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Aux@lemmy.world 6 months agoWhat happened to curating your music library?
Nothing. Because that was never really a thing. What you’re describing was/is just a hobby. And, like most hobbies, it’s small and niche relative to the industry as a whole. Most people were listening to music for free through radio since forever. Then TV was added into the mix. Paying for music, unless it’s a concert, is just not really a concept humanity is familiar with.
jae@reddthat.com 6 months ago
I agree that many people listened to music for free via radio but I’m skeptical that it was just a hobby? What about the Zune/iPod days? People went through more efforts to curate a library, no? Whether it was with music downloaded illegally, or actually paid for via iTunes…
Aux@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It was rarely curated. You just listen to the radio, hear some cool tunes, buy the albums of the artists, the end.
jae@reddthat.com 6 months ago
That’s what I meant by curated! Taking the effort to buy some cool songs/albums of songs you liked. Is there a connotation to “curation” that I don’t know about?
shikitohno@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I think curation implies more depth and selectivity to the collection and perhaps a certain amount of active effort to obtain and maintain it. You’re talking about hearing a song you like on the radio and clicking “buy,” where the sort of person who would talk about their curated library would spend their weekends digging through crates looking for the final LP released on some random record label in 1985 they need to complete their collection of what is, to them, the pinnacle of early house music as released in Yugoslavia prior to the fall of the USSR. Even if it’s not as hyper-specific as that example, I would expect them to at least have things meticulously tagged and organized.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 months ago
I think people who care about music make some false assumptions about people that kind of don’t. It’s like the xkcd about quartz: xkcd.com/2501/