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How streaming music could be harming the planet
Once vinyl or a CD is purchased, it can be played over and over again, the only carbon cost coming from running the record player. However, if we listen to our streamed music using a hi-fi sound system it's estimated to use 107 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, costing about £15.00 to run. A CD player uses 34.7 kilowatt hours a year and costs £5 to run.
Solution: Use a smartphone or laptop with headphones unless you are playing music for guests. Download the songs you play repeatedly.
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Environmental Impact of Music Streaming?
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Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 18 2019, @07:49PM
Story (or at least the summary) is an exercise in oversimplification.
What's the lifetime energy impact of a CD that's manufactured, shipped, sold at retail, eventually landfilled? Remember, this is for all CDs manufactured, not just those that are listened to. Ditto for manufacture, use and disposal of CD players, including the ones that never or rarely get used. That (including the purchaser's trips to the CD shop both to buy and to browse, and the shipping costs for online shoppers) is the energy footprint that needs to be compared to the energy required to stream a song through the network over and over.
Pirates are of course greener since they stream once on the global network, then play locally.
After the signal is converted to analog from whatever source, how that's played via earbuds, bookshelf speakers, or stadium PA systems shouldn't enter into a comparison of streaming vs recorded music.
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