I doubt if anyone will ever reminisce about the first song they streamed. (First single bought with my own money here - Supertramp - The Logical Song) I don't rember all my LP and CD purchases but I certainly remember all the shops I frequented especially New Milton Woolworths. One LP I do remember getting was Kate Bush - The Kick Inside (IMHO her best album) which I ended up with after taking a scratched record back to Virgin Records only to find they didn't have a replaement of my original choice in stock. That would never happen with streaming ! Re the Maxell UR tapes we have discussed those before. They seem to be the one tape type still readily available in the likes of Tesco, Wilko etc.
interesting topic. Walkman and boombox units will be around for many years to come. The future of walkman (demand) will be better than 8 tracks and tube radios. The future of boomboxes will be even better than walkmans . A boxed walkman or boombox will keep increase in value. This price rise is much higher than inflation rate. but cars will go up in price as well. BUT i do not think that you can ever swap your walkman for a car. I mean a decent car. @TooCooL4 you got amazing collection
@Longman I don’t remember the first streaming but I do remember using Napster to download a modest mouse song in the late 90s! One song took 25 minutes to download on our state of the art 56k modem dial up, which we had because my dad had a fax machine and work gave him a modem for it.
I remember disagreeing with my mum who claimed it was not a problem to download in huge volume from Limewire!! Admit I used Limewire a bit and remember some bands using guerilla tactics, uploading / sharing terrible quality mp3 files that you would download wrongly thinking you had bagged a new album. Steely Dan did this with maybe ‘two against nature’ - every track you downloaded was a terrible 92kb/s mp3 of a track from 1979 (don’t take me alive)
Limewire! Yes I remember! And you also got so many viruses with your songs! I had a really early Samsung mp3 phone which could hold 15 songs. It got stolen from my bag at work. All I remember is it had Blur’s The Universal on it. I was going to say I feel old, but I also love my tape decks so I must be even older
Cassettes undoubtably have a literal finite shelf life due to the magnetic structure and chemical matrix of tape formulation. So they are a ticking time bomb so to speak in a general manner, depending on how one stores a cassette. I still have Cassettes over 30 years old that sound new,but I keep them in cold storage, not something everyone can do. Vinyl, on the other hand takes very little maintenence (an initial cleaning and then basic dust removal, proper storage) , most record collections sit on a shelf for most of their life regardless if played or not. You are confusing the two formats. Aside from possible damage of vinyl, one can have a record passed on from one generation to another. Vinyl as well, is one of the very few formats which can be played on antiquated equipment or modern. It can literally be played without electricity. This makes vinyl the legacy format in my books. I've been selling rare vinyl worldwide for almost 20 years, and vinyl sells more than ever. it has it's peaks and valleys of popularity but it is always in demand to some degree, if you know what you are selling and who your market is. Vinyl will be around till the end .. literally, regardless of popularity.
If we start having the radiation / solar storms the media speaks about every so often - hardcore solar flares, magnetic media will be at risk. Harddrives, and cassette tapes may be erased instantly. Keep this in mind Cassette lovers ! Cassettes are at risk big time due to the lack of shielding on the case.
Since google now drives search results to commercial prospects, it may be doubly difficult for people to find old music as the 'new modern version' will pop up instead of the classic - it already happens now, in 20 years will be terrible. I do listen to streaming music on Itunes, but with the random factor. I would hate to rely on the repetitious streaming services in general. You can hear the mp3 'birds' on most music that is streamed even the 'better' services when I"m at a friends house who has a service.. I'm always surprised people pay for the garbage. The compression is so bad due to both the low bit rate, and the fact people are streaming it somehow in their house.. boob tooth or wi-fi killa. makes it lose even more fidelity. But .. they simply don't care or notice to care.. and that comes to the conclusion of what music is to most people, just a nostalgic niche which reminds them of their favorite beer commercial. LOL
"taken the keyboard to the main warehouse" means they are posting it online to get more $$$. Greedwill does that in my area.. the smaller local store in my town has stuff taken to the closest city where the Greedwill warehouse is and they throw it all in for their 3 levels of online events. No profit goes to the town it came from. All Video game stuff, Hi-Fi, Music equipment, jewellery, toys, computers, Records.. and that leaves the store pretty much empty full of ratty clothing.
It always amused me at work when a manufacturer quoted data retention of 100 years for a newly released EEPROM. Show me the sample that was used to prove it. If you simply extrapolate test results then it is quite possible that some unforeseen process will be what destroys it. Disc rot is an example of that. In contrast many old types of media have proven track records. Recently I have been scanning my parents old 35mm slides, some taken in the 1950s. The Kodachrome ones in particular still look really good, and I don't believe there has been any degradation since the say they were processed.
Where were you downloading from? I never once got a virus from any MP3.. you were not downloading MP3s obviously. "so many viruses" - so how many is 'so many'?
I obviously don't know the situation in other countries, but in the UK there is far more choice of radio stations than there used to be, and many of them are broadcasting classics. I still remember back in a about 1980 a group of us being in a car at about 1:00am, tuning through the MW band on the radio and not finding any music at all ! Still my employer moved a few years ago I have a 45 minute drive into work. I nearly always listen to "The Golden Hour" on Wave105" a semi local station here. https://planetradio.co.uk/wave-105/ Each morning and evening they play tracks exclusively from a particular year, from early 1960s all the way through to the noughties, although I am sure they play more 80s years than any other decade. On Friday they played U2 "New Years Day" which I enjoyed a lot as I had it on a compilation Various Hits Album back when it was first released and thought it was one of the best tracks. They have various other similar programs such as Teenage Kicks playing all the tracks people in their 40s and 50s might have heard at their school Disco. They certainly aren't the only station doing this. in fact their are radio stations on DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) devoted entirely to the 80s. A shame about the over the air bit rate though. https://absoluteradio.co.uk/80s/ ken1980s might want to check that one out. If you are more into the 1970s https://absoluteradio.co.uk/70s/ while if you want a station that has been going since the 1960s, and which the film "The Boat that Rocked" was loosely based on http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html
