On r/DigitalAudioPlayer

[grayestofghosts]

I've been spending some time on the digital audio player subreddit (and now have a Snowsky Echo Mini and matching Linsoul 7HZx Zero:2s* and probably shouldn't be looking there anymore, but the old Sony stick-style mp3 players are strangely appealing), and there are a decent amount of young new users out there who have... never owned a music library, like at all, they just have had Spotify or whatever their entire lives and have never bought music. I guess I shouldn't be surprised but it just seems insane to me. I'm not exactly a full scale digital hoarder but like, if you like something, get a copy, and save it locally. You never know when it's going to disappear.

*I've had the Echo Mini for a while but I just got the IEMs a couple days ago and I am hearing sounds I have never heard before in old songs and they're way more comfortable than my porta pros. I do recommend, if you're into that sort of thing.

Comments

[tozka]

I bet they've probably done something like Youtube music downloader at some point, but yeah kids who came up with streaming services rarely seem to buy/download files. They also rarely seem to bookmark anything. I ran into a lot of probably-teenagers on TikTok who read fanfics all day but don't even have an AO3 account and didn't know they could download fics.

[grayestofghosts]

It's so crazy especially after FF.Net not allowing downloads and then randomly deleting fics. Like! save your favorite fics!!!

[tozka]

Well, usually they figure it out the first time a fav fic gets deleted, luckily. ;D

[axolotls]

Hard agree. I'm so glad to have everything I listen to locally, particularly as some of my absolute favourite tracks aren't available anymore (they were once only on Soundcloud).

[grayestofghosts]

I don't have downloaded absolutely everything I listen to, but to be honest, one of the fun things about getting a dap was that loading all my music into it meant that I saw all this music I had that had gotten buried in my system! And it was still good! It also made me realize that when I was younger I bought a lot of single tracks that I probably want to get the full album of... eventually.

[axolotls]

Hell yeah!

[zavodilaterrarium]

My main reason for never having bought music is technically cause of my parents (who do buy a lot of music, mind you). They kinda just made me adverse to spending money on a lot of things in their efforts to instil economic responsibility. I have some songs downloaded, but definitely not as many as I should, and I downloaded them for household-rule-breaking reasons lmao (aka circumventing certain device time limits)