New album Foregone out February 2023

[MySweetShadow01]

What's the point of this argument?

 

[eochaid]

Dudes... I'm just going to say this. I don't even listen to Spotify. I have all the music that I like in my computer and my favourites in my phone.

I also don't vote on metal sites or any other site.

What do I mean? I don't think that neither Spotify or online polls are representative of anything.

And don't coke with Spotify about numbers because we don't know the numbers of the people who don't use Spotify at all.

So, a poll only represents the people voting on it but Spotify also only represents the people using it.

 

[DE4life]

What's the point of this argument?

You can say this about basically everything Slave kicks up a fuss about

 

[eochaid]

What's the point of this argument?

Slave is preparing to go out tonight so he needs a reason to start predrinking.

 

[anzi]

For me, not cleaning the kitchen or taking my dog out. But slave gave me the motivation, cheers.

 

[DE4life]

Slave is still yet to understand that less is more.

If he just says "in my view random poll on a Finnish site isn't representative of the bigger picture" then fine, fair enough. Why an entire fucking thesis containing stupid statements like "metal sites are not representative of metal fans".

 

[eochaid]

Of course they are. And, no matter how we look at it, Spotify is not. It's just representative of views but we don't know if those views come from metal fans or anyone else.

My wife listens to IF at Spotify from time to time but her favourite music is classic rock or pop, Queen, U2 and KPop.

 

[eochaid]

And I won't even mention (of course I'm doing it) how spotify makes the random playlists unless we pay for premium. Which means that it is theplatform that decides what are we listening at when picking an artist discography. The few times that I've used, and played IF discography, I had to hit advance an insane amount of times to skip songs from albums that I don't like. And we don't know if that still counts as a reproduction or what it does.

 

[MySweetShadow01]

And I won't even mention (of course I'm doing it) how spotify makes the random playlists unless we pay for premium. Which means that it is theplatform that decides what are we listening at when picking an artist discography. The few times that I've used, and played IF discography, I had to hit advance an insane amount of times to skip songs from albums that I don't like. And we don't know if that still counts as a reproduction or what it does.

That's true for Spotify on phones. On your computer you should be able to play the songs in order, just with ads. Though I've used Spotify premium for some time now so they may have changed it.

 

[DE4life]

I don't even use Spotify as it doesn't let me filter out bands who haven't created at least 5 albums. Smh, absolute basics.

 

[eochaid]

That's true for Spotify on phones. On your computer you should be able to play the songs in order, just with ads. Though I've used Spotify premium for some time now so they may have changed it.

But I don't need it at home since I have all of my music in the computer and original cds and vinyls.

 

[eochaid]

I don't even use Spotify as it doesn't let me filter out bands who haven't created at least 5 albums. Smh, absolute basics.

And don't forget that there are generational differences. A lot of time, the preferred platform for listening to music depends on the age of the listener. I don't know many people of my age and 10 years younger or older that listen to music at spotify. Ok, lets say five to eight years.

 

[MySweetShadow01]

And don't forget that there are generational differences. A lot of time, the preferred platform for listening to music depends on the age of the listener. I don't know many people of my age and 10 years younger or older that listen to music at spotify. Ok, lets say five to eight years.

I'd assume Spotify is preferred by zoomers and younger millennials.

 

[eochaid]

So I guess. At least, it doesn't seem to be very popular among Boomers and X-Generation.

 

[DE4life]

Idk, my dad is 59 next month and mainly uses Deezer. My girlfriend is older than me and can't understand why I still purchase physical media.

I think a lot of it comes down to personality and preference. Old ways using mp3s still works for me, streaming platforms work for others.

 

[eochaid]

There are always exceptions. And I can only talk about what I see in my environment.

 

[MySweetShadow01]

Idk, my dad is 59 next month and mainly uses Deezer. My girlfriend is older than me and can't understand why I still purchase physical media.

I think a lot of it comes down to personality and preference. Old ways using mp3s still works for me, streaming platforms work for others.

Lol my dad turned 58 recently and he listens to the radio, particularly SiriusXM. I don't think he listens to much music outside of the car though lol. He listens to classic rock/metal and occasionally country.

 

[The Grayfox]

I'd assume Spotify is preferred by zoomers and younger millennials.

Somebody gifted me a premium membership a while back and then I just got used to it, so I use it consistently now. I do like using it in my car especially. It’s much easier than changing out CDs (do these even exist anymore?) or having to fill up phone space with music. I have a large mp3 library (15,000+ songs) that I still listen to on my PC, which I use constantly for work. Long story short, Spotify is convenient for me so I use it.

 

[The Grayfox]

I don't even use Spotify as it doesn't let me filter out bands who haven't created at least 5 albums. Smh, absolute basics.

Common problem. I was listening to Blackbraid and it struck me; “wait a minute, this is too new and he doesn’t have 5 albums yet, why am I listening to this trash? I’ll revisit this in 10 years if he’s still making music. If not, then it wasn’t worth listening to in the first place.”

Anders, in your infinite wisdom, you have given me purpose in life. All hail King Anders. God he’s so cool.

 

[DE4life]

Yeah man, can't believe I've wasted the last week listening to Fellowship when those amateurs have only released one album. Lmao. Rookie mistake by me. Will check back in a decade and then maybe they'll be worthy of my time.