@Longlin: Late Date

@RIP: LyricFM mostly good, but not enough dedicated time to classical music.
Mystery Train great for exploring different music.
They need to get rid of that Marty in the Morning though. There’s plenty of what he’s playing on other stations. We need classical at that time of day, not nonsense small talk and music from 1950s.

@Longlin: Creedon is a clown, like Joe duffy but thankfully less determined to lecture his listeners
bring back PHANTOM FM

@brian pope: if there’s plenty of what Marty plays on other stations at that time then listen to those and let people who enjoy Marty continue to listen to him.

@Stanley Marsh: mobile data drops to frequently to make it enjoyable when driving. Patchy data signals across the country

@Stanley Marsh: Exactly,I have a large collection of vinyl and cds,with some cassettes,and I use digital files stored on my computer.I love them all.

@Thomas O’Brien: I use MP3s for this very reason, particularly while travelling. But don’t have to lug around hardware or a stack of flimsy plastic discs.

@Kevin Collins: There’s a lot of people who never got accustomed to streaming, have major issues with the way the companies treat artists, love a physical item, and know that the best way to support vast swathes of the people who release music, is to buy their album on whatever format.

There are a lot of labels and artists pulling their work from streaming services too. Some of the financing and ethics of the huge corporations are incredibly dodgy. Cassettes tend to be a feature for specific types of music that lean underground and lo-fi, although I admit they seem to be manufactured for a lot of albums these days. I’m not sure if many of them are listened to outside of underground and independent circles though. CDs are an affordable option (in comparison to the skyrocketing costs of records) that give you a physical copy, the chance to properly support the artist and handily can also be ripped at a high quality for digital listening!

@Stanley Marsh: I also have a pile of CDs gathering dust on a shelf. I digitised the contents of them years ago. Do you still buy new ones?? Nostalgia aside, there are literally no benefits to physical format music (with the obvious exception of vinyl).

@SerotoninWars: Platforms can remove content from their library, but not from your shelves.

@Kevin Collins: I have more cassettes than any other media. Have several cassette machines too. At 15 quid a pop for a branded new blank, I don’t buy many new ones.

@Kevin Collins:
I don’t have to lug around anything.
I converted some of my music to digital and I can listen to it on my phone.
No going on line and paying a subscription, I own it and can listen anytime.

@Kevin Collins: cassettes worth a fortune these days. very collectible.

@Kevin Collins: Cd and vinyl aren’t bulky, a suitcase is bulky. CdD’s not cassettes are not brittle. Enjoy streaming sub par quality on Spotify.

@ben wu: Absolutely. It’s far too late for me to adapt to streaming as my main way of listening to music. Of course, I’ll check stuff out on YouTube and preview music, but if I really want or love an album, it’s getting purchased.

@SerotoninWars: For most of my genres, there’s honestly not a lot of new music that I’d be buying, so while I’ve somewhere near 3000 cd’s, they are almost all ripped to flac.
It’s really only the Electronica/Techno stuff that I still buy, but it’s only from a few places that allow download for local play.

@ben wu: I’m still finding plenty of new stuff I want to grab, but I get that there’s a critical mass stage where you become more selective when you have lots of stuff in various genres already. I’m super selective with electronica and techno now as I’ve tonnes of the stuff already. Often find that no matter what cutting edge tools are used it just sounds like 90s music, but sharper and brighter. There’s definitely great stuff being released still, if you dig, but man alive there’s so much filler to wade through!

@SerotoninWars: Well yeah, but frankly, there’s not a whole lot in the Rap/Metal/Classical/Reggae genres that interest me too much, and I have the vast majority of what would listen / re-listen to.
Electronica, and particularly Techno, is the only types that I still regularly buy, but my tastes lean to stuff like minimalist or acid, so it’s often more about supporting labels

@Kevin Collins: I can get most albums on CD , second hand for between €2 and €5 on adverts.ie, Vinted , Discogs, Amazon, EBay or in charity shops. I upload them to my pc and then download them to my phone and play them on the pc or via Bluetooth anywhere. That’s less than half of what I’d pay to buy it from a streaming service. Plus I have all the info on the sleeve notes. I had a bunch of albums on a pc before that I had downloaded from streaming services. The pc got damaged and I lost everything. That’s the main reason I still buy CDs. I might have to wait a bit to find a second hand copy of a cd but most of the music I listen to is more than a few years old anyway. I have all of my CDs stored in bookcases in my living room. I think a large physical music collection looks great too.