Tag Archive for ‘Music’

LJPUK:

Apple today increased their service pricing across the board and it was enough for me to realise Apple Music no longer makes sense when I’m already paying for YouTube Premium. Apple Music goes up to £11.99, YouTube Premium is £12.99 and on top of a good music service you get no ads on YouTube.

This is actually why I’ve always argued against streaming music services in general. You are not in control.

Distilling my longtime argument down to its simplest bit, I’d ask “do you want to pay $10 a month for music for the rest of your life?”

But truly, it was never going to just be $10 per month. The price was going to go up over time. It was going to get more expensive to have access to the same music.

If you purchase your music, though, I think most people would reach a point in their life where they stop buying new music entirely or they’re only buying a few albums per year. The cost of music would go down for you over time.

Yes, if you already pay for YouTube Premium, a dedicated music streaming service like Apple Music doesn’t make much sense. But I’m not positive a streaming music service makes much sense long term, at all.

➝ Source: ljpuk.net

A slick desktop music player that connects to your Plex or Jellyfin server. I found this a couple of months ago, but just rediscovered it in my pile of links.

I’m not sure if I’ll end up using it long term, since it’s just as easy to play music from the Plex app, but I appreciate Chromatix’s design sensibilities.

➝ Source: chromatix.app

From the announcement:

Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed,

but the product you use every day has not.

Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The team

building Last.fm is the same. The service continues as normal. […]

We’ll share more about what comes next in the weeks ahead. For now, everything works

exactly as it did yesterday.

I hope the service has a bright future ahead of it.

(Via Preshit Deorukhkar.)

➝ Source: support.last.fm

We have an old stereo receiver in the living room, tuned to our favorite local radio station. We turn it on almost every day.

And in the car, as much as I enjoy listening to my own music collection and podcasts, there’s nothing more convenient than using the vehicle’s radio. Just set it to your favorite station and leave it — you don’t have to choose what to listen to, navigate menus, manually start playback, or anything. It just works.

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Michael Tsai:

The services apps are all frustrating to use. In may ways, they feel worse than Web apps. I cannot believe how Apple has let them regress so much. I miss iTunes from 15 years ago.

I maintain an old Mac Mini that runs El Capitan and an even older iMac that runs Snow Leopard. iTunes is so much better on those older machines than the current state of the TV app, Apple Music, and Apple Podcasts.

My current pet peeve is the Podcast app’s lack of OPML export or import. What a terrible, user-hostile omission.

I was recently trying to export my subscriptions from Pocket Casts and import them into Apple Podcasts so I could use the Apple TV app to more conveniently playback video podcasts. But, no dice. There’s no way to just import an OPML file. I would have to go through and manually subscribe to every single podcast. I’m not going to do that over a hundred podcasts.

➝ Source: mjtsai.com

I started adding a single emoji at the top of the site for special occasions earlier this year, which will typically link to a song to celebrate. I’ve decided to link to Little Town by Amy Grant for Christmas, but it was a bit of a toss up between that and the title linked Emmanuel from the same album. Truthfully, they flow so well together that you should really just listen to them back to back.

But setting that aside, I hope everyone out there has the best Christmas they can with as many friends and family members around them as possible.

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Steve Jobs, discussing subscription music services in 2003, as referenced by Dave Mark on The Loop:

You pay to download 500 songs and one day you stop paying your subscription fee and your entire music library goes away.

He was right. I don’t want to pay $10 a month for the rest of my life just to listen to music. Especially when my favorite artists, none of whom are “top acts”, will ever make meaningful money from the deal.

I’d much rather buy a digital download directly or, even better, a physical CD of the album. I will own that music for the rest of my life and I’ll be supporting artists along the way.

➝ Source: loopinsight.com

Every year growing up, my family would get together at the grange for Thanksgiving. We’d have food, play board games, compete in two-hand-touch football, and listen to music. The music was usually played on a boombox that my family would bring and A Christmas Album by Amy Grant was in heavy rotation.

Although we don’t go to the grange anymore, I’ll still have this album on repeat for much of the day — it’s one of the best Christmas albums of all time.

➝ Source: album.link