What’s the deal? Are people just going to continue to pay a never-ending rising cost of streaming? Surely this model can’t keep up, and I highly doubt people are listening to essentially the diverse catalog of music for that price. I’m willing to bet most people listen to the equivalent of a couple CDs in a month.
Are you guys just gonna keep paying for YouTube music as the price tops to $30 a month? Seems like every week these clowns are raising their prices.
I stream my music files from my personal server. I also use an mp3 player when I know I’ll be offline for an extended period.
I have a Spotify account, but I rip them from there. Up to 400k songs now. I use PlexAmp to stream to my devices.
I wish I knew how to do this!
I “acquire” my music as flac files, and usually listen to them on my iPod.
Well of course not. I don’t have physical discs or a steamer so steaming them is a bit difficult
Jokes aside, I have literally never used music streaming… First of all I don’t listen to that much music. Even when I did, I tried Soundcloud for a bit but then quickly switched over to Bandcamp. I’m not that big on having to listen to the latest music and I don’t like mainstream stuff, so YouTube is sufficient for discovery for now
I’m not very big on audio quality so I mostly just do yt-dlp these days on songs that I listen a lot… I could go back to Bandcamp (or pirate and leave personal donations) if I ever become an audiophile, but realistically a lot of musicians I listen to are financially stable if not wealthier than me (most of them probably have stable contracts from large gaming companies) so I don’t see a lot of point…
Yep I’m not streaming - waste of mobile data
No, I am frying my music. It gives the sound a crispier edge.
What seasonings?
Well, cooking your music leads to some nice results, too.
pirate .flac files
I buy CDs a lot. I love CDs. I love ripping them.
I pay for Spotify, price hasn’t raised in years. I pay for a family plan so mother people from my family (that live in different countries) can use it too.
I work on my computer, so I’m usually listening to music all day long, I have multiple playlists I alter depending on my mood, plus several albums as well. So, yeah, I think it’s worth it for me. That being said if they removed the family sharing or increased their price drastically I would definitely consider alternatives.
My problem is that I want to be able to get suggestions for music that I might like based on what I listen to. If I just downloaded music I like I’ll just end up listening to that and nothing else.
PlexAmp has a decent analyzer and DJ to mix it up and play similar themed songs. I download a shitloadz then have PlexAmp mix it, just pick a song like on Spotify and it will build out a playlist. Found some decent stuff that way.
Yeah no. Vinyl for the win. They steam well too. Makes nice bowls for keys :)
I have mp3s and an 800 KB binary that can play them. That’s it.
People massively overcomplicate this.
Yeah it keeps the wrinkles out, but I’m in a damp climate. I don’t want mildew.
If by streaming, you mean using a client-server architecture to get a sound signal to the aux port, then yes, I use mpv with pipewire.
Oh and I buy music from GoG and Steam.
I stream but from my own server.
I’ve got a collection curated over the last 15 years by my partner with over 40k tracks. I can shuffle and it will play for over 3 months without a repeat.
