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 stream but from my own server.
Yes.
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.
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.
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’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.
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 never had a spotify anccount and I’m still listening to the music I collected 20 years ago.
My collection of records, cassettes and CDs have come out of storage and I started buying new ones. I might even start making mix tapes again.
I might even start making mix tapes again.
This is when having a high-end 1989 Technics cassette deck in your 1986 VW Jetta Carat comes in really handy.
Kettle broke, and it was damaging the vinyl anyway.
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 either buy mp3 or download from youtube.
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.
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.
