Reclaim your music collection ✊
After a good run, the iPhone came out. Unlike the iPod, the iPhone used smaller faster solid state drives. Our music collections no longer fit on the device. We now had to pick and choose in advance which albums we'd take with us.
However, the iPhone had one thing the iPod didn't: cellular internet connectivity. This made a new reality possible: access entire label's catalogs for the cost of a CD per month. No music taking up precious storage (which now also houses our photos and data) and constant access to the latest releases. Win-win.
Or is it? How many artists did you forget existed because the albums you owned were hidden behind recommendations for the masses? How often have you been unable to change songs or buffer because of connectivity issues? And when your subscription expires or the service is shut down, what's do you have for all of the money you've spent? Nothing. Nada.
Maybe it's a sense of nostalgia. Maybe it's longing for software and devices that just work. But I'm switching back. I've re-purchased an iPod Classic so I can keep my entire music collection with me again.
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@jamesvandyne @dwvcd Clearing out some boxes at my parent's when I was back in the summer, I found my old iPod. Charged it a bit to see the time capsule of the albums on there and was immediately struck by how pleasant and personal it felt. Not MiniDisc levels of cool (tho I brought my MD player back too), but much more practical. Would be fun to curate my listening on there. I have same prob with UK & Japanese Apple accounts. The official Apple Sock kept the device very clean over the years!
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@jamesvandyne this. at some point I will turn all my vinyl albums into audio files for personal use on a player of some kind. I do hold my nose and pay for spotify—I like benefits including sharing playlists with friends and having family plans. but one infuriating thing is the inability to listen to the original album that was released by the artist. so many remasters and remixes that I don't want to hear
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@dwvcd Right? I can’t even do family plans with Apple Music because I have a US Apple account and my wife a Japanese one. Back to renting cds from geio.
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@alanb @dwvcd “Pleasant and personal”, that’s exactly what is missing from these music (and other) services.
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@jamesvandyne That’s wild— and a big coincidence: This evening I was watching a great video about MiniDisc and recalling how excited I was as a younger me in 2000 when I learned that it was LEGAL for me to go to a Tsutaya and RENT music CDs and copy them. Part of my fascination with Japan as a teen was due to JPop, CityPop and Jlectro. My MD collection was HUGE. I did manage to digitize most of it in 2015 after buying a very expensive Sony NetMD player that could turn them into MP3. But I only got thru half the disks. The player got Hard-Off’d a while ago and I have zero MD machines now. Sony MiniDisc: The (Not) Forgotten Audio Format That (Never) Failed
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@jamesvandyne Another one happening to me: Music I liked was delisted from the service. I still have Apple Music since it’s part of the Apple One shared with the family. But all the music I really love and is important to me I have locally on my Plex server. In the new year‘s cleaning I also found my old iPod classic. After reading your post, I am curious trying it again as well. Can we still sync music to it now that iTunes is no more?
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@hectique I reckon they should still sync just fine. I didn't even think about the de-listing...
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