Submitted 14 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.
What? I pay $23 for YouTube Premium Family Plan, which includes ad free video and YouTube Music for 4 people. Still pretty reasonable IMO, never going back to Spotify that's for sure, I have thought about trying Qobuz for higher quality, but the price increase across my family plus the fact that I never ever want to war h ads on YouTube makes it a difficult value prop, I'd probably rather buy one album a month from BandCamp.
Same here. Split between 5 people it’s very reasonable. This is the one thing I’m actually afraid to touch when it comes to degoogling
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 🤣
Um, I have done so successfully?
I have all 140gb of music I have ever loved enough to keep a copy, I have it on my microSD card on my phone (and backed up)
Samesies! If I find new music I like, I get it on CD whenever possible and rip that.
Tidal hasn’t been raising prices yet
I also use Tidal, their recommendations aren’t as good as spotify, but they also don’t pay Joe Rogan. Also I did a sound quality comparison between the two and most of Tidal’s audio were better. Though every once in a while I run into a weird quality song.
For all you spotify peeps that don’t want to feed the fascist machine, checkout Tidal or Qobuz. You can use the service called tunemymusic to transfer your playlists. One month was like $5.
Interesting. I like a pretty niche style of music and I feel like when they make suggestions after the end of playlists were regularly good enough to get added to the seeding playlists.
I feel like Spotify’s recommendations have seriously gone downhill in the last two or three years. Most of the new music I actually like I’ve found in music comms on Lemmy
YouTube Music has only been raising prices as much as Tidal (and everything except Spotify and Deezer), too; I'm not sure what OP is on about the price.
I pay for a tidal family account and im pretty sure im the only one actually downloading music, ill probably stop paying again once it hits $20/mo for the family plan but it was mainly a means to an end to get my other family members off Spotify.
Last i checked i was around 70k songs, my collection is also all shared on funkwhale and soulseek.
I buy my music from iTunes, I also buy my audiobooks from Apple Books.
I do not rent my music library.
If I go into deep depression I don’t want to have to worry about having to keep paying to access my music, same with my audiobooks.
I’m looking to move away from spotify by the end of the year. I’m not totally sure what I’m gonna do. Maybe by a radio and put it on my desk :p
I did a bit of research on that, and I’d personally use something else like Wavlake for streaming (my producer, Neigsendoig, is on there with his music and podcast). As for non-streaming things, we’ve both been thinking of getting something like an iPod 5th Generation and slapping Rockbox on it.
don’t laugh but I am one of the 5 people on earth who bought a zune and I’d totally like to have one again sometimes, but I could also put the music on my phone soooo i donno if it’s worth it!
If my phone had 2TB of storage, I might play it locally.
But I also don’t need to pay a service. I use my own media server at home to connect to.
Music doesn’t take that much storage? I download songs I listen to on Invidious / yt-dlp and a 3 minute song ranges from about 2 to 5 megabytes.
It does when you have fucktons of songs. My music collection on the media box is almost 2TB.
I typically buy music , most often from Bandcamp. I figure $10/mo gets me one or two albums I can keep forever. I tend to be more depth-first with music, where I get really into a band for a little while then move on, so this works for me.
No, I have to own my music if I’m going to enjoy it; the thought of a company being able to take away music that I love takes away the enjoyment. I need at least the files and the backups under my control. It’s not even about price, I would still buy CDs and rip them if that was the only way.
I steam it because its healthier.
I ended up writing a super janky python script to play my music from my terminal. All of it is stored locally, including lyrics.
Yeah i used to pay for Spotify, then they gave a huge contract to what’s his nuts, now I just have mp3s on my phone
For the most part, majority of my music is locally stored across my phone, desktop, and laptop. I’ve got a small growing collection of CDs as well.
For a bunch of stuff I listen to ( mainly vocaloid in this case ), I cannot get an official CD, so best I can do is download them off yt.
I used to use Spotify, but then I learned that YouTube premium cost the same amount, and came with access to YouTube music, so I switched. Got tired of playing YouTube ad blocking whack-a-mole.
If Google starts enshittifying Premium too much, I’ll go back to sailing the high seas for stuff I’m not going to/can’t get on vinyl.
Most times I listen to records.
For digital music, I have a local collection. I copy chunks of it to my phone periodically for remote listening.
Making people pay over and over again for the same product is the greatest trick businesses ever pulled.
I only buy music on physical media. It’s the only way I can be sure that I really own it.
I have never paid to stream music. I grew up with dial-up and terrible cell reception making torrenting a chore (shout-out leaving Limewire up overnight for one song) and streaming a total non-starter. In high school I checked out stacks and stacks of CDs from the library to rip onto my computer.
With the help of better internet I was able to access torrenting and luckily my special interest in the metal genre kept me off the ISP radar though I use a VPN nowadays. You may be able to find a tracker specialized in a specific music taste - depending on your attitude towards torrenting. I do my best to recompense the bands via merch (especially vinyl) and concert ticket sales.
Welcome sailor!
I still use soulseek lol
I use Qobuz, as I understand it pays the most to the artists. It’s $11/month CAD, which is still doable for me. Not sure if it’s “worth it” in the long term scope of things, but monthly I listen to music from a hundred or so albums (not every track from every album, so it’s hard to estimate what it would otherwise cost to buy).
I wouldn’t pay that much to Spotify or Google, though. Fuck them.
I only listen to music locally, i don’t even use self hosted services. Musicolet is the perfect musicplayer. My collection is both purchased bandcamp music and music downloaded using spot-dl. As hip hop being the dominent genre i listen to it easy to discover new artists just by finding features
I have a big-ass folder of mp3s that gets synchronised around via Syncthing. My mp3s mostly come from CDs I’ve bought and ripped.
Sitting at ~200 GB music tracks , OuterTune for free YT music for discovery . Don’t (ever plan to )?own physical media . Never (paid for|used other) streaming services
OuterTune is nice, thanks for the tip. I thought for a second it was going to have my number one desired feature for a YouTube front end: playlist folders, but alas it's all just a list once again.
Is the local view missing sort by artist and album or am I missing something?
Don’t see option to sort by artist AND album , just artist OR album
i pay for tidal, but use streamrip, lidarr and navidrome as my own music media server stack, and stream from there
I mostly listen to MiniDiscs.
i keep my favourite music on my phone and use newpipe for everything else, absolutely fucking baffles me that most people keep paying for streaming services
I have my favourite bands and classics local (about 18k files), but regulary stream to get to know new bands to listen to. Combining the two makes my library grow (͡⎚◡͡⎚)
I don’t stream my music, and only did for a little bit when it was newer and fairly novel. I strongly agree with you, most people don’t listen to diverse enough music that streaming makes sense other than pure convenience. That convenience is clearly all it takes for the majority of people.
DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Fuck streaming. All I need is my local library and an .mp3 player with tactile controls.
I do not understand how people are OK with being reliant on some other service to listen to their music, and how they’re OK with having to deal with a touchscreen if they want to skip tracks or otherwise navigate the library. Not to mention that they don’t even have full control over their playlists, or that songs can disappear…
Conversely, with a dedicated player and knowledge of your own library, you can skip between albums with your eyes closed, and you never have to worry about losing a playlist or song.