Submitted 1 month 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.
Don't assume I'm one of those people. I only threw down a dollar just to get three months of SiriusXM and I only listen to comedy on it. I have an IPod Touch with music and car manufacturer's suck dick on complicating the idea of plugging in IPod devices and letting them work as normal. No, we're suddenly required to have ApplePlay or Android Auto.
Good luck trying to cancel XM radio 🤣
Um, I have done so successfully?
If my phone had 2TB of storage, I might play it locally.
But I also don’t need to pay a service. I use my own media server at home to connect to.
Music doesn’t take that much storage? I download songs I listen to on Invidious / yt-dlp and a 3 minute song ranges from about 2 to 5 megabytes.
It does when you have fucktons of songs. My music collection on the media box is almost 2TB.
i keep my favourite music on my phone and use newpipe for everything else, absolutely fucking baffles me that most people keep paying for streaming services
I don’t stream my music, and only did for a little bit when it was newer and fairly novel. I strongly agree with you, most people don’t listen to diverse enough music that streaming makes sense other than pure convenience. That convenience is clearly all it takes for the majority of people.
I mostly use qobuz when out and about and vinyl at home. Music streaming is the one streaming media I don’t find objectionable as a consumer. All the services have pretty much the same catalog so pick based on features. I still buy my favorite albums though so the artist actually gets money.
I have a streaming service, but most of my music is physical. I have around 800 CDs and a comparable number of records. I also listen to the radio, seeing as how we have an actually great station
I get my music from KCRW.
I do donate, but it’s not necessary if you can’t afford to.
I use Spotify because someone in the family got a family plan. I probably have about 80 different songs I listen to over and over in a month, with randomly listening into other playlists. I keep my playlists “offline” on Spotify, so not really streaming much either. Probably about 700-1000 songs I keep available offline.
Idk, my wife pays for it so I use it. Easier to use the family subscription then continue sailing the seas. If the price gets too much I’ll take the helm back as captain of entertainment.
I use an air fryer
No actually I’ve used physical media since the 90s and haven’t had a reason to change
I mostly listen to MiniDiscs.
I pay for Tidal (afaik the best music streaming service) and keep a tidy vinyl collection. Vinyl because it’s the coziest way to listen to music and my girlfriend likes reading the lyrics from the inserts. CD unfortunately had to go with the last move.
My dad pays for the family Spotify subscription. lol
I’m listening to YouTube music with addblock. Which I am surprised isn’t a more common setup because it’s zero effort.
And a lot of burned CD of YouTube to MP3 because my car still has its 2000s radio player which doesn’t have USB.
Yes, I like to stir fry mine.
Very infrequently stream. I buy vinyl and bandcamp.
I don’t stream very often, when I do I use Apple Music because I have the discounted package subscription. Even then, I typically only stream specific punk playlists. Otherwise, I listen to the MP3s I ripped from my CDs or downloaded 20 years ago.
I also usually listen to the radio in the car. A local station plays a lot of the stuff I like (Green Day, Social Distortion, Ramones etc) and mixes in new stuff. Plus, I live so close to the southern US border, sometimes they throw in some local Mexican rock band.
It’s pretty cheap in the third world👍
Where are you seeing prices trending towards $30?
I’ll pay for as long as it’s worth it, and Spotify is worth every cent even though I have hundreds of gigs of music available on my plex server.
I use spotify and i was very reluctant to start. Eventually i caved because i wanted an algorithm to help me find new music and for the most part spotify does a decent job at that. As things get more expensive it will be one of the first things I’ll cut out.
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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