Agreed! Physical media will never completely die. LPs, CDs, books, movies, they're not really special if I can't hold them in my hands.

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

There is something special about holding your favorite stuff! Thanks for watching

I'm still cataloging, but I currently have a collection of 783 CDs. It covers free jazz, hip hop, metal, punk, avant-garde, noise, r 'n b, prog, classic rock, etc. I have shelves that can fit up to 1000 CDs. And every time I look at them, I'm amazed at what I have and what I might add to it. Your point about owning music really hit home for me. Thanks for that.

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

Hell yea that’s quite a collection! Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching

Agreed! I've still got most of my vinyl LPs from as far back as the 70s, including my old KISS albums my parents purchased for me in the 70s when I was a kid. I've also got 45s, 12" singles, cassettes, CDs, Beta, VHS, DVDs and BluRays in my library. I rip and catalog my CDs to my PC and sync most of it in libraries on my phone, and keep the physical media stored away in bins. I'm not a fan of streaming services as I've found the sound quality to be lacking.

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a hell of a collection! I’m with you when it comes to sound quality on streaming services as well. The consensus seems to be that streaming is lower quality than anything else. Thanks for watching!

the difference is if you bought the physical media over stream music, you own the music and have more rights to how you and where you play the music.

I tried digital music buying for a little while but this felt soulless with a feeling of emptiness inside me when I knew I didn't have the physical CD. Also having great comics, books, movies, games on physical makes them much more appreciated and valued - esp the older they get.

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

I completely agree. Thanks for watching!

@Dirshaun

Жыл бұрын

Same, there's just something about knowing that I can still read a book anywhere. Lacking internet access is not much of an issue for me since I have an expansive library.

@evacody1249

5 ай бұрын

You want to know what is soulless? Being told that the only good music is whatever is on the radio. I don't like Olivia Rodrgio, Taylor Swift, or Billie Eilish. So why should I be held hostage to what the big three radio companies and big three labels say is good and what I should like. Heres the bands I enjoy: Skarlett Riot Amaranthe, Epica, Firewind, Cyhra, Dark Tranquillity, Delain, Dragonforce, Dragonland, Everygrey, Frozen Crown, The Halo Effect, Lovebites, Kalmah Visions of Atlantis, Yours Truly, Parkway Drivie, Unleash the Archers. So here is the question are you going to pay for me to get the albums from these bands from over seas? Not one of them is on one of the big major labels. So explain to me how I get there music. Let me also ask how do I find these bands and others like them if you take away streaming music? No really I want to know. Because not one person who brings this up can answer the damn question. Not one band will be on the radio in the USA. Not one band will be in any store. So unless they true the USA me getting there hands on there music is next to impossible. Unless you are going to change how the major companies do things then I'm going to keep using streaming. Eddie Trunk: Death of Music Industry & The Internet kzread.info/dash/bejne/h4OAytakg7m7oLQ.html Other wise that's how all of you are acting. You are acting like an Eddie Trunk. Eddie Trunk hates every music that did not come out in the 70s, 80s, and 90s and wants to gate keep what people can listen to. Don't be any Eddie Trunk.

@techknow9237

5 ай бұрын

@@evacody1249 I didn't say get rid of digital. I just pointed out I prefer the physical format.

@Anonymous-wb3nz

2 ай бұрын

​@@evacody1249poser.

I really resonate with this video, though I might be called "old school". I went through all phases of music reproduction media - Shellac 78s, Vinyl, Tapes, CDs, Mini-Discs and iPod. I prefer digital to analogue because of consistent music clarity - you don't get hiss & scratch noises that old LPs sometimes have, though I would agree that analogue in good condition over good HI-Fi has a dynamic that cannot be beat. I also like the ease of access and selection with digital as I like to generate my own playlists. So over the years I have migrated my favourite music to a CD collection, which is copied on my PC. My all time favourite vinyl collection, which includes highly valuable Beatles LPs, I give to a family member who values these oldies but goldies and has a turntable system. I used to be a big fan of iTunes (with about 99% ripped from CDs I own), until I encountered problems with "purchased media services" a few years ago. Apple applies a digital copyright lock to purchase downloads before about 2010. When I tried to use Double Twist to have my iTunes collection on my android phone, I couldn't transfer locked files. I was seriously pissed. The Genius function on iTunes has also been changed a year or so ago and now it really sucks. So about 2 years ago I checked out other media players. I choose Music Bee and migrated all my CD collection. To cover the very few "digital purchases" locked with iTunes, I purchased a small number of second hand CDs, as this was virtually as cheap as buying expensive unlocking software, and I now have a secure copy of my favourite music. About two years ago, my stepson subscribed to Spotify, and said I could also use it as a family member. However, if you are not the actual Spotify account holder, (which I am not), you can't play your own collection alongside tracks from Spotify. As my collection (with CD back-ups) is nearly 8000 tracks, using Spotify has the potential to seriously limit my listening pleasure. I am really pleased with the combination of a CD collection and Music Bee - I cannot recommend this media player enough. The music quality is better than iTunes and the Auto DJ function is far superior to the current iTunes Genius. I have added a lot of CDs to my collection recently, as they are becoming even cheaper to pick-up second hand, while the younger generation is moving to streaming. However, the downside of this is that the supply of second hand CDs is becoming static, as there are fewer CD copies of more recent albums coming into the market. I think I am still good for my music tastes and my life time - but the next generation will face different issues.

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you found something that works for you! I remember growing up my main way to listen to music was CD’s and burning CD’s to ITunes. And it sounds like you have a pretty massive collection so I can see why Spotify would be pretty limiting. I haven’t heard of Music Bee before but it sounds like a good service. Thanks for the write up and thanks for watching!

It is our god given right to own Physical media in all it's glory and purest form Physical media 4 life freedom and love 📀📀📀📀

@JukeboxHistory

8 ай бұрын

AMEN! 🫡

You can't beat the sound quality in vinyl and cd. Part of why I love the physical format is the sound quality. I don't want to settle for anything less of what I enjoy.

What scares me about listening to music digitally is the Internet isn't always available and sometimes the network connections are very unstable depending on the area your in... So it's very scary to think all your music that you've paid for is on an app that could stop working instantly if the Internet is down.

@JukeboxHistory

10 ай бұрын

I will say that fortunately most streaming apps have a “download” feature so you can play things offline but you do have to pay the subscription for it. It is more stable to simply pay for your music and use iTunes or something similar if you want to use your phone

@Anonymous-wb3nz

2 ай бұрын

*you're. Punctuation and spelling are hard.

Network Attached Storage is your friend, he is expensive initially and can take a little work to keep running, but other than that tidal-dl, Qbitorrent and yt-dlp will be busy 24/7 filling up all that yummy storage space ready for the apocalypse.

Absolutely agree! I love getting new cds and building a collection

@JukeboxHistory

10 ай бұрын

It’s so much fun!!

@FormalFilmsProductions

10 ай бұрын

@@JukeboxHistory I always try and find an album that I really want

The artwork and the inside liner notes are special. I cannot understand how people now don't care to look at that stuff

Posterity and Collectability: you get to remember the music long after you would have otherwise forgotten it, years later, and pass it on to the next generation as collectors items. And, every album is a snapshot of a band or singer at a particular moment in time. With streaming services (and compilation albums) an artists history gets destroyed, and the band becomes a static personality of their average mix of tunes. With physical media you can collect an entire discography and experience a bands growth and change, a unique personality and sound for every album that tells their history that particular year of release. I collect CDs, rip them to my computer, then put them and their jewel case and liner booklet into a protective plastic sleeve, then in a box made for storing CDs, and that's my collection. When I want to listen to the music I listen to the ripped ogg files I made. I can put those on my phone, or send them to my vintage Pioneer receiver via Bluetooth. My vintage stereo has a Bluetooth Receiver hooked up to the Pioneer Receiver with RCA cables. I can play to it from my computer, or my phone. Lastly, on my computer I have Music folder, then Band folders, and within those, a folder for each album that contains the songs. It's supper easy to play my CDs ...don't have to get them out of their jewel cases. But, when I want to show them off, they will be in nearly mint condition, and that's they way they'll be for the next generation, or a museum ...unless the government gets them first!!!!!!!!! Lol

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

Never really thought of a music collection like that before! Very cool point seeing it as a chronological history or snapshot of an artist. Not a bad system you have going on there either, that’s how I did it growing up in the IPod era. Thanks for watching!

You overlooked the best fix for this... Piracy

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

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I have thousands of cds and vinyl. And hundreds of dvds. I collect I don't rent for life on a streaming service. Good video

@freeman10000

7 ай бұрын

I have all of the above and use film cameras too.

I feel like people who take art seriously but physical. People who don't take are seriously don't. It all comes down to your relationship with art.

I always buy the cd version & I don't mind second hand to save money . To me it's the collection . Music isn't back-ground noise it's part of my soul. BUT , as I have iPod (don't laugh ) it's useful to be able to re load each cd on iPlayer on a new Laptop as I've never managed to carry it over except as a mess.. Plus my iPod often tells me "this track or cd is NOT available in your area " EVEN tho I own the damned thing..! That's the reason I bought an stand alone CD/DVD reader /writer ..new Laptop doesn't have one these days ...now I'm back in control . Another plus was an album I searched for was on-line running at £90 & it was soon gone , but a site in the US sold the music down-load for a couple of quid,,..SO,,,I buy the file ,burn me a disc , weirdly the cover front & back was out there on-line so I down loaded it , printed off my own cd paper slips & ,,hey presto ..I now have every cd by this band - yep it's a fake but there it is in my rack....PS - & recently I had buy a car , a 2010 C1 , real old school , actual key to open the door & it has a" CD Player ! " .....slip in the disc n off I go !

I use Spotify and KZread as a filter to new music. I own 99% of what I like so things I want to buy are really just here and there. I also like physical media because you do not have to be online to listen. I would also say that having an album on both CD and vinyl will give you two different listening experiences even on the same album. I would highly recommend supporting an artist you like by buying merch or seeing their show. Buying used records or CDs is a great way to grow a collection and sometimes its the only way if an album is out of print. I also recommend owning your favorite movies too for the same reasons. Also physical media may be the only way you can listen to something. Not everything is on a streaming service or KZread. That said each method has a very different experience to it even if its the same album.

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

Oh yea Spotify and KZread playlists are great for discovering new stuff. And I will agree that’s it’s nice to own something on multiple formats. Sometimes you can hear things on one format that you wouldn’t on another. Definitely an advocate for buying what you like 😂 thanks for watching!

@gringogreen4719

Жыл бұрын

@@JukeboxHistory A few years ago I went to see Rancid headline a festival here in the Tempe, AZ area and while I was there I got a few things and some promo CDs. I am not really a hardcore guy (I like early Black Flag with Henry Rollins and The Gallows with Chris Carter at the heaviest end of my taste spectrum) and I got a promo from Victory Records. So I put it in one day and half the stuff I skip over. I basically call it "Hot Topic music since that is where I heard most of that type of music before) and I listen to the other half. At the very end there was a song by a band called The Royalty, "That's How I like Them" and just loved that sound! I ended up buying a few CDs when I found them and also the record. There is a bit of a throwback quality to them as well as 2010s Indie. The CD sounds great and modern, the record sounds like it was made back in the late 60s, early 70s. The album is called "Lovers" and definitely worth checking out. Last year I decided to buy all of the Dum Dum Girls back catalog on vinyl because I already had a few and I had everything I could find on CD. The main driver was that the prices had not gone through the roof. That said there is not a huge difference between CD and vinyl.

Thanks for your wisdom!!!

Sound Quality and Availability

I own a hardcopy when it exists. There's things about that I don't like, such as a different country getting a different tracklist or version of a song, that will turn me off usually. One thing that's becoming very common is there being no physical version at all. One of my favourite albums is "Splendid" by Ravenous, it's 100% download/stream only. It's a rigmarole to play on my hifi, because right now a halfway decent file player separate is prohibitively expensive. I have nightmares that a song or album I've never heard, but would love, had disappeared will disappear and I'll never know.

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

Yea I’ve found this happens a lot with smaller artists. It’s way easier to distribute something digitally and not in person

2:53 Excellent and somewhat scary point.

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

Yea that honestly goes beyond physical media too. I’ll save my rant on that for another day 😂

Heh, I’ve never even used streaming for music unless radio counts, Lol

I’m convinced! Also, thanks for calling me handsome 😂

All good points, another I think that's important is when you own the music it has more staying power. Most pop songs are old and forgotten after a couple of months, that really doesn't happen with the music I own.

Preach man!

I still do not subscribe to a single streaming service. I have been collecting my favorite media in its physical form for the last 40 years and that will never stop.

@Anonymous-wb3nz

2 ай бұрын

Same here.

Do you notice how we have three major label and a few major radio companies that control what is sold and played on the radio. Screw that. Until people wake up to the fact that Warner, Sony, Universal, iHeartMedia, Audacy, Tunein and Livennation are broken up or no longer allowed to have the control they do I will keep using streaming. It's the only way I can find all the music and bands I like.

@JukeboxHistory

5 ай бұрын

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with streaming! The point I was trying to make here is that physical media is an important alternative so you don’t lose access to the media you love. Also college radio is a great alternative to the major broadcasters (if you have college radio in your area)

Great info. I still have plenty of DVDs and CDs. Who knows what films Netflix will show and when Netflix will show those films, pull films etc.

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, always good to own a bunch of DVD’s alongside your records. Thanks for watching!

I'm so old, we used to go to Copps Dept Store to buy albums and singles, because Copps. Never stops. Or at least they didn't, now they don't exist, at least not in my city.

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a pretty cool place! Thanks for watching

I would like to point out also that, if everyone stops buying physical media, companies will simply stop making it - look at the blu ray market which is shrinking rapidly with some of the movie studios already talking about ceasing to release new movies on the format. Use it or lose it!

@JukeboxHistory

7 ай бұрын

Great point!

@Anonymous-wb3nz

2 ай бұрын

Blue Ray sales are up every year. Do you live under a rock?

According to the World Economic Forum's plan you'll own nothing and be happy about it. So stick it to them by owning as much as you can.

I buy all my music. Fuck renting.

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

Not a bad idea!

@Anonymous-wb3nz

2 ай бұрын

Same!

My brothers and i own loads of viny however as much as they love the music our teen kids see them as a waste of space, and download everything onto their hard drives 😆

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

Nothing beats a vinyl record! Although those hard drives may help with saving some space 😂 thanks for watching!

I literally had to buy a Utah Saints CD to get the version of the song I wanted. Seems it is vaguely a collectors item. I simply couldn't find it anywhere online, just the crappy version. ed: Same problem with Runaway by Nvoke too. The only version I like is on an album I own.

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

Yea that is another problem I didn’t touch on. Sometimes streaming services won’t have a certain song or artist at all. This is true for a lot of smaller or older artists/songs. Thanks for watching!

Google killed all my music when it changed over. i was busy and could not retrieve my old stuff.

Sir, you’ve pissed off the merchant

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

The service here is horrible

I simply have no desire to ever be beholden to record companies, streaming services, or any corporation who decides what music is and will be available in the future. Next week they may decide that (for example) Frank Zappa's music isn't politically correct so he gets cancelled on Twitter and the streaming sites agree (because they are cowardly idiots) and all of a sudden his music is gone. Nope, not if I own his records or CDs, suckers. And yes, there are tons of other reasons, but this is one that hardly ever gets brought up in these discussions.

Kitty!

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

🐈

my friend accumulates thousands of digital songs, pays about 10 cents each then puts them in a big playlist and plays them in the background 24/7 at low volume wherever he goes. It's quite annoying.

@Anonymous-wb3nz

2 ай бұрын

You need a smarter friend.

Handsome? Thank you noticing.😉

Years ahead of you😋 I see no sense in streaming music..especially if your riding around and hit area with little or no signal! No need to stream with mp3😊

Where is the CAT?! I AM HERE FOR THE CAT!! Thumbs down, MAN!!!

@JukeboxHistory

Жыл бұрын

Apologies, she was too busy being asleep in a sunbeam to make it in time for the video

@hansweissmann_xviii6754

Жыл бұрын

@@JukeboxHistory But she was on the thumbnail!!! Click bait, MAN!!!

The services could just ban you because of the politics (take Russia for example).