Submitted 12 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.
Cheaper than buying for me, I on avarage would spend up to 6-7 times more on physical a month.
I do not stream. I have over 6K in my MP3 collection. I’ve never used a music streaming service.
Bandcamp
I have never used any streaming.
I stream, but I don’t pay.
yes, me
yeah im gonna keep paying for it. idk what i would do without it because my library on spotify is so incredibly vast that there is no way i can get all of it downloaded onto my phone. just no way. unless theres like a 12 tb sd card
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 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.
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 my music deep fried.
You lose all the ear-vitamins that way.
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?
Look I know Bandcamp got a bad rap for being bought and sold a few times but they still have Bandcamp Fridays and that coupled with my own streaming server at home seems like the ticket to me.
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 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 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’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!
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.
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.
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
I was using tidal for about a year but I just got really frustrated when my account got lost/interrupted when I updated my phone. I may go back for music discovery and playlists. However right now (and I plan for at least a few more months) I’m going to spend the money on band camp.
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 don’t understand why you would even stream anything at all. You don’t even need a separate device nowadays to carry around a very large library of music (mps3 or even flacs).
I listen to music on multiple devices and don’t want to deal with syncing files and playlists between them.
Also my library is currently 900GB, which would take up almost all the storage on my laptop and I’d have to buy a 1TB SD card to be able to fit it on my phone.
Much easier to just stream it.
Yeah, the benefit to streaming is that you can have much larger libraries. I have +5000 songs on my most commonly played lists, and that’s not even my full library. My devices are already full enough with things like game files (emulators), video files (locally downloaded from my Plex/Jellyfin server so I don’t have to stream video on the shitty work WiFi), and videos/photos from daily life. If I can store my music elsewhere, of course I’m going to do so. I’ll keep one or two common playlists automatically downloaded, but the rest gets streamed.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 6 hours ago
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.