Submitted 2 weeks ago by AshCircuit@lemmy.zip to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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 am streaming my music, but from my own server at home.
What’s your preferred client? I switched from plexamp to fintunes, but I really hate the app and the lack of functionality.
Jellyfin + Symfonium is such a great experience
Jellyfin has pretty good Linux PC clients too. Even the main Jellyfin client works well for music.
My music taste is pretty narrow and my music library is small (<800 songs). I wouldn’t ever pay for streaming.
I’ve been using mpd (Music Player Daemon), originally with icecast bc it didn’t have built-in http streaming, but it has for a long time now, 10+ years.
Plexamp. It does everything I want flawlessly, so I really have no desire to switch.
No, I am frying my music. It gives the sound a crispier edge.
You call them steamed jams despite the fact they are obviously grilled
Well, cooking your music leads to some nice results, too.
What seasonings?
SAULT, and Pepa
Red hot chilli peppers?
I’ve never paid for a streaming service. All my music is on my local device.
You call it steamed music, despite the fact that it is obviously grilled.
I prefer it poached or grilled, but I’ll accept steamed
Deep fried for me. Yes my cholesterol doesn’t like it, but eh…
I prefer mine broiled
Never paid for streaming. Usually buy music and download the files to play on my computer or stream them from the computer to my phone or wherever. Mainly have been buying lossless .flac music files from Bandcamp.
Bandcamp is the way if you’re into any smaller genre of music.
I still occasionally pick up CD’s, as I do for blurays… I’ll check out charity shops if I pass them, go to car boots… it’s why I keep an old BDrom in my server, so I can rip the files from them, convert and have them available to stream around the house.
I don’t, I just play the thousands of mp3s I’ve collected over the years.
I like to air fry mine, gives it a nice crunchy sound 👌🏻
Steaming seems a bit too extreme… it might damage or peel off the labels, or even damage the discs themselves, depending on the temperature (and I don’t want to see what it’d do to tape!).
Personally I’ve always found a microfiber cloth to be sufficient.
Hah! I didn’t even notice the missing r, even after seeing the more recent saute joke from someone else. N1
I do not stream. I have over 6K in my MP3 collection. I’ve never used a music streaming service.
Cheaper than buying for me, I on avarage would spend up to 6-7 times more on physical a month.
I don't stream music. Mostly listen to rips of all the CDs I collected over the decades plus stuff I saved over the years in the spirit of recording music off the radio, which is perfectly legal.
It means I don't really have much new music, but never was super excited about music when it is new. The benefit of being behind the curve is the crap gets filtered out!
Just like broccoli.
Honestly, steaming seems like a waste of time. What if I damage my music? The smell would be awful. Also it gets too noodley for my taste.
It’s digital nowadays, just throw it in some rice
Mmm, steamed hams!
Streaming music never appealed to me. 1TB sd card in my phone with my library synced to it.
Big benefit to me is discovering new artists and songs. Without that, I’d be missing a Lot of amazing stuff.
I wish companies would go back to putting SD card slots in all the phones again
Same! Although still on my 512GB SD card but I’ll have to upgrade to 1TB soon at this rate lol
I sync my music to my phone from my home server.
Do you do an automatic sync or manual drag and drop?
I use syncthing for my pictures from my phone to my server and I keep saying I will do the opposite for my music but I have not gotten it organized/tagged well enough yet and I keep putting it off.
I have Plex so it automatically copies selected playlists and such to my phone. Going to be switching to Jellyfin soon though but I’m guessing it has a similar feature.
I use SyncThing as well to keep certain files and such synced from my server, phone, and tablet. I also sync pictures and video to my server from my phone and tablet.
We are stuck in the same spot. Musicbrainz Picard might help? I checked it out but metal genre tags range from simple to way too specific to poorly categorized. Might help you get the tagging done at least.
Daaaaaaammmmnnnn. That’s a lot of vinyl. Lovely 😍
Bowls for keys…at your vinyl listening swingers parties?
Didn’t get that reference. Had to look it up, and, ohh dear me, NO!! 😂 😂
In order of preference:
Streaming services are evil and i wish for them to fail. …but more seriously – I get why streaming services exist. Although I will almost certainly will never use one in my life, in principle it’s fine, I get the point. When I’m online I’m actually OK to stream from an indie radio (eg. soma.fm) or from a RSS based podcast player (eg. Antenna).
The problem i have is that, AFAIK, the business models are almost always abusive and hostile to both user and the artist. Some kind of federated system could work better, but I’m not sure it’s doable. As it is, I’m afraid this middle man model just won’t ever work properly without heavy regulation – which is kind of a problem in the globalized world.
This is basically my strategy too. Though, I tend to buy from Bandcamp first and foremost. I like that most of the time if I buy physical media (either vinyl or CD) on Bandcamp it comes with a digital download.
I was disappointed that Bandcamp was bought by a company a few years back, but nothing has changed… Yet.
This person has hit the nail on the head. Own the music.
Too bad we can’t really do that with movies & series. Cinema aside, I basically start at step 4.
I stream, but I don’t pay.
Yet another Bandcamp shopper here. I stream from their site to preview albums but then buy my favorites later. DRM-free FLAC files are the best.
And the fact that you can roll up, by some music, and leave without making any kind of account or anything is just the cherry on top.
You call them “steamed jams” despite the fact you are obviously not billed?
I have never used any streaming.
I use bandcamp and buy cheesy jazz records.
I’m old enough to remember buying physical media. I still do that from time to time. For daily use I have a large library of digital copies of music I bought at various stages of my life. Listening to them costs me nothing and I can listen to them as often as I like for the rest of my life. Technology permitting, even my children may continue listening to what I bought last century. Ownership is a great thing.
Saying “old enough to remember buying physical media” makes me feel like one of the ancients.
A while ago I got tired of tracks going missing from my playlists because of stuff being removed from Spotify so I started buying everything on Bandcamp and then playing it from my jellyfin using finamp.
Bandcamp
I don’t get it either. I have a couple of friends who pay for music streaming just to listen for the SAME music over and over. They don’t even make use of those so called recommendation algorithms or so. I tried to guide them into putting the music they like into their phones for offline listening, but they ignored me. I guess some people just have some sort of love for corporations.
pirate .flac files
how do you get flacs? I can only ever find mp3s
Soulseek.
Bandcamp, Qobuz, Torrents, and ripping CD’s.
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I steam it because ironing melts the vinyl.
diegantobass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s also the only cooking method that preserves nutrients in the groovy basslines
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Do you only use Monster steamers? Gold plated to transfer the steam without losing the lower frequencies?
foggy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ahem
It’s an Albany expression.