Not sure about OP but I have all manner of blues and jazz recordings unavailable via streaming. There are also lots of obscure Japanese game and rock recordings that aren't in Apple or Spotify though to Spotify's credit, they have a lot of game content. Streaming is mostly in service of licenses and margins which as a shareholder, that makes sense to me.
A wide range, actually. It's more about the time period and artists than musical style. If it's earlier than the 90s and/or from an artist who wasn't big on the charts, it gets more likely that they're not available except on used CD.
In that sense, the depth and variety of good music that is available has been shrinking for a long while now. The advent of streaming seems to have made it worse.
I can curate my own library of bookmarks within [some other body's music library] without CDs; of course I can.
I can do that with iTunes or Spotify or Tidal or Amazon Music or whatever else.
But none of these bookmarks are necessarily related to my music. They are only just bookmarks that refer to music that might exist within the libraries that these bodies provide.
And while all of these libraries are certainly quite vast, there's a fuckton of (published!) music that these commercial libraries do not provide.
This is the part that tends to have the most mistakes, if used. It's generally better to provide minimal info manually if the CD wasn't identified by its ID.
Depends on your musical tastes. A good 25% of the music in my library is not available in any form other than used CDs.
What kind of music?
Not sure about OP but I have all manner of blues and jazz recordings unavailable via streaming. There are also lots of obscure Japanese game and rock recordings that aren't in Apple or Spotify though to Spotify's credit, they have a lot of game content. Streaming is mostly in service of licenses and margins which as a shareholder, that makes sense to me.
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A wide range, actually. It's more about the time period and artists than musical style. If it's earlier than the 90s and/or from an artist who wasn't big on the charts, it gets more likely that they're not available except on used CD.
In that sense, the depth and variety of good music that is available has been shrinking for a long while now. The advent of streaming seems to have made it worse.
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I can curate my own library of bookmarks within [some other body's music library] without CDs; of course I can.
I can do that with iTunes or Spotify or Tidal or Amazon Music or whatever else.
But none of these bookmarks are necessarily related to my music. They are only just bookmarks that refer to music that might exist within the libraries that these bodies provide.
And while all of these libraries are certainly quite vast, there's a fuckton of (published!) music that these commercial libraries do not provide.
MusicBrainz has (or at least had) an acoustic fingerprint system for processing audio files too.
This is the part that tends to have the most mistakes, if used. It's generally better to provide minimal info manually if the CD wasn't identified by its ID.
Indeed! About half of my new music acquisition is on CD, the other half is Bandcamp/Qobuz/7Digital.