While Driving, The Car Radio.....

[_Doctor Steuss]

Whenever I talk to the kiddies at work who only listened to music via YouTube or streaming services their entire lives, their relationship to music seemed too foreign to me to make me give them another look. So, what's your elevator pitch for someone who grew up with albums rather than downloads?

I am not sure how other services work, but with Apple Music, it's basically like having an iPod that you can add music to on the fly.

It also has the "recommended" type function for creating stations like Pandora, but I've never tinkered with it.

Apple Music also gives you the option to download albums/songs directly onto your device (especially groovy if you phone allows a micros SD); so if you don't have a cell/Wi-Fi signal, you can still listen to your tunes. You can shuffle all albums/songs in your library, or just those downloaded. You can also do the same with Playlists you create.

One of the things I enjoy most about it, is if I all of a sudden have a song pop in my head from yesteryears, I can download the album in its entirety, and bathe in nostalgia. It's also handy for when one of my audiophile friends says "Have you listened to _____?" -- moments later, I have the whole album to take for a spin.

[_Ceeboo]

Correct, most of the bigotry and intolerance we see today is coming from the left - do doubt about it.

I am at a complete loss to understand how any rational, compassionate individual can possibly come honestly to that conclusion! All the hateful bashing and disparaging of blacks, Jews, foreigners and both undocumented and legal immigrants

Perhaps part of the reason that you think I'm not rational and that I posses no compassion rests squarely with your view that compassion and rationality is something that ought to be measured by how someone treats "blacks, jews, foreigners, and immigrants." In my view, extending compassion is not determined by race or ethnicity (at least it sure shouldn't be in my opinion.) I believe compassion ought be given to all Americans - by all Americans - No matter what their race or ethnicity is.

I recognize that there are political and economic conservatives who are genuinely caring, honest and compassionate people. Until some of your more recent posts, I was strongly inclined to believe you were one of them!

I guess I shouldn't have made my recent posts then.

[_Lemmie]

Schmo's thoughts on the superiority of Spotify are right in line with mine. I'll just add that I too typically prefer to listen to whole albums and that is readily accessible on 99.999% of the things I want to hear, even accounting for some of my more eclectic tastes. It is also crazy how good the music recommendation algorithms are.

Me too. My sons got me started with it through the family plan, what a deal! Those algorithms work pretty well as a search feature also.

[_Some Schmo]

Talking about how the music listening experience has changed over the years, one thing I don't miss, and something I haven't heard people talk about in decades is inferior sound quality. Remember the days when you spent top dollar to get an awesome sound system to get the most out of your analog recordings? Now that everything is digital, there are no sound glitches, like drops in volume, skips, snaps, crackles and pops. Everything you stream is in pristine shape. There's no background hum (unless you have very crappy speakers). It's almost as though CD's made us forget that music storage used to degrade over the years.

I've heard several people make the argument that analog music sounds "fuller" and more live (you gotta listen to it on vinyl, man). I haven't noticed that (it could be true for some people), so if it's a choice between perfectly smooth, serviceable digital and imperfect "voluminous" analog, I'll take digital any day.

[_Some Schmo]

Me too. My sons got me started with it through the family plan, what a deal!

This made me laugh, only because it was my daughter that turned my wife and me on to Spotify as well.

Where would we be tech-wise without this younger generation to tell us the best way to listen to tunes?

[_Ceeboo]

I am at a complete loss to understand how any rational, compassionate individual can possibly come honestly to that conclusion!

I'm just not seeing that this statement jives with reality, either. I don't see that any evidence has been presented to support it.

Yes, I fully recognize (and accept with some personal anguish) that we see things completely differently.

In addition other things, this speaks to the unstable and unbridgeable political divide that America finds itself in. And it is my opinion that this unbridgeable divide is very detrimental to the entire country. All of us.

[_Ceeboo]

I am a bigot

Yes, you most certainly are.

[_Some Schmo]

I am a bigot

Yes, you most certainly are.

You're a bigot for calling me a bigot. That's how it works, right Ceeboo?

Yeah, you have no idea what that word even means.

[_Lemmie]

Me too. My sons got me started with it through the family plan, what a deal!

This made me laugh, only because it was my daughter that turned my wife and me on to Spotify as well.

Where would we be tech-wise without this younger generation to tell us the best way to listen to tunes?

I know.

(by the way, I think you were just misquoted. This was the full quote:

I am a bigot to the degree that bigotry applies to people who are intolerant of opinions contrary to facts.

I hate that out of context stuff! )

[_Some Schmo]

(by the way, I think you were just misquoted. This was the full quote:

I am a bigot to the degree that bigotry applies to people who are intolerant of opinions contrary to facts.

I hate that out of context stuff! )

Thanks, Lemmie.