Different streaming services

• Spotify
• Soundcloud
• Deezer

Purchasing songs digitally using online marketplaces such as Youtube Music, Apple (Itunes), Amazon

https://www.lifewire.com/best-online-music-sites-for-downloading-songs-2438415

• Interesting to point out storage/issues with transitions, such as Google Play Music to Youtube Music impact

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Kumar, N., & Parikh, T. S. (2013). Mobiles, Music, and Materiality. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2863–2872. https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2481396

Due to increasing affordability of multimedia-enabled phones and voice/data plans and wider penetration of mobile coverage, the mobile phone has quickly become the most prevalent digital music device in the infrastructure-challenged resource-constrained communities we study [13].

With the digital representation of mobile media, however, the giver does not lose while the taker still gains. As long as a single party is aware of the mechanism of conducting a transfer, songs can be transferred seamlessly and without a financial cost. The material nature of the music file makes its presence felt when the size of the file is large enough to take more than a few seconds to transfer, but with songs/song videos, this is almost never the case.

New soundtracks are released at a pace that makes it hard for listeners to keep track of the singers or the album. This was reflected also in the obscure filenames that we found, while conducting a survey of mobile phone data to see what kind of mobile media was being consumed, e.g. “j.mp3”, “djmazaa.mp3”, etc. “With so many new songs available every week, “ Maheshji said, “only a few songs become popular...others flow away like rainwater.”

According to him, they only listened to the music (going from “next song to next song to next”) and did not care to identify the singer or album. Music, according to Rajan, is a “thing to use and forget, not a work of art anymore.” This lessened appreciation for music in the mobile age came across to us as one of the notable consequences of its material form.

...technologies have influenced practices of music consumption

Our respondents had a strong association between piracy and “poor quality” (whereas pirated digital media is commonly of high-quality as well). This association may have stemmed from the fact that “cheaper” is typically associated with “poor quality” and pirated music is cheaper.

Original versions were always more expensive, but they often also occupy more storage space

For instance, digital reproduction enables the deliberate loss of information (by downsampling) in ways that analog media did not, and this affordance allows our study participants to support their social and aesthetic preferences as they pick quantity over quality, a tradeoff that was previously inaccessible to them.