Feb 6John MaddenCouldnt disagree with you any more
The fact that songs disappear from streaming/new versions pop up/all the other bs kind of kills the point of buying music
I use a hifi walker 2. before that it was just a regular sony mp3 player that played pods but i never lost a file and could transfer songs across devices. Granted I never fully understood syncing with ipods/ always lost files or deleted my library. Even if its fixable not worth the headache(for me). Salute to you tho if thats no issue
Feb 6·1 reply
Walt DisneyLmao, you don’t know how much time I spend with each artist. How could you say something like that to a complete stranger online?
500 artists. I mean that’s more than one a day. Not to mention listening to a project. So it seems mathematically impossible to get to any of them
Smells like the illusion of choice
- Feb 6·editedJim Halpert
500 artists. I mean that’s more than one a day. Not to mention listening to a project. So it seems mathematically impossible to get to any of them
Smells like the illusion of choice
You got it
88,000 mins of music played in 2025. Seems perfectly logical I could hit 500 artists & go through their albums. 
Feb 6
ProjectI wanna see a big artist straight up just not release their album on streaming and have it be physical only just to see what happens
"a million illegally downloaded my truth over the drums"
Feb 6
nocommentNot really a big artist though
Not yet
- Feb 6·5 replies
It was such a nightmare of ripping CDs & tagging them on iTunes back in 05, used to spend hours doing that, so thankful kids today don’t have to go through that anymore. Or worse, trying to burn a CD & realizing it stopped burning before your bus ride to school the next morning
- Feb 6
Major Insiderstreaming was the best thing to come for the consumer, while being one of the worst things for the artists
- Feb 6·1 replyWalt Disney
It was such a nightmare of ripping CDs & tagging them on iTunes back in 05, used to spend hours doing that, so thankful kids today don’t have to go through that anymore. Or worse, trying to burn a CD & realizing it stopped burning before your bus ride to school the next morning
Made us better people tbh
- Feb 6·1 replyJohn Madden
Made us better people tbh
It’s one of those things where you enjoyed the process at the time until something better came along. My marketing professor used to say: innovation is coming up with a solution to a problem people didn’t know they had
I feel like that could be applied to physical media compared to streaming. If only I knew back then just how nice we’d have it now
- Feb 6Walt Disney
It’s one of those things where you enjoyed the process at the time until something better came along. My marketing professor used to say: innovation is coming up with a solution to a problem people didn’t know they had
I feel like that could be applied to physical media compared to streaming. If only I knew back then just how nice we’d have it now
Its true and its definitely more helpful with time i cant even disagree with the point in theory or in practice. I just like to tangibly have the files esp coming from the blog era. But you are correct about innovation
Feb 6·1 replyWalt DisneyIt was such a nightmare of ripping CDs & tagging them on iTunes back in 05, used to spend hours doing that, so thankful kids today don’t have to go through that anymore. Or worse, trying to burn a CD & realizing it stopped burning before your bus ride to school the next morning
I agree man
The one thing I will say is the finite choice really made you appreciate what you had more
Couldn't imagine buying a cd , listening to the first 30s of a song and skipping it saying it's trash.
- Feb 6FredVanYeet
I agree man
The one thing I will say is the finite choice really made you appreciate what you had more
Couldn't imagine buying a cd , listening to the first 30s of a song and skipping it saying it's trash.
That “finite choice” quote is very f***ing true man, but then the other side to that is you think “I spent $10 on this, I have to get my money’s worth” & almost force yourself to like it even when the s***’s not hitting
There’s positives/negatives to both local files & streaming forsure, both sides could go back & forth all day on this topic ya know lol
- Feb 6·1 replyWalt Disney
It was such a nightmare of ripping CDs & tagging them on iTunes back in 05, used to spend hours doing that, so thankful kids today don’t have to go through that anymore. Or worse, trying to burn a CD & realizing it stopped burning before your bus ride to school the next morning
If that took you hours you have some real issues
iTunes tags CDs immediately. Just did it with a Maxwell album last week. Took about ten minutes. Time well spent
- Feb 6·1 replyJim Halpert
If that took you hours you have some real issues
iTunes tags CDs immediately. Just did it with a Maxwell album last week. Took about ten minutes. Time well spent
You are so negative man plz stop quoting me
“You have some real issues”
Feb 6·1 replyWalt DisneyIt was such a nightmare of ripping CDs & tagging them on iTunes back in 05, used to spend hours doing that, so thankful kids today don’t have to go through that anymore. Or worse, trying to burn a CD & realizing it stopped burning before your bus ride to school the next morning
You can tag a CD in like 5-10 minutes these days
- Feb 6Walt Disney
You are so negative man plz stop quoting me
“You have some real issues”
It took you hours to tag CDs in iTunes?
- Feb 6·edited·2 replieseye contact
You can tag a CD in like 5-10 minutes these days
When I downloaded my bloody valentine debut the s*** got f***ed up on the site & it said “track 1” with nothing inputted, s*** can still go wrong. I had to rename all the tracks, list the artist, the album artist, album name, and upload the artwork, and sort out the track numbers
- Feb 6·1 replyWalt Disney· edited
When I downloaded my bloody valentine debut the s*** got f***ed up on the site & it said “track 1” with nothing inputted, s*** can still go wrong. I had to rename all the tracks, list the artist, the album artist, album name, and upload the artwork, and sort out the track numbers
Naming songs is not that hard bro
- Feb 6
Streamings end goal is for you to view music (and tv) as background content so that they can stop paying human artists
Which is why there are no young superstars. Just niche algorithm artists
- Feb 6·1 replyeye contact
Naming songs is not that hard bro
Brother all I am saying is it takes time holy s***, with streaming it’s all right there ready to go. I did my time with all of that back in the mid 00’s & s*** all the way up until 2011 or so.
- Feb 6Walt Disney
When I downloaded my bloody valentine debut the s*** got f***ed up on the site & it said “track 1” with nothing inputted, s*** can still go wrong. I had to rename all the tracks, list the artist, the album artist, album name, and upload the artwork, and sort out the track numbers
I’d advise download another version or just buy it
Less convenient tho I guess if that’s your main priority
- Feb 6·2 replies
@Jim_Halpert_ I am straight up not even looking at what you reply to me with man, I get it. You love iPods & local files.
- Feb 6Walt Disney
Brother all I am saying is it takes time holy s***, with streaming it’s all right there ready to go. I did my time with all of that back in the mid 00’s & s*** all the way up until 2011 or so.
It’s bad that it’s “all right there”
- Feb 6Walt Disney
@Jim_Halpert_ I am straight up not even looking at what you reply to me with man, I get it. You love iPods & local files.
Not as much as I hate streaming and what it has done to you