Submitted 5 months 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 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.
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.
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’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.
Buy it on Bandcamp, then use Apple’s “iTunes music match” service, $25 a year if I remember right, which allows you to stream anything that you own and have added to iTunes, on any Apple device that has the same iCloud account id as iTunes.
Means that the artists get everything (Bandcamp Friday rules!) except the $25 a year.
I like CDs :)
I use spotify because it’s the only one I know of that
If deezer could geht their act together I’d switch to that, but they limit playlists to 2000 tracks. Buying every single song would be way more expensive than streaming, so I just can’t afford to do anything else.
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 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
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.
I stream, dirt cheap, as part of a Spotify family plan. €4/month, so I don’t feel like figuring something else out
I used spotify for a few months about 10 years ago until they doubled their price and removed songs that I had saved in playlists. Since then I haven’t bothered with streaming.
I get my music from KCRW.
I do donate, but it’s not necessary if you can’t afford to.
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 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.
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.
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
I ended up retrofitting a steamer into an old jukebox so that I can steam my entire library at once. Best way I’ve found to keep my music collection fresh.
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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 use an air fryer
No actually I’ve used physical media since the 90s and haven’t had a reason to change
I like to air fry mine, gives it a nice crunchy sound 👌🏻
I mostly listen to MiniDiscs.
yes, me
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
I have all my music on a nas with plex so I can stream it from there. Home assistant and Music assistant allow me to play it to any room in the house. Mobile data is expensive in NZ though so I have a terabyte of sd storage in my phone and in the car head unit with music from band camp, ripped cds, ripped vinyl, dj sets from YouTube and mix cloud.