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How much of my money am I supposed to fork over to streaming companies? Tidal, Qobuz, SoundCloud, YouTube Music, Deezer, Amazon Music, Apple. And how much work am I supposed to invest in migrating my playlists between them? I don't want to invest my time in digging through every new artist (SoundCloud?), at the same time, I occasionally find a deep rabbithole I want to go down. How do I go spelunking if the archive isn't deep and rich?

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The same way as it was always done: through effort.

Before you'd need to visit different record stores, hitting one every few days to check their latest in catalogue. Find the hidden boxes with low print releases, listen on a player and skip the needle around track grooves. Or have good friends recommending you stuff.

It got easier but I think we need to realise to find the signal on a sea of noise will probably require effort for a long time. Given time enough every new information discovery tool gets flooded by the noise, almost like a form of entropy.

I thought that technology was supposed to save humans from the torture of having to put forth any effort, so that we could just lay back and have all of our wants immediately satisfied. At least that's the utopia I was promised in Wall-E.

"We have a [record] pool?!"

I just migrated my playlists from Spotify to Apple Music. Cobbling together the scripts to do that (without paying a third party service) was hard.

This is part of why I basically gave up on this and just went with SiriusXM - I like linear programming - less effort for me to engage with.

There are plenty of great radio stations around the world catering to all sorts of audio experiences.

Pick a random place on earth and then search for nearby radio stations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Pana...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Ital...

https://radio.garden/

Radio Garden's great. But I just found out that it no longer allows a UK listener to listen to overseas stations, so that means it is now much less attractive ("licensing reasons"). What a shame.

Try also an app called Radiooooooo

This is beautiful, thank you.

Oh sure - but I like something with the ease of use from my car too.

Though thats not all, I also have a receiver feeding into an 1/2w FM modulator and providing whole house music at home.

Who has asked you to do anything?

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