Took the Idagio plunge

[jon-nyc]

I finally signed up for Idagio, the streaming service focused on classical music.

It’s awesome. You can select a piece and it will show you all the recordings it has, by artist.

Examples:

[jon-nyc]

Wow. 300 performances of the Eroica.

That’s almost as many as Kluurs has.

[89th]

@George-K does this make your MASSIVE collection of pr0n classical music obsolete? I've been struggling on whether to continue organizing my digital music (much collected 15-20 years ago) on my computer given the availability of streaming services these days.

[jon-nyc]

I still have my music but I’ve stopped buying more.

[kluurs]

I was using Primephonics which had a similar ability to Idagio. It was then acquired by Apple with the implication that Apple would reasonably soon offer an enhanced version of Primephonics under the Apple name. It's now a year later and nada. I too am acquiring less physical media as 1) I have a lot already and 2) most of the new is available digitally. I do acquire digital downloads - usually in high-resolution files which is probably idiocy as most geezers can't hear much above 9,000 hz anyway and then there's the din of air cleaners and tinnitus that probably knock that down some more. OTOH, there aren't that many recordings I seek these days.

[Klaus]

I was also a short-time subscriber of Primephonic, which seems to be similar to Idagio.

I liked the overwhelming selection of recordings, but after a few weeks I still found myself rarely using it, so I couldn't justify the expense.

[jon-nyc]

@kluurs said in Took the Idagio plunge:

I too am acquiring less physical media as 1) I have a lot already…

I would like to nominate this sentence as the biggest understatement in TNCR history.