Streaming and how much does one need to own

[medjuck]

I'd love to see a streaming service for jazz similar to the Criterion Channel-- i.e. featuring rarer things not available on Spotify et al and giving the equivalent of liner notes. I'd be willing to pay way more for that especially if I thought the artists were getting a fairer share. 

Edited August 13, 2023 by medjuck

[Brad]

I have about 2,000 CDs and a couple of hundred records.  If you count YouTube and XM Radio I stream but to me streaming means listening to services like Qobuz or Tidal and I don’t do that.

I have a limited amount of space so if I buy more CDs, I have to get rid of some. It’s a slow process because buyers have a lot of sellers to choose from but it’s getting there. I have also sold off some records but that, too, takes time for the same reasons. 

[mikeweil]

I own close to 10.000 CDs and LPs, the latter may be 10 to 15% as I keep only LPs that are not on CD or the latter sound inferior. I have a hard drive filled with MP3s etc. but rarely use it. I tend to burn CDs of the music I want to listen to more often. I rarely stream music, I do not want to pay for any service that I probably will not use that often, and I would have to change my hifi setup to do so. I have more music that I will have time to listen to, and I am still buying too much. I will have to downsize sooner or later, which I already do with my library once a year to keep it at its size, but need a second hand dealer for that. I sell my used books myself at a satisfactory rate, but am unsure about selling discs myself at current shipping rates and all the effort that goes into the process. 

And I love reading liner notes. 

Edited August 13, 2023 by mikeweil

[Rooster_Ties]

About 150 LP’s, but probably ~2,000 jazz CD’s (plus another 2,000 more non-jazz) — so maybe ~4,000 total CD’s.

I really need to cut all that by 1,000 — but at least I’m not up to the 7,000+ I had back in Kansas City a dozen years ago.

I use Pandora all the time — most as a ‘radio’ — but at $5 a month, it’s commercial free — and I can stream specific albums for 30 minutes if I watch one video-ad (which is what I use to listen to specific albums when deciding whether to buy them or not).

I don’t do downloads — and other than a ~100+ CDR’s (mostly OOP stuff I can’t find, of vinyl things that can’t be had on CD), I really have the mindset that I want to own legit (CD’s) copies of anything I want to actually listen to in the coming years.  And I try like hell to avoid the euro-PD stuff as much as I can (unless it’s truly material than never got issued in the first place — so live grey-market stuff is ok, just not cheap PD reissues of commercial stuff).

Streaming is great, but other than Pandora (as the ‘radio’), I only do streaming to get more familiar with stuff I think I wanna buy — or to listen to stuff I’m actively searching for physical copies of.