Do you listen to more or less music now than you did 15 years ago?

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31. I do that with slacker radio

And while I had some dry spells over the years where I didn't pay much attention to music, now the digital ting has made it a whole new world, of hearing lots of stuff you didn't know about, or different versions, by different artists, and like said above, exploring artists who people who like your artist also listen to. With slacker you can do the paid version and have no commercials, unlimited skipping of songs you don't like when streaming, the ability to create your own song lists, and offline sets of albums, song lists or even radio stations which contain a decent number of songs you may not have even heard til you are playing it offline. When you mark songs as favorites, it can also keep a list of all the artists you marked favorite songs for, and the songs.

I loved pandora but it started dropping the connection and became totally unreliable, slacker is better anyway. And I still have a thing for sirius radio.

But there are fun apps that hold radio music you can use to stream music on without a subscription (slacker has a free version too)

You tube is a great place to do this same kind of artist discovery, some of these can be downloaded too, but lots can't.

I just discovered a new favorite artist Warren Haynes thru slacker and you tube.

So music is all new and fresh and maybe no longer a permanent collection, but a flow that moves and changes.

Another treasure I found this way is Stevie Nicks' demo version of The Chain. Just her and her guitar and it is hauntingly beautiful and different. She and many others could go far doing unplugged acoustic stuff. Songs people can sing to.
Here it is

And her demo Dreams

Good topic!