why are people not moving past the album format? people shouldn't

>>73028701
Dum Dum: The Post

It's convenient and what most people are used to.

Because the single/ep/lp format is perfect for listening to music in manageable quantities and keeping digital and physical libraries and databases organized

If it aint broke don't fix it.

>>73028701
because not everyone's not as autistic as you.

It's shifted to 50-70 minutes in a lot of cases
It's frustrating that this should be explained

>>73028701
It's a tradition and nobody has done anything better. Don't be an autistic hipster.

Vinyl just happened to be around the level of what is tasteful in regard to pop music. Artists used to have to focus their ideas into ten or twelve songs instead of now when you end up with something like Stadium Arcadium, where artists can just let the diarrhea flow with no restraint. Or take a look at Prince, who had something like 14 good or great albums in 14 years followed by 30 mediocre ones in the next 20.

You're onto something OP, ignore the people who are disagreeing with you. The way people consume music is changing. The average person doesn't sit down and listen to an entire album at once anymore, it's an outdated medium for an obsolete practice. Whoever figures out how to innovate delivering music as a product in a way that is convenient, effective, and artistic is going to dominate the next iteration of music consumption.

In terms of length, if you only make short releases all the time, it's not as much of an event and is not as satisfying for fans. I think we could shift this way eventually, if people really wanted it. Longer releases are harder on both musicians and ADHD-ridden audiences (although that hasn't stopped Gucci from dropping like 1000 mixtapes, so maybe I'm wrong there as well, we'll see). And as far as album art goes, yeah it's a tradition, although there are certainly more net-only releases without covers these days than ever before.

It's certainly dated and unnecessary. Sometimes it works but most acts aren't good enough to maintain quality for 40 minutes.

As streaming becomes more and more the standard it'll die away in many cases.

>>73028768
I honestly wish it shifted back to cut down filler, but to each their own.

Because albums tend to have some sort of focus. It isn't arbitrary. Do you really want 40 more minutes of Rubber Soul, with whatever shit the Beatles could toss in? Use your brain dude.