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 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.
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 do not stream. I have over 6K in my MP3 collection. I’ve never used a music streaming service.
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
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 just have a personal collection on my server and stream it with wireguard and symfonium
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 have a big-ass folder of mp3s that gets synchronised around via Syncthing. My mp3s mostly come from CDs I’ve bought and ripped.
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.
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.
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.
Tidal hasn’t been raising prices yet
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 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.
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
i pay for tidal, but use streamrip, lidarr and navidrome as my own music media server stack, and stream from there
I used to move around a huge library of mp3s. I just can’t be bothered anymore and spotify does a reasonable job for a reasonable price.
If only could easily access most movies and TV with one subscription. But anyway this was about music.
Price has gone up 30% in 10 years or whatever since I started. But then so has every fucking thing else.
Fwiw, a self hosted wireguard gets you easy access to that large library wherever you are 😉
I mostly listen to music when I’m driving and 4G connection is spotty as soon as you’re outside of town, so I’m still copying the files around. If spotify pisses me off I’ll probably make a media player that syncs mp3s over a vpn. If there is not one already.
Cheaper than buying for me, I on avarage would spend up to 6-7 times more on physical a month.
I listen to my personal collection most of the time. I use streaming to keep track of new artists, but I download things I like rather than keep streaming them.
I steam it because ironing melts the vinyl.
ahem
It’s an Albany expression.
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?
I never paid for Spotify, just used the free tier, eventually got fed up with the ads, learned about spotDL and yt-dlp, so now I just listen to mp3s from my phone
I stream, but I don’t pay.
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.
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
I’ve never paid for a streaming service. All my music is on my local device.
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.
HeerlijkeDrop@thebrainbin.org 5 months ago
In Poland streaming costs next to nothing, at least on Tidal. I'm regularly using radios and generated playlists containing music I don't have in my collection, so it's definitely cheaper than buying every album
alternategait@lemmy.world 5 months ago
HeerlijkeDrop@thebrainbin.org 5 months ago
I plan to self-host a music server with music ripped from CDs, torrented and bought from Bandcamp and go back to listening to radio. We have plenty of good radio stations here.