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Streaming services are very useful and a good model in general. Unfortunately, the leading companies do not yet sufficiently understand how to distribute the monetary gains properly.
For some reason, people still think having a big number on your bank account is a good thing. Money should stream as well.
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.
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 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 usually don't keep any subscriptions. But after years of ytdlnis and musicolet, I got sick of the poor audio quality and just signed up for a free trial of Tidal. So far the difference in quality is night and day. If someone has a better way to get music than what I'm used to, please lmk
I've had tidal for the past few years and I'll never leave by choice. They even lowered their subscription price last year.
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 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 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've been putting music on my Jellyfin server and accessing remotely with tailscale...sooo technically streaming, but also hosting it. Win win?
I gave up Spotify when the online safety act came in. I store my music locally on my computer. Ideally, I'd like something like jellyfin but I don't really want to expose anything to the internet right now.
I acquired a lot of my music from bandcamp and ~~piracy~~ COMPLETELY LEGAL MEANS.
I use tailscale, maybe there's something I'm not aware of that's risky, but I assume it's much safer than port forwarding
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
yes, me
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 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 use Pandora, so far they haven't fucked me over with crazy price raises. Been using them for yeaaaaaers. They may not have everything, but what they have works for me
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 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 don't stream.
I pirate like many in this thread, but I can't be arsed to set up a home server for music, especially not one I can connect to outside its local network.
Phones today have more storage than I need, I can load that thing up with all the music I want. If I need extra, there's SD cards. If I need even more, I can swap out and re-copy from my PC later.
I stream music via my own server. I use navidrome. I use their Web UI for PC and then symfonium for mobile.
But yeah you're right, it's cheaper for me to buy a few CDs every now and again than pay a subscription
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 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 steam it because its healthier.
I use streaming to discover new music to pirate into my mp3/flac collection.
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.
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)
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 up to 70k songs, my collection is also all shared on funkwhale and soulseek.
I never did. I never liked streamimg music that demamds constant internet connection, ads in between, and unability to skip forward unless you're subscribed.
i am streaming music... from a friend's homelab :3
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 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.