Kuoppis
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Streaming now accounts for 75% of US music sales, in physical media only vinyl growing
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Randy Myers
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I assume that digital downloads are considered part of that 75% and not part of the physical media.
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Unlikely. Previous data has shown that downloading of music is falling as fast as CD sales.
That's what i understand also. I bought several high def downloads some time back but I have not bought downloads in well over a year. And now that high def files are available via streaming (Qobuz) I see the trend continuing.
My two girls (18 + 21) only stream. Nobody they knows buys CD's or downloads iTunes anymore. They do know a handful of friends that buy vinyl, biut certainly not for sound quality reasons.
CD's are dead.
iTunes is dead
vinyl will be around for a while but its future is ??
Streaming is and will be the future of consuming music, like it or not. I just hope they fix the revenue stream to the artists.
Me, I will continue to listen, buy and enjoy vinyl for the rest of my days as.
CD's are dead.
iTunes is dead
vinyl will be around for a while but its future is ??
Streaming is and will be the future of consuming music, like it or not. I just hope they fix the revenue stream to the artists.
Me, I will continue to listen, buy and enjoy vinyl for the rest of my days as.
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Personally, no predictions here about whether any format is dead or alive. Remember how dead vinyl was in the early teens?
But to make sense of it all,
- I pretty much only buy vinyls nowadays. They work even when the Internet connection is down, or if a streaming provider goes bust. And playing them has something mechanical and nostalgic I enjoy.
- high res downloads I buy occasionally, if I especially like a particular recording
- CDs I might buy in case no other format is available and I want to have something in my library (they’re all in storage already for a decade now)
- iTunes I never used because they store your high quality rips in the cloud in mediocre quality and offer them back for other devices in an inferior format. Also dislike their control attempts.
For everything else there’s Mastercard and my streaming subscription (also Amazon Prime I do have but never use it for music). And of course the kids have their own Spotify account.
PS: I do have 18 TB of music on my NAS, so even if I would completely stop buying and subscribing I would not run out of good stuff to listen to for a while.
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But to make sense of it all,
- I pretty much only buy vinyls nowadays. They work even when the Internet connection is down, or if a streaming provider goes bust. And playing them has something mechanical and nostalgic I enjoy.
- high res downloads I buy occasionally, if I especially like a particular recording
- CDs I might buy in case no other format is available and I want to have something in my library (they’re all in storage already for a decade now)
- iTunes I never used because they store your high quality rips in the cloud in mediocre quality and offer them back for other devices in an inferior format. Also dislike their control attempts.
For everything else there’s Mastercard and my streaming subscription (also Amazon Prime I do have but never use it for music). And of course the kids have their own Spotify account.
PS: I do have 18 TB of music on my NAS, so even if I would completely stop buying and subscribing I would not run out of good stuff to listen to for a while.
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Same here with my 3 daughters: they only stream (Spotify paid subscription which they share amongst friends and also on our Tidal and Qobuz accounts).
They have a couple of friends who buy vinyl, mostly deejays.
As the quality of the hi-res Qobuz streams is so good, I recently asked my wife whether we should start selling our CDs.
She answered: "And what if Tidal and Qobuz go bankrupt?".
So, for now, we'll keep our vast collection silver discs, but I admit we currently stream 80-90% of the time.
We only started streaming beginning of '18!
No interest whatsoever in going into vinyl again.
Side effect: pop concerts got extremely expensive, as this is their only way of revenue.
I agree that this has to be fixed so that younger musicians also can build a career.
You could rip your CDs to a computer and don't have to worry about a music service going bankrrupt.
There are still 2 disc players in my system, so that's already a good back up, I don't even have to bother about ripping thousands of CDs.
For the moment, there's no need, as Qobuz and Tidal offer streams for 90-95% of our albums.
Agree. Tidal/Qobuz have 90-95% of my CD collection as well. If you rip those 5-10% remaining CDs, you can then store your entire CD collection and the players as well! I reclaimed lots of space that way.
I still prefer something I can hold and put on the turntable or in the disc players. I do have much of my collection on hard drives. I also listen to several internet radio stations that play what I consider a good selection of music with little or no verbal comments.
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Life's too short to mess with turntables or disc spinners. I would be jumping up and down like whack a mole to skip the fluff on 98% of the releases out there.