I still have that 100GB+ music collection on my laptop, all curated by myself (with the help of last.fm), organized in folders and with proper ID3 tags, which I spent years building when I was young and had no better things to do.
And you know what? This is the very reason why I never got on spotify or any of that stuff. I just don't see why I would give up the perfect (for me) collection and use some online service where I have no guarantee that I could even listen to the same track a year later.
I have music that I like and listen to, and I like to keep listening to it.
In addition to a large mp3 collection, I am also buying CDs and vinyls. Everything I can to build my own music library. The only online service I use for listening is YT, which has some unique content (live shows that are not found as albums) - but even these, I tend to download and save, because you never know...
I had it the same way. I even built my own playback statistics service since Last.fm/Audioscrobbler were too limited to my taste.
Then I just lost interest in updating my music library. Didn't want to pirate any more, I did buy a new CD every now and then but couldn't be bothered to do the EAC ripping + tagging even for them. So I kept listening to the old collection without hearing much new music. And then I switched to Spotify to get the new music conveniently.
I still have that 100GB+ music collection on my laptop, all curated by myself (with the help of last.fm), organized in folders and with proper ID3 tags, which I spent years building when I was young and had no better things to do.
And you know what? This is the very reason why I never got on spotify or any of that stuff. I just don't see why I would give up the perfect (for me) collection and use some online service where I have no guarantee that I could even listen to the same track a year later.
I have music that I like and listen to, and I like to keep listening to it.
In addition to a large mp3 collection, I am also buying CDs and vinyls. Everything I can to build my own music library. The only online service I use for listening is YT, which has some unique content (live shows that are not found as albums) - but even these, I tend to download and save, because you never know...