Pianist Magazine
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I used to subscribe to Pianist magazine, way back when I actually played the piano. I liked the paper magazine/audio/CD format back then.
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Yeah, I still prefer paper, but an audio CD would just be a pita at this point. So I do prefer online, with online files for audio. I just wish the format was online-optimized. I imagine they still have a print version, so that's probably why they do it this way -- less overhead than having to make a print version and unique format for online.
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Yes, I hate flip magazines online! I always have to zoom in to be able to read them, and that’s pretty cumbersome.
No way to play CDs on my computers any more, but I just inherited a 5 CD changer for our stereo system; mine died several years ago. But then I discovered that our amp/tuner had died, so I had to buy a new one so I could use the new CD player…just trying to keep up here!
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AdagioM, yikes!
I still have an external CD drive with a USB port so in theory I can hook that up my laptop to listen ... but I haven't done that in a long time.
And yeah, navigating flip magazines online is a huge pain. But I will try to do it more, if for no other reason that to listen to the scores in there!
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I hadn’t realized that the tuner/amp had died because I only used it for the CD player. Usually we just play music on our Amazon Alexa device. But we have gazillions of LPs and CDs, and I wanted to listen to some of them again.
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Ugh, I have so many CDs too! and I have some really nice score collections from Japan with matching CDs too… And I just realized that my current laptop goes have a usb port
Probably the usb to C port adapter will work but this tech is getting obsolete pretty fast!! -
Hang onto them. Vinyl is back, doncha know...it'll just be a matter of time....
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I'm so annoyed at the demise of ITunes. I lost so much music when they folded. I'd placed a lot of my CDs on there so I could listen to them on my computer or Sonos, and I had a LOT of my concerts (accompaniments) and regional/state competitions on there as well. They're now all lost, because it never occurred to me to put them on the cloud because they were on ITunes.
Blergh.
Like everyone else, it sounds like, I have a pile of CDs that I would love to digitize for no other reason than to clear out some space, but there's no real way to do that now and link it to a player--at least not that I know of.
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Ugh, that’s awful Nina!! I hate how precarious digital media products are. And I really hate the move to subscriptions for everything! (Except magazines, that’s ok)
I have avoided Apple Music thus far, and all the others…
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I don’t think we need to digitize our CDs, mostly because we have a Spotify account and it has most of the music that we have on CDs. I just like being able to play CDs if I want to set up 5 of them at a time, instead of constantly changing what’s playing on Spotify.
We have some pretty obscure things on vinyl, so we bought a turntable with USB to digitize some of those LPs, but it was really cumbersome so we didn’t do many.
I don’t like having subscriptions for everything, either.
I didn’t quite realize what happened to iTunes! The music that I had in iTunes is in Apple Music on my phone. I have a lot of music from my various singing groups on there. I still play those playlists. I don’t know that there’s a way to add more songs, so all my newer stuff is just in Voice Memos.
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I don’t like Spotify bc I don’t have a paid subscription and I hate the ads. I usually listen to piano music on pandora. Somehow it’s slightly (only slightly) less annoying. I listen to Spotify when I listen to j-pop.
I found that with iTunes, whenever it upgrade, it would delete recordings I had in there of piano music I recorded myself. So I think any thing that wasn’t purchased is vulnerable — and that would include downloads from cds you own. -_-
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Mr. AM wanted the Spotify subscription, so that’s the music service we use. No ads, because of the subscription. This is why I don’t want to also pay for Apple Music, or Pandora. One music service is plenty, thanks.
I haven’t upgraded the iTunes app on my computer in forever. I don’t even know if it’s still possible to do so. But it takes an eternity to sync my phone to my computer, so I just don’t do that any more. I guess it’s time for me to pony up and buy iCloud storage for my devices…
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Yeah, you probably want to get a larger iCloud. I have one. It's a racket, just like those subscriptions!
/curmudgeon
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Subscribed to Pianist online back when. I don't like digital magazines and I don't like the clutter of magazines and books that pile up. Codgers get that way, ya know.
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I agree with you! But I'm going to make a point of looking through their scores more often, if for no other reason than I can listen and follow along, which I always love doing.
Plus, I'm paying, soo....
