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.
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 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.
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.
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 🤔
Kettle broke, and it was damaging the vinyl anyway.
I either buy mp3 or download from youtube.
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.
