{"id":5267,"date":"2019-02-20T12:37:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T11:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=5267"},"modified":"2019-02-20T10:44:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T09:44:25","slug":"how-streaming-music-could-be-harming-the-planet-slashdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2019\/02\/20\/how-streaming-music-could-be-harming-the-planet-slashdot\/","title":{"rendered":"How Streaming Music Could Be Harming the Planet &#8211; Slashdot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/19\/02\/19\/2218227\/how-streaming-music-could-be-harming-the-planet\">How Streaming Music Could Be Harming the Planet &#8211; Slashdot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: <i>Current digital technology gives us flawless music quality without physical deterioration. Music is easy to copy and upload, and can be streamed online without downloading. Since our digital music is less tangible than vinyl or CDs, surely it must be more environmentally friendly? Even though new formats are material-free, that doesn&#8217;t mean they don&#8217;t have an environmental impact. The electronic files we download are stored on active, cooled servers. The information is then retrieved and transmitted across the network to a router, which is transferred by wi-fi to our electronic devices. This happens every time we stream a track, which costs energy. 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20190207-why-streaming-music-may-be-bad-for-climate-change\">it&#8217;s estimated to use 107 kilowatt hours of electricity a year<\/a>, costing about $20 to run. A CD player uses 34.7 kilowatt hours a year and costs about $7 to run.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><br \/>\n<\/i><i>So, which is the greener option? It depends on many things, including how many times you listen to your music. If you only listen to a track a couple of times, then streaming is the best option. If you listen repeatedly, a physical copy is best &#8212; streaming an album over the internet more than 27 times will likely use more energy than it takes to produce and manufacture a CD. If you want to reduce your impact on the environment, then vintage vinyl could be a great physical option. For online music, local storage on phones, computers or local network drives keeps the data closer to the user and will reduce the need for streaming over distance from remote severs across a power-hungry network.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Source: How Streaming Music Could Be Harming the Planet &#8211; Slashdot<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2019\/02\/20\/how-streaming-music-could-be-harming-the-planet-slashdot\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-ethics","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-1mX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1208,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/03\/30\/vocore-mini-linux-computer-slashdot-deals\/","url_meta":{"origin":5267,"position":0},"title":"VoCore: Mini Linux Computer | Slashdot Deals","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2016-03-30","format":"status","excerpt":"VoCore: Mini Linux Computer | Slashdot Deals VoCore: Mini Linux Computer, Take on Endless Electronic Projects with the Tiniest Linux Computer Yet! 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