Submitted 10 hours 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.
All my music lives in a folder called music that gets synced to all my devices. Don’t ask me how I sync the folder across all my devices though
I stream from my own library hosted on my fileserver.
I use a random playlist that increases the delay for track repeat plays proportionally to their play count. Albums are added as I find artists or themes I find interesting, movie and game scores are great for adding incidental randomness.
I’ve never payed or had an account on any streaming ‘service’.
I don’t, I just play the thousands of mp3s I’ve collected over the years.
I use streaming to discover new music to pirate into my mp3/flac collection.
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
I usually don’t keep any subscriptions. But after years of ytdlnis and musicolet, I got sick of the poor audio quality and just signed up for a free trial of Tidal. So far the difference in quality is night and day. If someone has a better way to get music than what I’m used to, please lmk
I’ve had tidal for the past few years and I’ll never leave by choice. They even lowered their subscription price last year.
I steam it because ironing melts the vinyl.
It’s also the only cooking method that preserves nutrients in the groovy basslines
Do you only use Monster steamers? Gold plated to transfer the steam without losing the lower frequencies?
ahem
It’s an Albany expression.
just to let you know Lemmy is NOT the place to get unbiased results, esp on piracy.
if you really want an answer from the people who pay for a subscription go to a university and walk around with a microphone and iPhone, people will spill their guts out lol
i don’t stream, i buy and play locally; it helps that my apartment wifi is dogshit
if it’s on bandcamp, i buy it there. if it’s not on bandcamp, i have other means
Oddly, I’ve just returned to FM radio. I do have a large collection of songs stored locally, but I want to hear new recommendations (and not from an algorithm but from free public radio).
Same but with internet radio. Most big public universities have a radio station, and mirror it on an internet radio stream. I’ve just looked up various universities across the continent and found ones that actually have good human DJs.
I’ve been putting music on my Jellyfin server and accessing remotely with tailscale…sooo technically streaming, but also hosting it. Win win?
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 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.
i am streaming music… from a friend’s homelab :3
I gave up Spotify when the online safety act came in. I store my music locally on my computer. Ideally, I’d like something like jellyfin but I don’t really want to expose anything to the internet right now.
I acquired a lot of my music from bandcamp and piracy COMPLETELY LEGAL MEANS.
I use tailscale, maybe there’s something I’m not aware of that’s risky, but I assume it’s much safer than port forwarding
You call it steamed music, despite the fact that it is obviously grilled.
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.
I’ve never paid for a streaming service. All my music is on my local device.
I like to air fry mine, gives it a nice crunchy sound 👌🏻
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.
Don't assume I'm one of those people. I only threw down a dollar just to get three months of SiriusXM and I only listen to comedy on it. I have an IPod Touch with music and car manufacturer's suck dick on complicating the idea of plugging in IPod devices and letting them work as normal. No, we're suddenly required to have ApplePlay or Android Auto.
Good luck trying to cancel XM radio 🤣
I buy less physical media because it’s a physical space waste but I do like some vinyl of my absolute favourites.
I buy digital with no DRM like on Bandcamp and make redundant backups. Usually when you buy Vinyl you get the digital version along with it at no extra cost.
That’s thit really. Copy my MP3 and FLAC to phone to play in my car over AUX. At home it’s on my NAS and on Premiumize cloud storage as well which I also use as a debrid service.
I pirate as well, but I try not to for independent nobody (poor) artists. I don’t judge others it’s just my personal preference.
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.
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.
My Compact Discs (CDs) and my compact disc players both still work fine.
Occasional visits to thrift shops have expanded my collection at very affordable prices.
The variety of music I enjoy is unimpressive but steady.
But the load times are very nice, and the network resilience is unmatched.
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.
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!
Cheaper than buying for me, I on avarage would spend up to 6-7 times more on physical a month.
sefra1@lemmy.zip 3 minutes ago
Even tho i have a several TBs library I still stream, because I always went to find and listen to new things that aren’t in my library.
Generally if something is on my library, I’m already tired of it.
So I endup streaming from YouTube music free + unlock origin. If I want to listen to a whole album without having half of it’s songs replaced by a low fidelity music video version I open the album link with mpv or listen to the album from telegram bots like @deezload2bot or @linemusicbot