One of the things that I am really starting to appreciate with Google Play, is that it plays albums truly continuously, without that dreadful pause in between tracks that f.x Wimp (Tidal) has.
One of the things that I am really starting to appreciate with Google Play, is that it plays albums truly…
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Actually – I need to try that. I’ve been playing through web UI on Windows so far.
Christopher Neumann Ruud Tested it now on my Nexus 4, and yes – on Android too. Zero glitch or gap. Turned off wi-fi now to see if it handles it well over 3G as well.
I love there is no pauses between songs on concept albums on Google Play Music. That’s how the album was made. That was a mess on TIDAL (Wimp).
Christopher Neumann Ruud With wi-fi off, and having cleared the music cache – the Android Play app still plays without glitches or gaps on my Nexus 4 over 3G. Awesome!
Haven’t tried Chromecast yet.
Still prefers vinyl or live for music… canned goods just does not taste that well.
Gjermund Gusland Thorsen I’m so old that for all practical purposes – it doesn’t matter which medium or hardware I use.
Lars Fosdal You believe that The Schumann resonances does not apply to you? To this date digitaly reproduced sounds has not erected the hair in the back of my neck.
Schumann Resonance can erect the hair on the back of your neck?
Gjermund Gusland Thorsen – Well, then I am in luck – because that happens all the time to me. Most recently, the EP from Aurora Aksnes.
YouTube:
Google Play:
https://play.google.com/music/m/Bsk63fpphx5kjxixw4x6pzyjud4?t=Running_With_The_Wolves_-_AURORA
CHUA Chee Wee That was a metaphor, for the rest stroke, if you did not read my last writings it makes no sense what so ever.
Lars Fosdal Which speakers? Perhaps the Audeze LCD-3 are not good enough? Oh, no when I put on Metallica’s Orion on turn table hair on the body actually erects, must be the source, can’t be the speakers.
Gjermund Gusland Thorsen I have an old set of wooden cabinet Creative Cambridge speakers (2+1). The kind that makes an audiophile cringe and say “that’s not proper speakers”. Again – when you pass 50, you hearing is so imperfect that it doesn’t really matter. IMO, the music experience is not in the perfection of sound – but the expression in the music. It does help to have good sound – sure – but it is not the one criteria which defines the experience – once you pass the level that is “good enough”.
The experience of good music is in the lack of reproduction, or if it has to be reproduced; as analogue as possible.
Right now we are not having a social interaction; at best we are pen pals.
Gjermund Gusland Thorsen A digital reproduction of a 78RPM stone platter can still give a good music experience. It’s not about the medium, but about the music. If that wasn’t the case, there would be no radio, no music industry.
Technically, we are social media keyboard acquaintances… not that the analogy makes sense in a musical context – apart from the medium doesn’t matter bit.
Comments on a social forum are like short chats with people you meet at a convention. You might bump into the same person many times – and the dialog is like this one – short exchanges of opinion.
But lacks everything that truly matters; the vibes, the moods, the weather, just be, and yet perception on both ends can change the meaning to avoid the absolute.
So, basically you are saying that recordings and social media is a failure and a waste of time. Why are you here?
Christopher Neumann Ruud Tested on the Chromecast – unfortunately it doesn’t play seamlessly via Chromecast. But… my TV sound system takes hi-def Bluetooth, so I can play seamlessly via that.
Lars Fosdal I’m saying social media is false stimuli.
Which is really, really far off the topic – even if accurate.
IMO, saying that you require perfect sound to appreciate music, is like saying you require perfect vision to appreciate visual art and that looking at a digital photo of a great painting makes it impossible to experience it’s greatness.
As for social media – It is false stimuli if you are in it for self appreciation and seeking validation.
If you are in it for discussing shared interests with other people – it has merit as a decent medium for having such conversations.
If you use it like me, posting or sharing stuff that interests, amuses, puzzles or annoy you – is that false stimuli? If so – to whom?
Do you think I am “in it for the +1s”?
I stumbled upon G+ through picasaweb, I mainly use G+ to browse pictures, and to a certain extent a stream of “news” and when possible inspiration.
I see that certain technical stuff can be discussed to a certain extent, so can timelines.
I do not require perfect sound to listen to music, I’m questioning at which level music has the potential of being appreciated when reproduced digitally. So far I have not yet found a satisfying way.