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.

Wife kicked me off our joined Spotify membership (we both agreed to her using student discount for her account) so I’ve setup plexamp for my albums. I mean technically streaming but self-hosted.

Has android auto, and the in app interface is reasonable.

Its kind of nice, just to play an album you own vs having a neverending list of songs you might enjoy.

Yeah my car is filthy 😇

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.

Huh. I get my money’s worth and more from streaming, have found so much music I like, and before streaming I listened to the radio (we have good community radio here, I still do listen to the radio and go to live shows) and went to concerts but didn’t buy music because I despaired of ever building or organizing the sort of collection that would contain even close to the amount of music I want to listen to.

If streaming disappeared tomorrow, what I’d save wouldn’t pay for even one concert a month.

I really, really use the heck out of it, my whole family does.

I’m not, and I’ve enjoyed the process of finding my own music again. I started buying music CDs; there’s a used bookstore near me with a giant shelf of CDs for $1 each. I set up a music server (I chose Funkwhale, although Navidrome seems to be the more popular choice) that I upload everything to, so I can still stream things, it’s just from my own server. And I bought an MP3 player.

i’ve gotten some cooked mp3s before. i don’t know if they got that way through steaming or what but i did need to uncook them before i eventually burned them 🤔

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

Kettle broke, and it was damaging the vinyl anyway.

Well I used Spotify in the past but prices are increasing over here so canceled that a long time ago. Now I’m using Symfonium with my Navidrome server manage my local library of songs. Now I just download them to the devices for offline listening.

I buy physical copies if available, usually only if available in a local store or directly from their bandcamp or a show, otherwise yarr matey.

I either buy mp3 or download from youtube.

People pay to stream music?

I thought most people just put up with ads, or get the revanced version of the app with ads removed.

Then you have the smaller group that downloads off of any good distribution site, and then the small minority of music archive torrentors.

I think I only ever met one person who actually paid for youtube premium, but my sample size is probably too small.

I prefer mine broiled.

But I’ve also never paid for a music service.