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Feb. 3rd, 2019 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kutsuwamushiI'm still pretty old school when it comes to listening to music. I like the control of owning my music, rather than streaming it. Now that memory is so cheap, I don't even need an external hard drive anymore; I can take my music with me anywhere. It's kind of funny that streaming would become so dominant around the same time it really became unnecessary - at least for me.
Anyway, I still do listen to streaming services to discover new artists. It's kind of amusing when the algorithm is just totally wrong about what I want to listen to.
I've been on a synthwave kick - think Magic Sword, and Spotify keeps trying to get me to listen to 80s pop hits, like Flock of Seagulls, and so on. Not that I'm against 80s pop hits, but they're different things!
Of course it's obvious why the algorithm does this. They both tap the same vein of nostalgia, so there's a huge overlap in audience. But it does make it a lot harder to find the type of music that I'm looking for...
I have also heard Toto way more in the last two weeks than I've ever heard Toto before.
Anyway, I still do listen to streaming services to discover new artists. It's kind of amusing when the algorithm is just totally wrong about what I want to listen to.
I've been on a synthwave kick - think Magic Sword, and Spotify keeps trying to get me to listen to 80s pop hits, like Flock of Seagulls, and so on. Not that I'm against 80s pop hits, but they're different things!
Of course it's obvious why the algorithm does this. They both tap the same vein of nostalgia, so there's a huge overlap in audience. But it does make it a lot harder to find the type of music that I'm looking for...
I have also heard Toto way more in the last two weeks than I've ever heard Toto before.
