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dmay
Cassette tapes and players have become trendy. I still have a couple of Walkman tape players along with a Walkman CD player, all in good condition.
Re streaming, I am clueless as to what it is. If I remember correctly an article I read some weeks ago, Neil Young hates streaming audio. He says its worse than MP3s and we all know how he feels about the MP3 format.
Re the Beatles, I'll listen to them on albums I still have, many of which are mono. I think I also have some mono Stones albums packed away. I guess playing them will be my version of streaming audio.
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dmay
Cassette tapes and players have become trendy. I still have a couple of Walkman tape players along with a Walkman CD player, all in good condition.
Re streaming, I am clueless as to what it is. If I remember correctly an article I read some weeks ago, Neil Young hates streaming audio. He says its worse than MP3s and we all know how he feels about the MP3 format.
Re the Beatles, I'll listen to them on albums I still have, many of which are mono. I think I also have some mono Stones albums packed away. I guess playing them will be my version of streaming audio.
Streaming is good if you just want to hear/listen to something. Whether it's on headphones at a desk on a computer or your phone plugged in to a sound system (or Bluetoothing it) while you cook or wash dishes etc or on your phone with ear buds walking-running around wherever.
Neil Young probably doesn't do any of that so of course he's got a shitty attitude about people wanting to listen to music. I used to agree with him, the mp3 bitch, but once I figured the hell with it, I still get to at least hear the tunes and enjoy what I'm doing, what does it matter.
I took one of those tests to compare mp3 to wave and I think it was 2 other options. I have great hearing. Well, I wasn't able to tell the difference and wound up picking what I didn't expect to pick for all but one time.
That's when I came to the understanding that, with portable devices and just blasting tunes from the computer, the sound quality isn't important. Because you can still hear the songs just fine.
Sitting and listening... well, if you're not concerned about quality then streaming is fine. The quality may be less than CD but as I just described, that also may be difficult to prove from just your speakers in your living room. I've done streaming for releases I've not made up my mind about buying yet or did not know of. Headphones or speakers. I generally end up buying what I can on CD, which, fortunately, is still a lot. I like the entire deal, the art, even if it's smaller than a vinyl LP.
But when I want to really enjoy it I tend to play CDs in the living room. However, when I'm working on something or can't make up my mind, I plug my phone in so I can jump around (using Google Music via wi-fi - it has my Windows library on it; there's also YouTube with entire albums on posts, Pandora, SoundCloud and Spotify as well).
Once you get over the idea of it and just do it, you forget about it and understand that the quality part is not so important at those times.
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dmay
Cassette tapes and players have become trendy. I still have a couple of Walkman tape players along with a Walkman CD player, all in good condition.
Re streaming, I am clueless as to what it is. If I remember correctly an article I read some weeks ago, Neil Young hates streaming audio. He says its worse than MP3s and we all know how he feels about the MP3 format.
Re the Beatles, I'll listen to them on albums I still have, many of which are mono. I think I also have some mono Stones albums packed away. I guess playing them will be my version of streaming audio.
Streaming is good if you just want to hear/listen to something. Whether it's on headphones at a desk on a computer or your phone plugged in to a sound system (or Bluetoothing it) while you cook or wash dishes etc or on your phone with ear buds walking-running around wherever.
Neil Young probably doesn't do any of that so of course he's got a shitty attitude about people wanting to listen to music. I used to agree with him, the mp3 bitch, but once I figured the hell with it, I still get to at least hear the tunes and enjoy what I'm doing, what does it matter.
I took one of those tests to compare mp3 to wave and I think it was 2 other options. I have great hearing. Well, I wasn't able to tell the difference and wound up picking what I didn't expect to pick for all but one time.
That's when I came to the understanding that, with portable devices and just blasting tunes from the computer, the sound quality isn't important. Because you can still hear the songs just fine.
Sitting and listening... well, if you're not concerned about quality then streaming is fine. The quality may be less than CD but as I just described, that also may be difficult to prove from just your speakers in your living room. I've done streaming for releases I've not made up my mind about buying yet or did not know of. Headphones or speakers. I generally end up buying what I can on CD, which, fortunately, is still a lot. I like the entire deal, the art, even if it's smaller than a vinyl LP.
But when I want to really enjoy it I tend to play CDs in the living room. However, when I'm working on something or can't make up my mind, I plug my phone in so I can jump around (using Google Music via wi-fi - it has my Windows library on it; there's also YouTube with entire albums on posts, Pandora, SoundCloud and Spotify as well).
Once you get over the idea of it and just do it, you forget about it and understand that the quality part is not so important at those times.
Makes sense Gaslight, and there's definitely some advantages to it from what you're saying and what I've been reading.
I showed a younger friend of mine my giant 15 x 15 foot (and growing) wall of vinyl/cd/cassette music collection I'm in the process of building at my studio.
He kind of scoffed, smirked, and laughed saying 'just think, you could fit all of that into this mini contraption'. I smiled back and thought to myself 'what a f*king idiot' haha.
That's some cute trolling you've done there. You've already posted that once in this thread, nobody responded to you, so you do it again. "look at me! look at me! I hate the Beatles, they're boring, look at meeeeee!".Quote
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Svartmer
Funny thing that Neil Young hates streaming and mp3. He hasn´t produced a good sounding album in decades.
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frankotero
No kidding. A very rocking Please Please Me. Wish he would have done this in Europe too.
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Turner68
ComeOn, Hairball, and Disco I don't think I can do better than your top 5 lists!
loving the Beatles 1+ DVD - I recommend it!
Here are the most-played songs on Spotify, for Worldwide and US ( there are differences...)
Here are the top 10 Beatles tracks on Spotify, according to global data:
1. "Come Together"
2. "Let It Be"
3. "Hey Jude"
4. "Love Me Do"
5. "Yesterday"
6. "Here Comes the Sun"
7. "Help!"
8. "All You Need Is Love"
9. "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
10. "Twist and Shout"
And here's the same list, based on U.S. figures:
1. "Come Together" - remastered
2. "Hey Jude" - remastered 2015
3. "Here Comes the Sun" - remastered
4. "Let It Be" - remastered
5. "Twist and Shout" - remastered
6. "Blackbird" - remastered
7. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" - remastered 2015
8. "In My Life" - remastered
9. "She Loves You" - mono/remastered
10. "Help!" - remastered
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jlowe
Interesting, none of the Sgt Pepper tracks feature.
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drbryant
Strawberry Fields Forever
Hey Jude
A Day in the Life
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
In My Life/Something (tie)
I was tempted to include Come Together or Revolution to get some rock on the list, but let's face it, unlike our boys, that just isn't what they were best at.