youtube killed the iplayer star

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1425697]

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[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Haha I thought "cos it doesn't let me skip tracks" too and then removed it thinking how flighty does that make me sound. Skip-happy fingers on my mp3 player which is contantly on shuffle have changed my listening habits more than anything else I guess.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I agree! When I can listen to any given song any time I want, whether on Youtube or Spotify or in my own itunes, I don't see the point in tuning into something which is more than likely to play a number of songs I don't really want to listen to. It's such a passive means of consumption and kind of archaic now.

I download a few Rinse FM funky sets now and then, they work as "sets" rather than the usual radio programme, but even then I never listen to them b/c they're all 4hrs long.

I hate listening to people talk, and radio DJs mostly seem to be picked for how annoying they can be.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Annoying talking people on Radio 4 = good for forcing self out of bed and into shower. Not for nothing does my getting-up usually commence 10 seconds into Thought For The Day.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I LIKE that I can't skip things or pick the tracks tho! It actually makes me sit down and listen to things that I wouldn't bother with normally; my outrageous number of music channels has made me such a flighty b1tch wrt listening to anything I don't a) already know or b) like within three seconds, which is hardly The Point, I feel.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I like listening to stuff I don't already know but I can do that in my own time, and without listening to someone else's predetermined playlist!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Eh, I only listen to the obscurer things where they pretty much turn up and play their own records with the odd nod towards whatever it is they're meant to be doing on the show. I dunno, maybe I just don't have many/the right channels for getting told to listen to new music? I s'pose a lot of it's not having the internets at the minute.

Am currently listening to an MJ tribute show on 1Xtra on the iPlayer and realising how horrifically bad my knowledge of his music is/was; think I only knew about five songs. Am literally only just realising how staggeringly important he was. Err. Why does anyone let me write about music? :/

[koganbot]

I think it's quite useful to listen to stuff I didn't know in advance I was going to be interested in, and to have the whole lot force fed until I get a lot of it second nature, BUT, I know longer have time because, e.g., you lot are always introducing me to new stuff anyway.

[koganbot]

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