Will streaming platforms destruct music?

I proceed the subject of culture in the stream, leaning over music, that is, the art field that concerns me most due to the fact that I am both a listener and a creator.

Among the music lovers, the sentences about streaming platforms are divided, and discussions about this proceed and ignite participants to red. Is it my opinion that streaming platforms will destruct MUSIC?

I'm not hiding that I've taken up the subject present in consequence to my opinion. Łukasz “Łyczka” Łyczkowski from squad 5 in the morning, who was my guest in the conversation on the friendly channel WBREW CENZUR. Łukasz is simply a traditionalist who recognizes ONLY FISH music media, i.e. CDs and phonographs. If individual has not seen my conversation with him, I mention to the cycle "Despite Anticulture" – all Monday at 8:00 p.m.

Get to the point! I'll start by saying that I'm a lover and a collector of physical media with music. In my collection I have almost 1,000 albums with various genres. I spent a immense part of my childhood and my youth in local music stores, bookstores and video rentals, which I will besides tell you about 1 day. It kind of shaped me, made me feel like buying music.

Music stores – I visited all those that were in my city – they started the passion of collecting music. Krzysztof Kochanowicz, who is my colleague today, worked in 1 of them and I owe these wonderful years of beginnings of collecting. As a kid, a teenager, and then a increasing young man, I went to a music store almost all day. It was magic, due to the fact that there I could not only buy music, but besides perceive to it and most importantly – TALK ABOUT IT! I started with tapes – first old editions of TAKT etc. (part of Readers most likely remembers them), then authoritative releases with wonderful inserts. Later came the era of CDs. I bought them, listened to them, looked through photograph cartridges, read lyrics and frequently sang along with my favourite performers. Besides, I'm inactive doing it due to the fact that my favourite music always buys on CD. The physical average has always been, is and will be the most crucial to me!

The most hard years for phonography came with the dissemination of mp3, a digital recording that could be downloaded from the net through servers specified as eMule. It truly killed the marketplace and robbed artists! I mention you to articles from the early 2000s, the first decade of which was a full demolition of the phonographic market. all music went to the net – without control, without the artist's cognition and without pity for the label. EVERYBODY could throw and download music from the network – FOR FREE and, of course, NOT LEAVELY! It was 1 big, global theft!

However, in 2005 YOUTUBE was created in California and it began to establish a certain order. Of course, this was not an perfect solution, and the first years of operation of this platform resembled the proverbial "free American", so the artists approached it with large reserve, but it was a decision towards controlling and regulating music on the Internet. I won't bore you with the past of music streaming due to the fact that that's not what I mean.

Today we have many platforms, and the most popular of them are YouTube, Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, Deezer and BandCamp, which I talked about in a material with Łyczko. They all let you to perceive to music online and most importantly are legal! There are inactive quite a few purists who believe that specified a solution, first, kills music, and second, offers a much poorer quality thereby taking pleasance in listening. I would like to briefly present my attitude towards music online, and I will do so from 2 perspectives.

As a listener, I love streaming platforms. Thanks to them, I can perceive to music whenever I want and wherever I want. As a starting point, I accept that I love music and have lived it since I can remember. Music accompanies almost all the time.

As a kid by the bed, I had a tower of Polish production – it was UNITRA Eltra CS202 which my father gave me. It was loud, dense as hell, it played very well, it had the ability to "lost" or copy cassettes, it besides had separate adjustable advanced and low bands and headphone input. In a word – the best (because mine)! It made me love listening to music. I besides frequently fell asleep with Tonsil headphones on my ears, and later Panasonic. A small later, WALKMAN, a portable device for listening to tapes, appeared, and this was a real breakthrough in my life, due to the fact that from now on, music could accompany me besides outside the house. I almost didn't part with the Walkman. Boy, that was beautiful.

Today listening to music is not so magical, due to the fact that thanks to the net it has become simply easy. I had most likely all the devices to perceive to music mobilely – after the walkman there were discoman (on CD), mp3 player, iPod Classic, iPod Nano, and later alleged music phones. I went so smoothly to perceive to music from streaming platforms on the phone, via wireless headphones. I admit – yes, I am a storyteller and I love news in this industry.

The music that is listened to in this way is, indeed, torn from this magic – the celebration of the moment, so whenever I have the opportunity, I scope for a physical medium, but I will not hide – by far the most music I perceive to through the stream. I usage the premium account on YT due to the fact that it's legal and pays artists. It is not any form of advertising on my part, I usage this platform mainly from habit, and competitive applications besides have a rich offer. Of course, only a fewer artists make good money on it, but before the day of streaming from music there lived much little performers about what in a moment.

Streaming platforms offer a powerful base with music and apart from listening to the proven performers act as active search engines for me. A large part of the music I admit through the app, besides due to the fact that the algorithms of advice work within it. all time we choose a creator, we get outside of his music, too, others like that. So I get to know fresh music in 2 ways – thanks to the recommendations of friends and friends and thanks to the jutubek algorithms. However, I always effort to buy albums of performers, whose music I peculiarly like, and I encourage everyone to do so due to the fact that it is inactive the BEST form of supporting musicians and the best quality of reception.

Yes – stream is inactive a quality worse than CD or vinyl. Even though the platform offers increasingly "lost" files, inactive decent stereo equipment and physical media offer us the best experience. Of course, the manufacture is developing and we already have digital and analog converters, i.e. reception enhancers and streamers, devices that let to perceive to music in a truly amazingly good quality erstwhile connected to the amplifier and the internet. Still, in addition to the undisputable quality of sound, sound with the disc and good audio equipment gives me the top pleasure. Especially erstwhile this is done as a alleged "hearing" or social gathering to perceive to and discuss music together! Unfortunately, with an intense lifestyle I can afford specified pleasures highly rarely, which is why I value steraming platforms so much.

From the creator's point of view, I besides appreciate this form of getting to the listeners. I note – these are only my feelings and I respect the difference of opinion presented by traditionalists while sharing them with you. I'm going to tell you here that a keen collector, with whom I sometimes discuss music, is besides a col. Adam Laughter.

I'm just happy to scope people with my music in all possible way. I love playing gigs, and this experience will not replace anything. If there are people who will buy my band's albums, then I feel unspoken joy due to the fact that we make authorial music by putting quite a few work and heart into it. However, I am a Realist, so I do not like to be offended by the technological advances I myself use.

It is the year 2025 and the vast majority of listeners usage net applications – IT IS FACT! So, technically, less people will buy my record, but are you sure? In order to sale records, you had to get to the media – radio, tv and music press and believe me – it was not easy! It's inactive not easy or fair, but it's a very separate subject. Today, thanks to technology, anyone can evidence music and then post it online. Of course, this generates hard competitions and galimatias, but besides allows to scope a wider audience.

Still fewer can live from music, but thanks to the existence on streaming platforms specified enthusiasts as I can scope listeners, share their work, and consequently, for example, play concerts outside their city and sale records! This is simply a large deal for me! So I am not offended by the reality that exists independently of me. Of course, I see its disadvantages, specified as the failure of this circumstantial magic of interacting with music and the flood of cheapness aimed at fast gain. In my opinion, however, the culture of street music has more advantages than disadvantages.

Because you see – erstwhile we take all of this from technology, we take the gadgets, we halt reasoning about the average or the equipment, it is yet about LOVE FOR MUSIC and wanting to interact with it. Returning to the starting point – I love music regardless of whether I perceive to it from the best vinyl, audiophile stereo equipment or headphones, or even a creaking speaker!

On the another hand, I am glad erstwhile my music gives individual pleasure, no substance how he listens to it. Communication with music is besides an entirely analog experience, due to the fact that no substance how digital the media or equipment will be – our proceeding is ANALOGY, and the experience of art is emotions that cannot be captured in the binary system.

In conclusion, I answer the question contained in the title – no, in my opinion, streaming platforms will not destruct music if people make and perceive for love of it.

Bartosz Iwicki

P.S. In the photograph my music corner and recently purchased records by listening.

Think Poland, No. 19-20 (11-18.05.201025)