.

[andrewducker]

In my case I guess it was more that my switch to MP3s happened when I realised I hadn't even opened my box of CDs in over a year, and my switch to Spotify happened when I realised that I only listened to my MP3 collection when I was listening to music in the living room or kitchen (where I had music things set up that didn't support Spotify).

[marrog.livejournal.com]

See, I sometimes listen to some sorts of music where you really ought to listen to a whole album. And when you do that, it's nice to be able to put on a CD and just play it from beginning to end. That's generally when I pull CDs out, and it's the sort of CDs I now tend to buy - indeed, when I do download that sort of album I'm likely to burn it to audio CD for that purpose.

[andrewducker]

All of my Spotify playlists, apart from maybe two, are albums (albeit a few of them have tracks I don't like removed from them). Listening to albums beginning to end is how I listen to music most of the time.