I now have just about everything available to me via Spotify for a very reasonable price. If we cast our minds back to the 80s, if someone asked you how much you would be prepared to pay for instant access to every piece of music ever recorded I’m sure most of us would have happily stumped up at least 10 quid a month forty years ago. It’s great.
And yet…there are things I used to do that I don’t do now and I miss it. As I’m driving or walking the dog I can’t fast forward within tracks of music to get to the bits I particularly like within a song. For example I like the last 90 seconds or so of U2’s Unforgettable Fire and I don’t need to hear the whole thing. In the days of cassettes and CDs I could FFWD to those bits.
Is it a settings thing? You can go forwards and back 15 seconds on podcasts – that would be fine.
You can move the progress slider bar thingy.
Ah OK. It might be that it doesn’t work on Apple Car Play.
I’m not an Apple user but have you tried to get Siri to jump to a point in the track? For the best bit of a U2 track, try “Hey Siri, skip to next”.
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You need to have the ‘Now Playing’ app on the screen, and you can move the progress bar in that. I believe you can also hold down the next track button on your steering wheel to achieve that (press once to go to next track).
You can say ‘go back one minute’ (etc) with Siri.
It’s not great, it’s lousy, as well you know… it makes people lazy, and your experience with the general public on pop music?
Mine is they know the square-root of jack-shit… at its most potent at either end of the scale – up to aged 40 and post 65.
Bizarrely, the initial dodgers know the most, maybe ‘cos they missed the best bit… and they know it! Strange business. Have you ever heard the expression – ”thrill of the chase”?
I’m happy to broaden the thread’s subject because I think I asked a pretty dumb question!
I know what you mean by the thrill of the chase but I can’t help thinking that once I invested, a part of me made a big effort to like it so I didn’t feel foolish. Over many years, my internal voice was telling me that I had reliably impeccable taste but now I’m older I’m not so sure. I was very loyal and bought everything a favoured artist did, anticipating another masterpiece.
Having said all that, I maintain that the albums I still return to ARE in fact great records. @deramdaze – you would absolutely hate them.
We are all like the music journalists now in terms of easy access to music. I wonder if or how my record collection would have changed if, in the 70s/80s I had been able to easily hear them first before buying.
On Carplay, if I hold down the forward or back button on the steering wheel, I recall it scrolling forward. It might work on the screen as well but I don’t recall trying. I’m pretty certain it doesn’t work dragging the bar on my car (and it doesn’t sound especially safe).
As an aside, has anyone bought a wireless Carplay adaptor? I got one for about a tenner and its pretty good.