Submitted 20 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.
I like CDs :)
I use spotify because it’s the only one I know of that
If deezer could geht their act together I’d switch to that, but they limit playlists to 2000 tracks. Buying every single song would be way more expensive than streaming, so I just can’t afford to do anything else.
In Poland streaming costs next to nothing, at least on Tidal. I'm regularly using radios and generated playlists containing music I don't have in my collection, so it's definitely cheaper than buying every album
I was using tidal for about a year but I just got really frustrated when my account got lost/interrupted when I updated my phone. I may go back for music discovery and playlists. However right now (and I plan for at least a few more months) I’m going to spend the money on band camp.
I plan to self-host a music server with music ripped from CDs, torrented and bought from Bandcamp and go back to listening to radio. We have plenty of good radio stations here.
I used spotify for a few months about 10 years ago until they doubled their price and removed songs that I had saved in playlists. Since then I haven’t bothered with streaming.
I never paid for Spotify, just used the free tier, eventually got fed up with the ads, learned about spotDL and yt-dlp, so now I just listen to mp3s from my phone
I ended up retrofitting a steamer into an old jukebox so that I can steam my entire library at once. Best way I’ve found to keep my music collection fresh.
yeah im gonna keep paying for it. idk what i would do without it because my library on spotify is so incredibly vast that there is no way i can get all of it downloaded onto my phone. just no way. unless theres like a 12 tb sd card
i am streaming music… from a friend’s homelab :3
I have all my music on a nas with plex so I can stream it from there. Home assistant and Music assistant allow me to play it to any room in the house. Mobile data is expensive in NZ though so I have a terabyte of sd storage in my phone and in the car head unit with music from band camp, ripped cds, ripped vinyl, dj sets from YouTube and mix cloud.
I don’t understand why you would even stream anything at all. You don’t even need a separate device nowadays to carry around a very large library of music (mps3 or even flacs).
I listen to music on multiple devices and don’t want to deal with syncing files and playlists between them.
Also my library is currently 900GB, which would take up almost all the storage on my laptop and I’d have to buy a 1TB SD card to be able to fit it on my phone.
Much easier to just stream it.
Yeah, the benefit to streaming is that you can have much larger libraries. I have +5000 songs on my most commonly played lists, and that’s not even my full library. My devices are already full enough with things like game files (emulators), video files (locally downloaded from my Plex/Jellyfin server so I don’t have to stream video on the shitty work WiFi), and videos/photos from daily life. If I can store my music elsewhere, of course I’m going to do so. I’ll keep one or two common playlists automatically downloaded, but the rest gets streamed.
Fuck streaming. All I need is my local library and an .mp3 player with tactile controls.
I do not understand how people are OK with being reliant on some other service to listen to their music, and how they’re OK with having to deal with a touchscreen if they want to skip tracks or otherwise navigate the library. Not to mention that they don’t even have full control over their playlists, or that songs can disappear…
Conversely, with a dedicated player and knowledge of your own library, you can skip between albums with your eyes closed, and you never have to worry about losing a playlist or song.
I gave up Spotify when the online safety act came in. I store my music locally on my computer. Ideally, I’d like something like jellyfin but I don’t really want to expose anything to the internet right now.
I acquired a lot of my music from bandcamp and piracy COMPLETELY LEGAL MEANS.
I use tailscale, maybe there’s something I’m not aware of that’s risky, but I assume it’s much safer than port forwarding
Tidal hasn’t been raising prices yet
I also use Tidal, their recommendations aren’t as good as spotify, but they also don’t pay Joe Rogan. Also I did a sound quality comparison between the two and most of Tidal’s audio were better. Though every once in a while I run into a weird quality song.
For all you spotify peeps that don’t want to feed the fascist machine, checkout Tidal or Qobuz. You can use the service called tunemymusic to transfer your playlists. One month was like $5.
Interesting. I like a pretty niche style of music and I feel like when they make suggestions after the end of playlists were regularly good enough to get added to the seeding playlists.
I feel like Spotify’s recommendations have seriously gone downhill in the last two or three years. Most of the new music I actually like I’ve found in music comms on Lemmy
YouTube Music has only been raising prices as much as Tidal (and everything except Spotify and Deezer), too; I'm not sure what OP is on about.
I have all 140gb of music I have ever loved enough to keep a copy, I have it on my microSD card on my phone (and backed up)
Samesies! If I find new music I like, I get it on CD whenever possible and rip that.
I pay for a tidal family account and im pretty sure im the only one actually downloading music, ill probably stop paying again once it hits $20/mo for the family plan but it was mainly a means to an end to get my other family members off Spotify.
Last i checked i was around 70k songs, my collection is also all shared on funkwhale and soulseek.
What? I pay $23 for YouTube Premium Family Plan, which includes ad free video and YouTube Music for 4 people. Still pretty reasonable IMO, never going back to Spotify that's for sure, I have thought about trying Qobuz for higher quality, but the price increase across my family plus the fact that I never ever want to war h ads on YouTube makes it a difficult value prop, I'd probably rather buy one album a month from BandCamp.
Same here. Split between 5 people it’s very reasonable. This is the one thing I’m actually afraid to touch when it comes to degoogling
I buy my music from iTunes, I also buy my audiobooks from Apple Books.
I do not rent my music library.
If I go into deep depression I don’t want to have to worry about having to keep paying to access my music, same with my audiobooks.
I typically buy music , most often from Bandcamp. I figure $10/mo gets me one or two albums I can keep forever. I tend to be more depth-first with music, where I get really into a band for a little while then move on, so this works for me.
No, I have to own my music if I’m going to enjoy it; the thought of a company being able to take away music that I love takes away the enjoyment. I need at least the files and the backups under my control. It’s not even about price, I would still buy CDs and rip them if that was the only way.
I steam it because its healthier.
I ended up writing a super janky python script to play my music from my terminal. All of it is stored locally, including lyrics.
Yeah i used to pay for Spotify, then they gave a huge contract to what’s his nuts, now I just have mp3s on my phone
Even tho i have a several TBs library I still stream, because I always went to find and listen to new things that aren’t in my library.
Generally if something is on my library, I’m already tired of it.
So I endup streaming from YouTube music free + unlock origin. If I want to listen to a whole album without having half of it’s songs replaced by a low fidelity music video version I open the album link with mpv or listen to the album from telegram bots like @deezload2bot or @linemusicbot
Yes, streaming, for me, is the gateway to new. I do use Spotify and I’ll say what I’ve said a bajillion times: It has shown me numerous new artists, a good many of which I have given money. It seems like a good deal.
I used to use Spotify, but then I learned that YouTube premium cost the same amount, and came with access to YouTube music, so I switched. Got tired of playing YouTube ad blocking whack-a-mole.
If Google starts enshittifying Premium too much, I’ll go back to sailing the high seas for stuff I’m not going to/can’t get on vinyl.
I only buy music on physical media. It’s the only way I can be sure that I really own it.
I still use soulseek lol
i don’t stream, i buy and play locally; it helps that my apartment wifi is dogshit
if it’s on bandcamp, i buy it there. if it’s not on bandcamp, i have other means
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
Buy it on Bandcamp, then use Apple’s “iTunes music match” service, $25 a year if I remember right, which allows you to stream anything that you own and have added to iTunes, on any Apple device that has the same iCloud account id as iTunes.
Means that the artists get everything (Bandcamp Friday rules!) except the $25 a year.