I personally love my collection (records, CD, digital) and enjoy sharing the experience with friends. I don’t use streaming unless you count soma fm at work. Sure, I’ll use YouTube to listen to some albums I don’t own, but if I truly like it I’ll buy or download it, usually on bandcamp or direct from artist if I can.

For me, I don’t believe the human brain was ever made for this level of stimulation (we shouldn’t really have 24/7 access to social media either. Go back to the “family PC” model). People have very little connection to music anymore becuase there’s too much and its too easy to access. I can barely remember all the members names in my favorite bands or all their albums. There’s little chance anyone even knows the artists of the millions of songs they’re streaming, or the story behind them.

  • pipe@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Is there some music database that lets me put in an artist I like, and why I like them, to get recommendations?

    I ask because often what I like about a band is specific and different from the norm in their genre. I like Pink Floyd in large part because of Waters and Gilmour’s vocal styles, whereas I don’t listen to Rush because I can’t stand Geddy Lee’s vocals. But if I put in “I like Pink Floyd” I get offered Rush because they are adjacent, genre-wise.

    Being able to say “I like Band A for their recording production and bass guitar” and get recommendations for other artists with similar (or even opposite if I could invert the search!), that would be a dream! “Artists like Rush but with vocals not like Rush” 😅

    (Rush is a great band and I have lots of respect for them and Geddy’s talent as well, I wish I could like it. This is purely a me problem)