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Re:Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention... by ramraj07 on Saturday December 19, 2020 @03:48AM (#25476144)
Just sounds like a whole load of "these kids are ruining what used to be the good old times". Of course, I also think music from back in the day was better, but I am also aware that its just a matter of taste and our tastes are molded by prevailing business-social pressures as ours was back in the day.

If music appreciation sucks today it can be blamed more on the music industry and their idol manufacturing pipeline than streaming. This rot started well before any of these internet era breakthroughs anyway.

The only difference I see in the Spotify era is that if I want to listen to the Beatles or the beach boys, I can. I might not be able to find the exact bootleg recording of Dylan from some concert but whatever, the internet probably has a forum where you can find it if that's what tickles you. Don't blame streaming for what is fundamentally a music industry problem.

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Re:Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention... by raspyberr on Saturday December 19, 2020 @06:57AM (#25476870)
The person you're replying to doesn't say anything about "music from back in the day was better" though. They're talking about the "consumption" of music. And in a way I agree, I generally lean towards limitations being important. Humans aren't good when everything is given to them easily.
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Re:Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention... by ianai on Saturday December 19, 2020 @06:40AM (#25476803)
I used to think music from back in the day was better. Then I washed my predilections out and did a clean take on modern music. There are some real gems there. They’re also ... new.
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Re:Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention... by gcpwnd on Friday December 25, 2020 @03:31PM (#25538818)
Reread your and the previous post. You make hardly a point towards it. What is new with streaming is that music is much faster produced, consumed and forgotten. Streaming is part of the Problem. You cannot expect capitalist in the industry to step back and prefer quality over quantity and the streaming industry neither. As long there is cash on the table some one will grab it. Actually everyone is part of the problem from consumer to artist. It's just the question whether you perceive it as problem or not.
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