This channel has been one of my favourites for the last while. The host, Brandon, is a knowledgeable and talented musician / DJ, and his production quality is extremely high - I'd say it rivals...
This channel has been one of my favourites for the last while. The host, Brandon, is a knowledgeable and talented musician / DJ, and his production quality is extremely high - I'd say it rivals some low-end Netflix shows.
He previously put out another series of videos examining the benefits of using an iPod or mp3 player rather than just listening to a streaming service on your phone. The process of purposefully purchasing / acquiring music and then consciously selecting what songs and albums you bring with you dramatically changes the listening experience, and your connection with the music. The entire series was fairly thought provoking and slightly philosophical, and I really enjoyed it.
I am quite excited to see where the rest of this look into cassette tapes and the related music history goes. I was involved in the mp3 and iPod era, but was too young to get the full tape experience back when they were actually in use!
Cassettes for me are a nice relatively small physical "trinket" / memorandum / merch piece (like a shirt or otherwise) if I want to have a physical copy of an album that isn't as expensive as...
Cassettes for me are a nice relatively small physical "trinket" / memorandum / merch piece (like a shirt or otherwise) if I want to have a physical copy of an album that isn't as expensive as vinyl. So for certain records I'll sometimes get the cassette (which very often comes with a digital copy anyway- since most of my purchases are from bandcamp or similar).
I doubt I will ever play my cassettes but I leave the option open. I've thought about getting a decent used cassette deck for the purpose, but for older-style physical media that I'd actually play, I'll probably stick to vinyl for the occasional physical experience. Most of my music listening is digital regardless, but I do like physical (and analog) media, but I definitely prefer vinyl for that. Tapes just aren't in general a great experience in a number of ways, but I could see myself "enjoying it for what it is" with a cassette deck. Sometimes the jankiness is part of the joy.
I do these days (while having YT Premium and rarely using streaming that comes with it with YTM) almost always play mp3 files when I want to listen to music. On PC or any device in the house it is local mp3s streamed from a in-home music server or on the device directly. In my car, it's a USB SSD full of mp3s. On the go, I often save a subset of my library to my phone/device and use that directly. I definitely like the experience more sans streaming, but occasionally it can come in handy, especially if I don't feel like sailing the high seas for a quick listen or something, if it's not something I've yet decided to purchase.
I always buy music or merch as my way of supporting the (especially smaller) artists I want to support, knowing a single album purchase is worth thousands of song streams in terms of revenue. Feels much better to throw them a few bucks they'd never remotely see if I'm streaming it
I’ve been looking forward to this since he announced it on Patreon a few months ago. Digging The Greats is one of my favorite YouTube channels (though I never watch the videos there, since YouTube...
I’ve been looking forward to this since he announced it on Patreon a few months ago. Digging The Greats is one of my favorite YouTube channels (though I never watch the videos there, since YouTube doesn’t let him include the songs he talks about).
This channel has been one of my favourites for the last while. The host, Brandon, is a knowledgeable and talented musician / DJ, and his production quality is extremely high - I'd say it rivals some low-end Netflix shows.
He previously put out another series of videos examining the benefits of using an iPod or mp3 player rather than just listening to a streaming service on your phone. The process of purposefully purchasing / acquiring music and then consciously selecting what songs and albums you bring with you dramatically changes the listening experience, and your connection with the music. The entire series was fairly thought provoking and slightly philosophical, and I really enjoyed it.
I am quite excited to see where the rest of this look into cassette tapes and the related music history goes. I was involved in the mp3 and iPod era, but was too young to get the full tape experience back when they were actually in use!
Cassettes for me are a nice relatively small physical "trinket" / memorandum / merch piece (like a shirt or otherwise) if I want to have a physical copy of an album that isn't as expensive as vinyl. So for certain records I'll sometimes get the cassette (which very often comes with a digital copy anyway- since most of my purchases are from bandcamp or similar).
I doubt I will ever play my cassettes but I leave the option open. I've thought about getting a decent used cassette deck for the purpose, but for older-style physical media that I'd actually play, I'll probably stick to vinyl for the occasional physical experience. Most of my music listening is digital regardless, but I do like physical (and analog) media, but I definitely prefer vinyl for that. Tapes just aren't in general a great experience in a number of ways, but I could see myself "enjoying it for what it is" with a cassette deck. Sometimes the jankiness is part of the joy.
I do these days (while having YT Premium and rarely using streaming that comes with it with YTM) almost always play mp3 files when I want to listen to music. On PC or any device in the house it is local mp3s streamed from a in-home music server or on the device directly. In my car, it's a USB SSD full of mp3s. On the go, I often save a subset of my library to my phone/device and use that directly. I definitely like the experience more sans streaming, but occasionally it can come in handy, especially if I don't feel like sailing the high seas for a quick listen or something, if it's not something I've yet decided to purchase.
I always buy music or merch as my way of supporting the (especially smaller) artists I want to support, knowing a single album purchase is worth thousands of song streams in terms of revenue. Feels much better to throw them a few bucks they'd never remotely see if I'm streaming it
I’ve been looking forward to this since he announced it on Patreon a few months ago. Digging The Greats is one of my favorite YouTube channels (though I never watch the videos there, since YouTube doesn’t let him include the songs he talks about).