<![CDATA[Pianist Magazine]]>So, I have had an online subscription to Pianist Magazine for.... a very long time. But, stupidly, I rarely look at it because I don't like the format. Rather than being an online site for the whole magazine (like Atlantic Monthly or something) it's like flipping through a pdf version of a paper magazine. And as a result, I don't look at it very often.

But I really, really should. (or one thing, I pay for it! For another, in addition to the regular articles etc., each issue includes several scores of various levels, and there's a recording for each score so you can listen, learn from that, or even just decide whether you want to play it.

I just learned of a really beautiful piece that I have decided I want to play (as soon as I get home later!)

Does anyone else subscribe?

Here is the piece, if anyone's curious:

Link to video

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/topic/47/pianist-magazineRSS for NodeTue, 21 Apr 2026 22:56:14 GMTSat, 01 Jun 2024 19:52:00 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Tue, 04 Jun 2024 01:31:09 GMT]]>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....

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/432https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/432Tue, 04 Jun 2024 01:31:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:17:06 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/429https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/429Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:17:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:08:40 GMT]]>Yeah, you probably want to get a larger iCloud. I have one. It's a racket, just like those subscriptions!

/curmudgeon

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/418https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/418Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:08:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:29:54 GMT]]>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…

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/417https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/417Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:29:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Mon, 03 Jun 2024 09:55:35 GMT]]>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. -_-

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/398https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/398Mon, 03 Jun 2024 09:55:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Mon, 03 Jun 2024 05:55:07 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/397https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/397Mon, 03 Jun 2024 05:55:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Mon, 03 Jun 2024 01:45:12 GMT]]>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… 😑

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/393https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/393Mon, 03 Jun 2024 01:45:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Mon, 03 Jun 2024 01:18:44 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/392https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/392Mon, 03 Jun 2024 01:18:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Sun, 02 Jun 2024 02:19:24 GMT]]>😁

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/352https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/352Sun, 02 Jun 2024 02:19:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Sun, 02 Jun 2024 02:16:38 GMT]]>Hang onto them. Vinyl is back, doncha know...it'll just be a matter of time....👍

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/351https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/351Sun, 02 Jun 2024 02:16:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Sun, 02 Jun 2024 02:01:53 GMT]]>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!!

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/348https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/348Sun, 02 Jun 2024 02:01:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Sun, 02 Jun 2024 01:44:45 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/347https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/347Sun, 02 Jun 2024 01:44:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Sat, 01 Jun 2024 23:11:36 GMT]]>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!

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/339https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/339Sat, 01 Jun 2024 23:11:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:24:40 GMT]]>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!

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/333https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/333Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:24:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:42:31 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/331https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/331Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:42:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:29:26 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/330https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/330Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:29:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:16:51 GMT]]>Big Al, I did indeed download the score! I'm going to try my hand at it tonight. It's absolutely lovely!

Thanks for the tip re my sig, I need to make a sig here don't I! I wonder if my old WTF sig is still accurate etc. I will have to check!!

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/329https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/329Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:16:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pianist Magazine on Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:06:52 GMT]]>I don't subscribe, but I hope you can download or otherwise obtain that etude so you can play it.

By the way, your signature at WTF with the link to your music does not yet exist here. You might want to add it.

Big Al

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