Have you embraced Streaming?

I feel exactly the same way. I even prefer holding a 45
in my hands as opposed to knowing I have the mp3 on my
computer. (Although having 3000 songs on my iPhone at the
same time is an amazing experience the 17 year old me
could never have imagined.). I appreciate streaming, but
there is something special about music in its physical
form.

No, never. No reason to.

A good percentage of streaming services have the incorrect 45 and like Dan said above, can pull their music at a whim. I cant embrace streaming and would rather have the physical music.

Its happened too often that an artist complains they are not compensated and yanks all their songs from streaming.

The better question -- Is the CD dead yet? Its almost there. Nothing new comes out on it (exception: Taylor Swift and Adele every few years). Otherwise digital is the way to go in this new age.

I do agree having thousands of songs available to you ripped rather than have thousands of CD's is way more appealing. I remember struggling to assemble even the top 10 during the early 2000's when the P2P era was. Storage wasn't what it was now. My teenage self would have sat for hours organizing music if technology was as advanced as it was now.

Can't do much in an era when 128 bit rate mp3 downloads were considered "fast" and USB storage wasn't in existence yet and AOL took forever to log in. Ah the memories.

Edited by PopArchivist

The current #1 song on the Hot 100, "Lose Control" by Teddy
Swims, sold only 8,000 downloads last week.

I buy physical product AND enjoy streaming. In the past year or so, I've bought new CDs by Kelly Clarkson, Pink, Benson Boone, Ava Max, Pentatonix, Lauren Spencer Smith, Anne-Marie, Meghan Trainor, Belinda Carlisle,
Michael Bolton, Eurovision 2023, some European artists, and others. In most cases, though, I can only buy WAV/flacs from Qobuz or 7 Digital. When I can't, then it's m4a from iTunes, but that's only rare occasions when I
have to go "that low", lol.

But there's over 200 new songs I buy each year that I discover because I
listen to 2 weekly Spotify lists that are curated based on my tastes. It's my
"new radio" - as I really never listen to FM radio anymore. And most of what
makes the top 40 I don't like (most of the Hot 100). But I do like a fair
amount from Billboard's Hot AC & (regular) AC charts & SXM's The Pulse.
So streaming on Spotify is definitely something I embrace. It's how I get
turned on to most of my favorite songs each year!

And I agree - I don't like the fact that labels can take down any songs they
want. It's one reason why I always buy digital downloads of songs I like.

I'm guessing that CDs will not be made some day. (C'mon, 40 years from
now??) But like vinyl, after they gone, I predict they'll be back.
Unfortunately, I'll probably be gone by then, too :)

What's scary to me is if apple takes down their iTunes store, and Qobuz,
7Digital & other sites like those go away. Then there will literally be no way
to buy anything - on CD, or WAV format, or mp3s. Literally, the record labels
will choose to have ZERO record sales - just streaming royalties. For people
that want some permanent digital format, what will be left to do? Record off
YouTube, Spotify and sites like that?? Will that day come, guys?

Edited by EdisonLite

I have 100% totally embraced SELF Streaming via playback of rips of my CD, SACD, Vinyl from my on-premises NAS devices.

The question is that really considered streaming?

P.S. Yes I do have off-site back-ups that are never more than 2 weeks behind in data.