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"A decade of music is lost on your iPod" - is this real??
Posted on 1/14/23 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 1/14/23 at 2:56 pm
Esquire is garbage, but usually I can at least understand what they're whining about. I don't understand the article from that link, though. The claim is that "from 2003 to 2012, music was disposable and nothing survived" and this is supported by some narrative around people getting iPhones and throwing away their iPods and the iPhones only holding 14 songs. WTF? Really?
I've always bought my digital music through Amazon. I started doing this in 2006, and over the years the service has changed radically (pricing, terms, cloud vs. device storage, even the format) but there's nothing I've ever just lost.
The article mentions "Christina Aguilera's big band phase"- I went and checked my Amazon account and some of those songs, purchased in 2006 or 2007, are still there.
Is the guy who wrote that article just computer illiterate or something? Surely there was a way to avoid just losing all your shite, right? Download it to you Macintosh, maybe?
I've always bought my digital music through Amazon. I started doing this in 2006, and over the years the service has changed radically (pricing, terms, cloud vs. device storage, even the format) but there's nothing I've ever just lost.
The article mentions "Christina Aguilera's big band phase"- I went and checked my Amazon account and some of those songs, purchased in 2006 or 2007, are still there.
Is the guy who wrote that article just computer illiterate or something? Surely there was a way to avoid just losing all your shite, right? Download it to you Macintosh, maybe?
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Posted on 1/14/23 at 3:26 pm to Porpus
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The article mentions "Christina Aguilera's big band phase"- I went and checked my Amazon account and some of those songs, purchased in 2006 or 2007, are still there.
Big Christina Aguilera fan, eh?
Posted on 1/14/23 at 3:39 pm to Giantkiller
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Big Christina Aguilera fan, eh?
Is that not OK
?Posted on 1/14/23 at 3:52 pm to Porpus
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Is that not OK
Absolutely. I was always more of a Britney man myself.
Posted on 1/14/23 at 4:25 pm to Porpus
It looks to me like the author went through a period of liking one-hit wonders which when combined with the modern media dupe of paying for stuff with no way to preserve it makes it seem as though music got "deleted".
Posted on 1/14/23 at 6:41 pm to Korkstand
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It looks to me like the author went through a period of liking one-hit wonders which when combined with the modern media dupe of paying for stuff with no way to preserve it makes it seem as though music got "deleted".
That was kind of my take. Pretty weak.
There is some attempt at a point about the kind of artist that survived that era vs. the forgotten ones, and how that breakdown differed from before, but it's pretty ineffective. I guess you could argue that music has become more disposable or something, but don't use K.T. Tunstall as your example. She just sucked.
Posted on 1/14/23 at 10:12 pm to Porpus
Did someone say Christina?
Posted on 1/15/23 at 8:07 am to MSTiger33
That was a couple years before the "big band phase" 
Honestly I like her first album as much as anything she ever did after. Same with Mandy Moore.
Honestly I like her first album as much as anything she ever did after. Same with Mandy Moore.
Posted on 1/17/23 at 5:19 pm to Porpus
People are stupid. That’s why we hear about people ripping their CDs to their iPods ( with no WAV backups) and throwing away their CDs.
OTOH, it’s possible to find great titles at places like Goodwill and church thrift stores.
OTOH, it’s possible to find great titles at places like Goodwill and church thrift stores.
Posted on 1/17/23 at 7:33 pm to MSTiger33
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Did someone say Christina?
I like that song. It has a nasty edge to it. Love the synthesizer parts.
Posted on 1/17/23 at 11:42 pm to Porpus
I think what the writer is trying to say, in way too many poorly chosen words, is that music from that time period is forgotten/forgettable.
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