Do you care about other people's music?
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@Ghost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxz4fdizIvE
Such a good teenage heartbreak angst song for me at the time.
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@Kestrel said in Do you care about other people's music?:
@Pandora said in Do you care about other people's music?:
Please never ask me to listen to anything though, I can't get those 2-5 minutes back so the answer will always be no, and I will resent you for making me crush your fleeting hope.No. Luckily I don't like you and can deny you anything without guilt.
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@Wretched said in Do you care about other people's music?:
Such a good teenage heartbreak angst song for me at the time.
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@Thenomain said in Do you care about other people's music?:
Am I the only person left on the planet who doesn't use Spotify?
You are not alone. I never used Spotify.
I have digitized my old CDs and open a YouTube video with a movie track to run in the background now and then. I like music, I even make my own at times. But I don't have a need for it to get other things done.
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I use Google Music. It comes with YouTube premium (so basically no ads) which is extra value, and their song libraries are pretty comparable to the big three streaming services' so... why not.
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Sometimes I'll open an ambient techno Shoutcast stream while I am coding but other than that, I mainly listen to music from my massive MP3 library. I never really saw the point to any of the commercial streaming services. Why suffer through ads (or pay again) to listen to music that I already paid for?
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@Darren said in Do you care about other people's music?:
Sometimes I'll open an ambient techno Shoutcast stream while I am coding but other than that, I mainly listen to music from my massive MP3 library. I never really saw the point to any of the commercial streaming services. Why suffer through ads (or pay again) to listen to music that I already paid for?
In my case, an MP3 collection I'd curated over years was on a harddrive that died.
So I'll gladly pay for Spotify at this point.
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I didn't get huge into music until I was a teenager, then I was poor and pirated. It was basically streaming music that was my first, legitimate ownership of music rights, and it's felt really relieving to be able to do that - plus, I've found a ton of things I probably never would have found otherwise through using Spotify.
It was pretty much a lifechanger for me.
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I'm kind of in the middle when it concerns other people's playlists, because my general character preferences tend to not have lyrics where I see a lot of people where their choices are lyrical. It makes sense, but my own musical preferences (I'd say 80/20 instrumental/lyrical) means I usually don't listen.
There are times when I'll get the mood to randomly go through playlists, but it's not often at all. Like @Selira I was not very much into music, and that lasted until I was around 25 years old, give or take. People would ask me what I listened to in school and I'd be like "I don't." Now, at 38, I've found my overall preferences as mentioned above. I veer a bit from New Age as a style; I prefer orchestral and "background music" by nature. Thomas Bergersen and Ivan Torrent are two of my personal favorite composers but I don't like everything they do because certain styles I just go 'eh'.
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Where I play, music/video is integrated into the client, so if you're running a scene, say a party for example, you can enter Youtube links via an ambient command for everyone to hear (or mute, if they so choose). This says more about the scene itself than the lofty ideals of the character, which feels a bit less like a wank-fest.
Tinuviel about 9 hours ago
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@Pandora That is a very neat idea. I really like that.
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@Selira said in Do you care about other people's music?:
I've found a ton of things I probably never would have found otherwise through using Spotify.
It was pretty much a lifechanger for me.
I like Spotify for similar reasons.
A friend of mine boycotts Spotify for political reasons, that being that they don't pay artists fairly.
However, considering I never would've heard of many of these small-time artists without the help of Spotify, and I happily spend money on them far more directly by buying concert tickets and so on, my own conscience feels pretty clear on it.
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I don’t boycott Spotify, I just already use Apple Music. I already see what people playing games like. I read the music threads on Soapbox. YouTube also has a lot of stuff I can check out. There really is no dearth of discovering music these days and no right or wrong way to do it.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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@Thenomain said in Do you care about other people's music?:
There really is no dearth of discovering music these days and no right or wrong way to do it.
I do hope there wasn't any sense on this thread that anyone was trying to imply this, but for my part, that was not my intention.
