Submitted 18 hours ago by AshCircuit@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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.
If by streaming, you mean using a client-server architecture to get a sound signal to the aux port, then yes, I use mpv with pipewire.
Yeah it keeps the wrinkles out, but I’m in a damp climate. I don’t want mildew.
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 stream but from my own server.
I’ve got a collection curated over the last 15 years by my partner with over 40k tracks. I can shuffle and it will play for over 3 months without a repeat.
Just like broccoli.
As a teen I used to pirate it and supplement with the very occasional cd purchase. I felt justified at the time given I did still pay at least sometimes and I couldn’t afford to otherwise. These days, it became so ubiquitous on YouTube that I just never felt the need to buy it or torrent it and the filesharing networks all kinda disappeared anyway.
It’s not exactly ethical since I use adblockers but it’s just there, always instantly available and at zero cost. I’d never use a subscription service, I have no idea how much, if any music I would consume over a fixed period so paying a fixed monthly quantity makes no sense at all.
I guess the issue with this is that it’s hard to discover new music. I guess it’s a little sad but really but truth be told the rate of discovery for me has been significantly curtailed since high school, I guess I was never a connoisseur or great appreciator of music so my imagination in the space was pretty limited to just whatever my friends were listening to.
Honestly the era of internet music (privately) is over. Don’t get me wrong; there are anonymizing wrappers for YouTube music, and while you’re not going to find small bands you can still easily pirate big acts. But if you want to find new-new music, it’s time to grab tickets to some local shows again.
I steam it because ironing melts the vinyl.
It’s also the only cooking method that preserves nutrients in the groovy basslines
Do you only use Monster steamers? Gold plated to transfer the steam without losing the lower frequencies?
ahem
It’s an Albany expression.
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 don’t, I just play the thousands of mp3s I’ve collected over the years.
I’ve been buying and ripping CDs since 2007. I average 8 per year, and it limits my music discovery speed a fair bit - but that’s OK.
When someone suggests a new song/band, I listen on YouTube/Vevo, and put up with the ad. It’s fine. It convinces me whether I want to buy their CD or not most of the time.
I am streaming my music, but from my own server at home.
What’s your preferred client? I switched from plexamp to fintunes, but I really hate the app and the lack of functionality.
Jellyfin + Symfonium is such a great experience
Jellyfin has pretty good Linux PC clients too. Even the main Jellyfin client works well for music.
My music taste is pretty narrow and my music library is small (<800 songs). I wouldn’t ever pay for streaming.
I’ve been using mpd (Music Player Daemon), originally with icecast bc it didn’t have built-in http streaming, but it has for a long time now, 10+ years.
Plexamp. It does everything I want flawlessly, so I really have no desire to switch.
You’re still streaming music?
Get a load of this guy. He still listens to music. 😏
I prefer it poached or grilled, but I’ll accept steamed
Deep fried for me. Yes my cholesterol doesn’t like it, but eh…
Me who pirates all his music:
Kinda like that other guy, once I ripped my cd collection to digital, just didn’t even get into streaming.
Still make mixtapes the old fashioned way for my partner (corny lol I know) and I buy the occasional remaster at a local thrift shop, or the old baked out hippie running a music / instrument shop.
It’s an honest joy.
I use bandcamp and buy cheesy jazz records.
Honestly, steaming seems like a waste of time. What if I damage my music? The smell would be awful. Also it gets too noodley for my taste.
It’s digital nowadays, just throw it in some rice
Mmm, steamed hams!
I’ve never paid for a streaming service. All my music is on my local device.
I have a bunch of stuff DRM-free and ripped from CDs I’ve bought. I’ve been against drm for a while, just takes practice to maintain the habit
You call it steamed music, despite the fact that it is obviously grilled.
I’m not. Look into self hosting. Jellyfin, Navidrome or Plex. The first two are free and open source, but don’t have remote access built in.
I never liked streamimg music that demamds constant internet connection, ads in between, and unability to skip forward unless you’re subscribed.
Probably.
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.
All my music lives in a folder called music that gets synced to all my devices. Don’t ask me how I sync the folder across all my devices though
Never paid for streaming. Usually buy music and download the files to play on my computer or stream them from the computer to my phone or wherever. Mainly have been buying lossless .flac music files from Bandcamp.
Bandcamp is the way if you’re into any smaller genre of music.
I like to air fry mine, gives it a nice crunchy sound 👌🏻
Oddly, I’ve just returned to FM radio. I do have a large collection of songs stored locally, but I want to hear new recommendations (and not from an algorithm but from free public radio).
Same but with internet radio. Most big public universities have a radio station, and mirror it on an internet radio stream. I’ve just looked up various universities across the continent and found ones that actually have good human DJs.
Great time to plug Radio Garden.
IDK how, but just about every radio station you could ask for is on that app - across the globe. Super cool stuff!
Oh yes! That, too. Where I lived previously, I liked to see what LMUs station was playing (Culver City area) and the songs ranged from college punk bands, to classical music, to experimental… music of wailing sounds? My favorite was when it started playing video game remixes just randomly. University radio is wild.
I feel like streaming music isn’t that expensive. Wasn’t music like $1-1.3 before streaming services? If you listen to one new album a month you’ve basically broken even
Treczoks@lemmy.world 38 minutes ago
No, I am frying my music. It gives the sound a crispier edge.