Submitted 16 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.
I mostly listen to MiniDiscs.
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 pay for tidal so I have something in the car and while I'm working, but most of my music listening is vinyl.
I rip my music off Spotify via a 3rd party site or download torrents then copy to USBs for the car. I have never streamed music.
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
My tidal is $13, but I also listen locally on my mp3 player.
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.
My music taste is pretty narrow and my music library is small (<800 songs). Buy my music on Band camp, then stream from Jellyfin. I wouldn’t ever pay for streaming. If I want to go through new music then I use a more targeted online radio (Jango is free and good).
It surprises me that people want to stream such a large amount. Do people just listen to random tunes? Happy to listen to anything?
There is a lot of great music that I've never heard. (there is even more bad "music") Once in a while I want to hear something different, and streaming does that for me. Not well, but I have a hard time finding something better.
I mostly use qobuz when out and about and vinyl at home. Music streaming is the one streaming media I don’t find objectionable as a consumer. All the services have pretty much the same catalog so pick based on features. I still buy my favorite albums though so the artist actually gets money.
I just have a personal collection on my server and stream it with wireguard and symfonium
I don’t listen to music. There’s literally no music that I enjoy enough to choose to listen to it. I’m pretty sure there’s something broken in my brain.
What a fascinating quirk. Do you ever get ear worms? Are you just generally indifferent or do you dislike music?
Musical anhedonia I think? I’m usually indifferent, I dislike some music. Ear worms are very rare. I generally prefer spoken word when I want to listen to things: stand-up comedy, podcasts, audio books etc.
It’s usually…fine if I hear music, I just don’t go out of my way to find it or anything.
I have a streaming service, but most of my music is physical. I have around 800 CDs and a comparable number of records. I also listen to the radio, seeing as how we have an actually great station
I stream, dirt cheap, as part of a Spotify family plan. €4/month, so I don’t feel like figuring something else out
I get my music from KCRW.
I do donate, but it’s not necessary if you can’t afford to.
I use Spotify because someone in the family got a family plan. I probably have about 80 different songs I listen to over and over in a month, with randomly listening into other playlists. I keep my playlists “offline” on Spotify, so not really streaming much either. Probably about 700-1000 songs I keep available offline.
Idk, my wife pays for it so I use it. Easier to use the family subscription then continue sailing the seas. If the price gets too much I’ll take the helm back as captain of entertainment.
I use an air fryer
No actually I’ve used physical media since the 90s and haven’t had a reason to change
I pay for Tidal (afaik the best music streaming service) and keep a tidy vinyl collection. Vinyl because it’s the coziest way to listen to music and my girlfriend likes reading the lyrics from the inserts. CD unfortunately had to go with the last move.
My dad pays for the family Spotify subscription. lol
I’m listening to YouTube music with addblock. Which I am surprised isn’t a more common setup because it’s zero effort.
And a lot of burned CD of YouTube to MP3 because my car still has its 2000s radio player which doesn’t have USB.
Yes, I prefer to stir fry mine.
I roast mine
Very infrequently stream. I buy vinyl and bandcamp.
I don’t stream very often, when I do I use Apple Music because I have the discounted package subscription. Even then, I typically only stream specific punk playlists. Otherwise, I listen to the MP3s I ripped from my CDs or downloaded 20 years ago.
I also usually listen to the radio in the car. A local station plays a lot of the stuff I like (Green Day, Social Distortion, Ramones etc) and mixes in new stuff. Plus, I live so close to the southern US border, sometimes they throw in some local Mexican rock band.
It’s pretty cheap in the third world👍
Where are you seeing prices trending towards $30?
I’ll pay for as long as it’s worth it, and Spotify is worth every cent even though I have hundreds of gigs of music available on my plex server.
I use spotify and i was very reluctant to start. Eventually i caved because i wanted an algorithm to help me find new music and for the most part spotify does a decent job at that. As things get more expensive it will be one of the first things I’ll cut out.
Oberyn@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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
Coopr8@kbin.earth 11 hours ago
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?
Oberyn@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Don’t see option to sort by artist AND album , just artist OR album