Location: Melksham, Wiltshire
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I'm Peter.
Your blood can boil as much as it likes but it’s human nature (as well as the foundation of economics, which is surely only an attempt to codify human nature into patterns divined through observation) that value falls as supply rises and that infinite supply will have an obvious consequence.
Location: Melksham, Wiltshire
Posts: 731
I'm Peter.
What’s odd about it? You visit people who have gone over to streaming and there they are, clicking about and jumping around, yes the buffet in front of them is enormous but so is the potential for indigestion.
Yes those of us who have established mature listening habits might well use the technology in a more focused way but the format itself does not encourage focused, repeat listening of the sort that leads to deeper musical understanding and I think this is apparent already in the playlist mentality so ubiquitous among the young.
(As it happens I have a 21 and a 19 year old both with pretty sophisticated tastes no chart rubbish thankfully but even my daughter an accomplished harpist has much less focus on getting to the bottom of music than I did, the medium itself impacts the experience I believe in many ways that are detrimental to serious listening).
So what point are you trying to make ? You were praising effectively limitless accessibility of music. I argued that streaming has down sides, in particular for young people where the technology actively discourages focused listening (though us old farts can be butterfies with the iPad too). From what I can see your blood is apparently boiling away for some reason but you dont have an argument that this is not an issue.
The basic point about when something becomes effective free it loses value is, I think, indisputable. (And actually calculable in the amounts paid to artists for streamed plays vs what they used to get for an LP or CD sale).
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I'm Deleted.
Well, A “How many folk now use streaming....?” Isn’t the question the OP asked and B, even it it had been, I’m entitled to say ‘not me’ as anyone else.
You must be feeling very sensitive regarding criticism of streaming because because I’ve actually seldom commented on it, never mind ‘beating it to death’. It’s also entirely untrue that I don’t want to like streaming!
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