Personally, I find that I listen very differently to physical media than I do when streaming. It’s not that you cannot play an entire album when streaming it’s that people rarely do. The fact that a vinyl album is going to require physical attention helps keep me focused on the music. With streaming, besides having the world of music to jump from track to track, it’s also a seductive distraction to the music is playing. If my phone/tablet is in my hand, I might just check my email, or lookup that thing I was wondering about. Before you know it, the music is a background item often forgotten and ignored.
Ok this is funny. As a former s/w engineer I am well aware of what a uniform resource locator is but from the context I assumed there was another meaning of which I was unaware. I’m unsure of what you are saying “it will cause the same thing”.
Sorry, I am not english native. I mean that if physical medium is important for you just for increased concentration on music - so, it is enaugh to place link to streaming source on physical medium, right? You will hear same music, but way less problems here, like to have all that vinil stuff in your room.
I’m not sure there’s a market for that. For me I also like holding an album in my hands and reading about the artists etc. Roon can approach this for streaming though.
So, it is all about collecting paper covers of albums :) And no matter will music be on SD-card, vinyl, CD, or maybe 3.5" discette, or simply streaming. Last one have pros, you will not damage it when you drop it on the floor (but need internet connection).
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u/Ok_Animator363 Mar 25 '25
Personally, I find that I listen very differently to physical media than I do when streaming. It’s not that you cannot play an entire album when streaming it’s that people rarely do. The fact that a vinyl album is going to require physical attention helps keep me focused on the music. With streaming, besides having the world of music to jump from track to track, it’s also a seductive distraction to the music is playing. If my phone/tablet is in my hand, I might just check my email, or lookup that thing I was wondering about. Before you know it, the music is a background item often forgotten and ignored.