Tuesday, September 18, 2012

To stream or not to stream

Recent articles point to services such as spotify as meeting their musical needs, including new music discovery, but for me at least, I beg to differ.

Regardless of the number of tracks potentially available, I need a mechanism that matches my personal musical history and taste to some type of smart playlist mechanism.

My playlists are based on Artist, Genre, Year - but it is the personal SELECTION of artists that is crucial. And in addition, the odd and the obscure that is not likely to be included in a commercial service.

Can I create playlists comprising a select list of artists? And then refine by genre and year.

Should I split my stream into two components - commercial releases of a selection of artists on Spotify, complemented by the rarae and obscure on the iPod?

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