Music CDs - Hidden Tracks - What else have we forgotten after moving to streaming services?

[lazybloke]

I just have a usb stick of music in the older car. The steering wheel buttons let me control playback to some extent, and a passenger can use the more comprehensive controls on the screen/dash.

I prefer using android auto in the other car, as in addition to the wheel and screen buttons, i can voice-control it, and there's more choice.

Data reception is no problem, as my playlists are cached on the phone. So yes, I can play the Frog chorus anywhere.

 

[kynikos]

Heathen's, the lot of you! If only I'd known I'd have sent an invite out when I got rid of my CDs a number of years ago. More than filled a standard dustbin so I'd say ~300 litres of 'em including ~70 rare Dylan bootlegs...

 

[kynikos]

..I'd ripped a lot of them to a hard drive which took a serious amount of time and which, in retrospect, was time wasted as I soon ditched this when Spotify came out in 2009. What a revelation that was! Around the cost of a CD a month for unlimited access to a wide range of music which only got wider as time went on. Then along came Tidal with lossless.

I hear the "I want to own the media" and "I love the album covers" (although this went south when vinyl was ditched) arguments but being able to easily curate playlists and the sheer breadth of music available with streaming services is outstanding.

I have a wide ranging taste in music but my niche is best described as 'americana' and getting access to the music and discovering new artists is made incredibly easy with Spotify and the like.

After vinyl (virtually all my records went clickety click at some point due to scratches) CDs were wonderful and I'm sure nostalgia has it's place but, for me, they're 'old hat' and there's a much better way of tuning in.

But I do confess to regretting having consigned Bob to the bin...

 

[wiggydiggy]

Most of my new music discoveries comes from Radio, especially ones where a band plays in session as I get to learn a little more about them, I don't listen live a lot though. Most times I'm listening back to a show on BBC Sounds, normally whilst working.

Youtube has a couple of channels that publish music that I used to listen to regularly but they've changed the playback system and I can't just play 'all new uploads' anymore. I do have many playlists on there setup though from when their algorithm was better and I could just leave it to play on random in the background.

 

[laurentian]

New to CC so I have skimmed through this thread quite quickly and offer apologies if this has been mentioned but I have collections of vinyl and CDs and would say that a high res streaming app (Qobuz or Tidal) through the right kit is as good as CD (Spotify not so much due to compression of files). The "max" files available on Tidal are arguably better than CD quality.

. . . and way more convenient.

 

[Oldhippy]

I've never stopped buying albums or CD's myself. I have no music on my phone.

 

[laurentian]

I've never stopped buying albums or CD's myself. I have no music on my phone.

Me neither but streaming does open me up to a lot more music that I may not ordinarily be exposed to. I will sometimes find something i like the sound of from streaming then go and buy the album.

 

[wiggydiggy]

New to CC so I have skimmed through this thread quite quickly and offer apologies if this has been mentioned but I have collections of vinyl and CDs and would say that a high res streaming app (Qobuz or Tidal) through the right kit is as good as CD (Spotify not so much due to compression of files). The "max" files available on Tidal are arguably better than CD quality.

. . . and way more convenient.

Theres a few good suggestions like yours scattered around. I ripped all my CDs to disc a while back (lockdown exercise), some of the tags are not great and theres some suggestions further back for tag editing software to fix this.

I've actually finished my magical mystery tour through my CDs and they are (for) now sitting nicely alphabetical on the shelves once again. I didn't find that many 'hidden' tracks in the end, maybe I remember more than there were.

 

[PhotoNic69]

I still buy lots of 2nd hand CDs from the likes of MusicMagpie etc. Quite often the albums I like are not available to stream, and those that I do like have been 'remastered' aka butchered and also a whole host of extra tracks (often live versions, 7" or 12" singles, EP versions, Demo versions etc). I find these most annoying. I just want to listen to an album the way the artists originally released it.
I'll often listen to an artist through streaming and then buy the albums on CD or Vinyl if I really like them.