The Dark Side of Streaming Your Music ★ Acoustic Tuesday 214

Acoustic Tuesday | Guitar Routine Show

Tony Polecastro

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4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Streaming music has a lot of benefits. But it can also have some downsides. In this video, I explain the five main disadvantages to streaming music and show you how to avoid them. Music streaming, whether it's through Spotify or Youtube, has to be one of the greatest expansions in music consumption. For a few bucks a month, you have access to millions of songs. You have seemingly infinite choices. But there are plenty of negatives to this easy consumption of music. Do you remember the days where you had to go to a music store, search for an album, purchase the album, and invest time into making that album worth it? With streaming, you lose all of the process and ritual that made the discovery of new music magical. We've lost the cultural touchstone of sharing music through word of mouth recommendations. Instead, we're fed recommendations by an algorithm — which is incredibly helpful at times, but lacks a human touch. There are plenty of reasons to like streaming music, but there is a dark side to all the convenience that streaming music provides. This episodes seeks to address some of those issues. In addition to talking about the dark side of music streaming, you'll get a big update from Heartbreaker Guitars on everything from new models to supply chain explanations. Featured in this episode...- Heartbreaker Guitars - Furch Guitars - Molly Tuttle - Chicago Music Exchange - Billy Strings

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0:00.0	Guitar geeks by default are music geeks. Maybe not to the degree of seeking out a first pressing of the Beatles White album, but we're definitely somewhere on the music geek spectrum.
0:11.4	And we now live in a time where you can listen to anything by any artist anytime you want to with the various music streaming services.
0:19.7	Sounds pretty amazing, right? Well, there's
0:21.8	a dark side to music streaming as well. And on today's show, I'm going to state my case
0:26.2	against digital music streaming.
0:29.6	Hey, TAC family, welcome to episode 214 of The Acoustic Tuesday Show. This show is all about
0:35.4	bringing fun, focus, and progress to your guitar journey through
0:38.4	my weekly guitar geek list, plus success stories from your fellow TAC family members.
0:43.0	Speaking of, TAC family member Ben has played guitar for 30 or so years, but these last two years,
0:49.1	he hasn't played at all. Well, Ben's decided to pick up the guitar again, and on today's show, you're going to learn
0:54.7	what he's doing different this time and how he's setting himself up for success. Plus, you're
0:59.3	going to get a sneak peek at what the TAC family is working on this week, and it's a lick named
1:04.1	after one of the best mustaches in show business. Yes, you heard that right. You're also going to
1:09.6	get your weekly dose of acoustic
1:11.1	news you can use, which includes an important update from Heartbreaker guitars, an extension
1:17.0	of the celebration of one of my favorite holidays, and three news stories that will warm
1:21.6	your heart and remind you of how significant the guitar is in your life. But first, let's go
1:27.2	ahead and dive into the reasons why you should be skeptical of music streaming services.
1:31.3	Now, I know I said I was going to do the holiday gift guide this week, but I'm going to go ahead and push it to next week.
1:38.3	Now, since I do have five reasons, and since this is the Acoustic Tuesday show, I've got to do a countdown.
1:45.6	I must do a countdown.
1:47.1	So let's go ahead and dig in.
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