Why you sitting all cutesy

Having music on your phone is less immersive vs a dedicated device. You can put your iPod on, put your phone to charge / turn it off, and just be fully engaged with your music vs getting texts, emails, googling lyrics or a sample, then you get distracted.
On top of that, the more music you have on your iPhone slows down your phone’s other capabilities significantly. My iPhone turns to a brick sometimes bc I got 35 gbs of music downloaded and I’m trying to use the gps. You always lose something trying to make a multifunction device because the individual task performance suffers.

For non-music heads. Music lovers were always in places where new and old music was discussed.. whether forums or blog sites.

I have almost 250 gb and never had that problem

I hate streaming services, buy physical and use an mp3 player, and use bandcamp to support artists but at the end of the day caring about music/artists in that way is a very niche thing. Streaming is undefeated. It’s way too late Jimmy lol. Also I don’t know why Jimmy trying to act like the white knight that gives a f***

The only way you can even begin to even kinda start trying to shift any of this is if all the top streaming artists (Bad Bunny , Taylor, Drake, etc.) just boycotted the streaming services and only dropped physicals/downloads and even then what are you going to do about YouTube? What are you going to do about people like in this thread (which represents the new average consumer) that’s like “I don’t give a f*** about all that, streaming is king”? Piracy?

It would take an industry wide force of the hand that’s just not going to happen because it benefits the top artists way too much.

The artist cut and making all music too easily accessible. I mean zune pass was similiar to streaming . Everything becoming a subscription to access all of it at launch removed some of the value of the art

If they do copyright notices on it then it doesn’t

There are people ( majority of population) who would never pirate music and are afraid of those sites

Their same logic for stealing leaks too

Niggas don’t care about artist lmao just look at the discourse in this thread. All this discoverable s*** is overrated. It doesn’t mean s*** if a nigga can’t pay his f***ing bills lmao and I’ve seen it first hand how illusory this s*** really is. That’s why if you’re an artist right now you’d rather have 1,000 dedicated fans than 100,000 monthly listeners

The harsh truth lol. Niggas just don’t give a f***. Which is crazy ironic because they claim to be fans of said artists lol

I see why you are saying but spending on your gen you can do all of those things on an iPod.

unreal timing
businessinsider.com/ipod-creator-apple-bring-back-ipod-2026-2

He says this but doesn’t say the only reason is labels and DSPs are greedy as f***. Theres enough money for artists to get paid

This kinda lame to me but I can’t figure out why

wtf i just used the mayonnaise bottle instead of the ranch

Modern day smartphones are too much of distraction. Also music players are bit cheaper nowadays and you can expand storage

08

Streaming watered down all artforms and trivialized art into consumption slop. No one except the big dogs ever make money from it. It’s a beast that is never profitable because it always need more and more and eventually there’s a limit on how much you can grow.

Just peeped nigga sitting like a bad b****

Drake is a better singer than j Cole

I mean it was a pretty genius move by the industry to stay afloat after the era of piracy that coincided perfectly with the rise of smartphones and social media
It made all the sense in the world, without getting into the morals

tbh were music sales ever that profitable for the major label artists?