A Room You Can't See
www.terrygodier.com
A short documentary about music formats, streaming, and the quiet thing that disappeared when your library became endless. Oh, and a musician (me!) trying to work out whether the music changed, or I did.
  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17 days

    Interesting take past the format jibber-jabber and onto the cultural loss of community…

    I think what we have to let go of is the idea that we are going “to make it big,” that a hobby can just be a hobby and you can be really good and make social connections with it and help others without making much money from it.

    But, for format jibber jabber, I have to say having physical DVDs/BluRays is a much more fun social experience when I have guests than scrolling a streaming feed. Especially for movies–because they are movies I have seen and liked enough to want to see again, or movies that I want to see. Basically, someone can come over and pick out whatever they want from my library and I’m happy.

    For TV shows, I think a Jellyfin server is better.,

    For music, I’ve left off streaming and started ripping CDs I found in thrift stores and libraries. My curation kinda sucks. I can’t just dive into some new music I found–though I could if I wanted to include Soulseek and other options–but the result is I a) spend more time with the music I have and b) give more opportunity to music I might have skipped.