i love what the internet did to music (AT FIRST) <3

[SIVIUSmaxxing]

okay im talking about BEFORE short form content which ruined the music industry (kinda ironic right?)
the internet made finding new music soooo much easier, back in the day you had to go to a music store, check out the selections, and pick an album or two, pay for it and hope that youll like itand oh if you were into more uhm "experimental" music good luck finding something that youre into, now sure this had the advantage of making you open your mind more to newer music and makes you appreciate the music more but what the internet did (AT FIRST) was amazing.
suddenly you had a shit ton of fellow music dorks that like the SAME music as you, and theyre sharing the files around for some records that may have not been released in your country/unreleased music, sharing new music and just having fun
but lets be honest its the internet people will always fight over stupid shit, but they fought about stupid shit with LOVE, and i think thats great
idk what else to say i just wanna appreciate the internet

 

[Carlnshake Carlnshake]

Napster was cool

 

[SIVIUSmaxxing]

Napster was cool

yknow soulseek exists so you can still download music online :P

 

[Carlnshake Carlnshake]

yknow soulseek exists so you can still download music online :P

I just use youtube, pretty much everything is on there that I listen to. Also have Alexa and amazon music hooked up in the living room. But there's nothing like pirating music back in the day.

 

[SIVIUSmaxxing]

I just use youtube, pretty much everything is on there that I listen to. Also have Alexa and amazon music hooked up in the living room. But there's nothing like pirating music back in the day.

ah, i suppose the memory's of pirating music online was fun, but again knowing the internet speeds back then it might just be the nostalgia :B

 

[Carlnshake Carlnshake]

ah, i suppose the memory's of pirating music online was fun, but again knowing the internet speeds back then it might just be the nostalgia :B

Oh 100% lmao.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I loved using little things like MindViz playlists and VampireFreaks Radio to find new stuff to listen to, particularly since those were user-curated and full of awesome stuff like Mars Volta and Zombie Girl.

 

[SIVIUSmaxxing]

I loved using little things like MindViz playlists and VampireFreaks Radio to find new stuff to listen to, particularly since those were user-curated and full of awesome stuff like Mars Volta and Zombie Girl.

i find it amazing that sites for music fans by music fans existed at some point

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Oh 100% lmao. View attachment 93315

god damn imagine downloading a higher quality mp3 in the 2000s, spent 5 hours downloading 20%, then your mom calls someone and boom you have to do it again cuz dial up :/
but i suppose it made you give the music more value cuz you had to deal with that stuff :P

 

[Carlnshake Carlnshake]

i find it amazing that sites for music fans by music fans existed at some point

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god damn imagine downloading a higher quality mp3 in the 2000s, spent 5 hours downloading 20%, then your mom calls someone and boom you have to do it again cuz dial up :/
but i suppose it made you give the music more value cuz you had to deal with that stuff :P

I member. :3 lmao. or, I'm downloading shit so mom tells me I'm slowing down the internet! lmao

 

[SIVIUSmaxxing]

I member. :3 lmao. or, I'm downloading shit so mom tells me I'm slowing down the internet! lmao

"slowing down the internet" ma'am your internet was running on the hope that it might overwhelm itself and explode by accident

 

[Carlnshake Carlnshake]

"slowing down the internet" ma'am your internet was running on the hope that it might overwhelm itself and explode by accident

You don't even know. I do go back as far as dial up. I -love- that sound.

 

[SIVIUSmaxxing]

You don't even know. I do go back as far as dial up. I -love- that sound.

OH IM GLAD THAT I DONT KNOW, i love living in the era where i can download GBs worth of albums in mere minutes
i sadly hate the modern internet functions, yknow with the just same 5 huge sites that everyone uses :/
i wouldve preferred to have a shit ton of small sites run by the people for the people for every interest

 

[Carlnshake Carlnshake]

OH IM GLAD THAT I DONT KNOW, i love living in the era where i can download GBs worth of albums in mere minutes
i sadly hate the modern internet functions, yknow with the just same 5 huge sites that everyone uses :/
i wouldve preferred to have a shit ton of small sites run by the people for the people for every interest

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

Nowadays I will download music on YouTube convert it to music at I can control what volume and hz I like.

 

[SIVIUSmaxxing]

Nowadays I will download music on YouTube convert it to music at I can control what volume and hz I like.

hell yeah downloading music!!

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The more things change, the more they stay the same.

okay i know that these small spaces still exist (wowza we're on one right now!) but i just dont like that youtube, instagram,facebook,twitter etc are just the FACES OF THE INTERNET NOW >:/
its a shame isnt it?

 

[SliperyHippo]

I was talking to some friends about how they listen to music and find new stuff, and a lot of them just turn on spotify and let the auto generated playlist feed them whatever.
I think these big platforms like youtube and spotify have almost "depersonalized" music in that the discoverability isn't so much about sharing with friends but instead just letting the algorithm dictate your music taste.
This isn't to say that all algorithms are evil, I've found a lot of great music on the youtube home page, but artists I would NEVER have seen or even clicked on, like JaimieP and Vylet Pony, wouldn't have entered my playlists had I not had a friend play me snippets of their music without seeing thumbnails or knowing anything about the artist.
That being said I think our internet mono-culture needs to remember how to share again from human to human instead of from machine specifically built to your tastes to you the individual.

 

[qw90700]

the internet made finding new music soooo much easier, back in the day you had to go to a music store, check out the selections, and pick an album or two, pay for it

Well in my country we had the culture of recording the music directly from radio that can record tapes, and thus share the tapes around. Music stores were left in vinyl technology that really stayed so ancient and therefore useless from our POV because we had no idea how to make big ass vinyls played on the go and carry it but we had portable tape players at least and better carry tapes around which I had a specific bag for it lol. I think why transation to tape technology from vinyl was hard in my country because higher old people population and their inability to deal with tapes and wouldn't actually upgrade their home music entertainment by leaving vinyl players behind lol. However it was new generation POV of "vinyls are for granma, Imma young so I only listen to tapes" culture lol. Only young people who really cared about old music and all cared about vinyls because unless even a decade old music was so popular they wouldn't be played on radios so to listen them you had to find their vinyl and if you really want it for tape you had to bother a lot. Tapes were superior for our daily lives but still vinyl was so necessary sometimes (dude I had to spend like 3 months of my pay to buy some Barclay James Harvest vinlys and had to convince and pay to a music store to record some songs in these vinyls into a tape by paying like 1 month of my pay + provide tape lol).

Then music stores that sell tapes started to be thing but only was prefered when you don't have empty tape to record in it, and tapes that already have music in it sold cheaper but it was kinda better to just record music from radio. Whatever was popular enough to be sold already played on radios anyway. But such shops was relatively a late thing in my country. Soon after they started to sell music in CD and then boom internet culture became widespreading so people downloading like 5 MB mp3 file for 6 hours and praying telephone won't ring until download finishes yo lol.

 

[SIVIUSmaxxing]

I was talking to some friends about how they listen to music and find new stuff, and a lot of them just turn on spotify and let the auto generated playlist feed them whatever.
I think these big platforms like youtube and spotify have almost "depersonalized" music in that the discoverability isn't so much about sharing with friends but instead just letting the algorithm dictate your music taste.
This isn't to say that all algorithms are evil, I've found a lot of great music on the youtube home page, but artists I would NEVER have seen or even clicked on, like JaimieP and Vylet Pony, wouldn't have entered my playlists had I not had a friend play me snippets of their music without seeing thumbnails or knowing anything about the artist.
That being said I think our internet mono-culture needs to remember how to share again from human to human instead of from machine specifically built to your tastes to you the individual.

EXCUSE ME?????????
LETTING THE AI JUST FEED YOU???
LIKE ATLEAST ON YOUTUBE IT WOULD GRAB YOUR EYE AND YOU MIGHT LISTEN TO IT
BUT THEY JUST SPOTIFY'S AI MAKE THE PLAYLISTS FOR THEM?
wheres the fun in finding new music?
i used to have soooo much fun browsing on bandcamp, looking on youtube, trying to find new music, searching random names that sounded cool to see if thats an artist to find new music
that was like HALF the fun in listening to music, the search was fun
sharing should only be human to human, and algorithms should only be there when they work closer to recommendations that you can CHOOSE from, instead of being fed it which is just how it works on short form content.
i think short form content did a lot more of harm than good to the internet tbh :/

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Well in my country we had the culture of recording the music directly from radio that can record tapes, and thus share the tapes around. Music stores were left in vinyl technology that really stayed so ancient and therefore useless from our POV because we had no idea how to make big ass vinyls played on the go and carry it but we had portable tape players at least and better carry tapes around which I had a specific bag for it lol. I think why transation to tape technology from vinyl was hard in my country because higher old people population and their inability to deal with tapes and would actually upgrade their home music entertaintment by leaving vinyl players behind lol. However it was new generation POV of "vinyls are for granma, Imma young so I only listen to tapes" culture lol. Only young people who really cared about old music and all cared about vinyls because unless even a decade old music was so popular they wouldn't be played on radios so to listen them you had to find their vinyl and if you really want it for tape you had to bother a lot. Tapes were superior for our daily lives but still vinyl was so necessary sometimes (dude I had to spend like 3 months of my pay to buy some Barclay James Harvest vinlys and had to convince and pay to a music store to record some songs in these vinyls into a tape by paying like 1 month of my pay + provide tape lol).

Then music stores that sell tapes started to be thing but only was prefered when you don't have empty tape to record in it, and tapes that already have music in it sold cheaper but it was kinda better to just record music from radio. Whatever was popular enough to be sold already played on radios anyway. But such shops was relatively a late thing in my country. Soon after they started to sell music in CD and then boom internet culture became widespreading so people dowloading like 5 MB mp3 file for 6 hours and praying telephone won't ring until download finishes yo lol.

thats interesting, it mustve sucked when the dj spoke during the song lmaooooo
its really cool to see different ways people listened to music back then :P

 

[Janunba88]

And yet, because of this, I don't understand why so many people sell their souls download things like Spotify to listen to music. I honestly think it's one of the worst ways to do this. I don't hate artists or bands, but I have a very hot take on music monetization that most people would hate to hear.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

Nowadays I will download music on YouTube convert it to music at I can control what volume and hz I like.

i don tthink thats how it works LOL

yknow soulseek exists so you can still download music online :P

soulseek my beloved

i still buy physical CDs and rip them using Exact Audio Copy. That does become a bit of a small issue though if i want 24bit/96khz files. i know a lot of people dont really care about the sound quality of their music, but it matters a lot to me. the clearer and sharper the music is, the stronger the visuals and feelings are for me as someone with Synesthesia. it's much more immersive.

 

[SIVIUSmaxxing]

And yet, because of this, I don't understand why so many people sell their souls download things like Spotify to listen to music. I honestly think it's one of the worst ways to do this. I don't hate artists or bands, but I have a very hot take on music monetization that most people would hate to hear.

yeah i dont think an artist should get paid $2500-$5000 for a million streams :/
bandcamp my beloved <33