no i am the kind of person who can’t find his music, but when i do find them, i listen to them into the ground, i think my play list is like an hour and a half tops? music falls out of rotation as fast as i add to it. not really streaming capable

Ive always considered giving money to record companies immoral. When I was young I would download whole albums “for context.” Moving away from tormenting, I just download singles from youtube. I can also download playlists. They just live on my sd chip in my phone

I buy my music for download on Bandcamp, Steam and few other places. I listen to it with Jellyfin and Finamp on my mobile (it can store songs locally or stream them from my home NAS)

Stored on my PC, rsync to other devices.

I still have an mp3 collection. Mainly because I like a lot of obscure artists you can’t find in streaming services and I despise algorithm recommendations. I never liked fucking youtube because they always would put a lot of useless trash in the recommendations. So I shut down recommendation history, I stay away from their music services and I’m never giving them a single penny. I still buy CD’s whenever I can, hey at least a CD is proof I’m listening to a real musician and not some AI slop.

For the most part I’ve always hated music streaming services because they feel very insular. There is no sense of fandom and community by design. I knew shit was going to get bad when you tube shut down the comments on music tracks. These “services” are designed to wall in the user and keep them hooked to the fucking algorithm; That betrays the spirit of musical community I was used to. I feel tech companies ruined the joy of collecting music and I am glad piracy is coming back. All of these streaming services can fuck off.

Iv had a single subscription for like a decade. YouTube red or premium or what the fuck ever it’s called.

Cost me 7.99 I stream my music from YouTube.

The moment YouTube stops grandfathering me in is the moment I go right back to just pirating everything. They have threatened to raise the praise for grandfathered plans a few times and never went though with it. They have threatened to add ads, or change features and never went though with it.

8 dollars is entirely an acceptable price for functionally unlimited music and TV.

I use the service so I pay for the service. It’s convenient, functional and there are no ads.

Works on my PC, phone and while I’m in the car with no fiddling.

If I had to pick a service to use to today I would just go with Bandcamp or pirate the fuck out of everything.

Seriously what Gabe said decades ago was turn then and now. Piracy is a service problem. A affordable, fair and customer friendly service will be worth paying for. Companies just keep making shit worse then what the value prop is.

And frankly I would spend like 40 bucks a month on CDs, so 8 bucks is perfectly acceptable. And I don’t personally see any fucking reason to own a copy of my music. That just cost storage space.

I keep a simple txt file with a list of all the songs and albums I enjoy the most so if I need to I can easily just go get a copy of them when and if I need to. And not waste space on meaningless files that I have on demand access too.

My MP3s have moved from 1 device to another. I paid for the physical copies years ago (also some friends “shared” other songs), and I still only buy MP3s.

I have my NAS on a private VPN running on my own server. The NAS have my music (roughly 2/3 from physical media, 1/3 from various DRM-free source). I use it with a simple mobile app (CloudBeat) that can work in both online and offline mode where you can download what you want ahead of time by ticking a checkbox.

It doesn’t cost much: the VPN server do other stuff and is cheap to begin with, the NAS have some maintenance cost for storage, but that’s like a drive every two years top, content never change of disappear, it doesn’t slurp my bandwidth constantly, etc.

Even factoring the cost of a separate backup, since the whole setup store a bunch of other stuff and services, it’s probably more cost efficient too, if you don’t consider the initial setup cost.

And if needed, I can “lift” some content from streaming services too and put them there.

The only reason paying for a streaming service still exist is convenience, at the cost of bending over whatever craziness they come up with.

I stream but from my own server.

Steaming seems a bit too extreme… it might damage or peel off the labels, or even damage the discs themselves, depending on the temperature (and I don’t want to see what it’d do to tape!).

Personally I’ve always found a microfiber cloth to be sufficient.

Yes.

I never had a spotify anccount and I’m still listening to the music I collected 20 years ago.

I’ve gone back to sailing the high seas and don’t regret it. Cost efficient, superior quality, more control and a better service overall. If I do buy music from an artist that actually deserves it, it’s on Bandcamp. I’ve been looking for a physical/analog setup and make copies of those. I’m also learning how to self-host so I can setup a Navidrome server for seamless transition from device to device.

I’ve cancelled all my streaming services. Technically I stream my Bandcamp collection, but I still bought it so it’s somewhat a different model.

The recent wave of artists taking their music off Spotify and how much AI is plaguing that app made me pull the plug.

I buy on Bandcamp and put the FLACs on my Plex server, so I guess I’m technically streaming them, but not for a Spotify fee.