Streaming? CDs ? Cassettes? Reels? USB sticks? Mp3? Flac? Legal/illegal/Grauzone? What’s your favorite band? Why?
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These days, I avoid Spotify, or anything else with their ridiculous advertisements. I used to pay for Spotify but they charge so much for paying so little to the artists that I didn’t want to support them anymore. Not to mention that I truly dislike this algorithmic world we live in, where things are “recommended” for me, but it’s part of an endless conveyer belt of things being sent my way when I didn’t ask for it.
I’m working on getting a record player so I can just intentionally play the music I want. I also like the physicality of it. It feels easier to dive into the artist’s vision of the album as a full experience.
- Spotify for social and casual listening
- Tidal for curated personal music listening time
- brain.fm and endel for background music
- youtube music for rare finds
- youtube premium for tv music like tiny desk concerts and party tv
- mp3 through bone conducting earphones for workout, especially water sports. I try not to take my phone to avoid distractions.
I mostly use Apple Music because I have it and it’s easy access to a huge catalog of artists. I started using a little cheap MP3 player in my car that’s loaded with old Punk o Rama compilation albums, some ripped from my own collection, but many were downloaded because they are hard to find now.
I found a bunch of good bands at my library, so I checked the cds out and ripped them to my PC. I also frequent thrift stores for cheap books and cds. I’m slowly learning how to set up my own home network and I’d like to stream my own stuff on the go, but I have a lot to learn before that.
My favorite band is Green Day. I fell in love with them when I was 10 and heard them on the radio in the early 90s. They were my introduction to punk music and were my lifeline during some really rough parts of my life. I survived because of the 1039 smooth album and Star Wars Pod Racer on N64.
Primarily Spotify, mixed in with SoundCloud and YouTube for live sets.
Mostly stuff I bought from Bandcamp. It’s drm free, but for convenience I usually let it stream from the app.
I also have a bunch of mp3s from older purchases I listen to sometimes, but I don’t have a media server set up so that’s mostly limited to my desktop.
Sometimes I’ll pull up a specific track on YouTube, but that’s mostly for “do you remember this song?” stuff. Adblock and the “resume playback from lock screen” make it bearable.
mostly mp3s, but I also use iBroadcast to stream my personal library on other devices
favorite band is The Magnetic Fields, favorite album 69 Love Songs, favorite song “100,000 Fireflies”
for streaming, Soma.fm. for everything else, ripped CD’s and mp3s/flac I’ve found all over the internet that I’ve collected for 20 something years. I use jellyfin and a VPN to listen to my stuff from my phone.
Never streaming or radio. I like to choose what I want, and want uninterrupted play (not reliant on internet), when I want, and often prefer stuff where all or most of the album is good, so I listen mostly in order and almost never shuffle.
Mostly mp3’s on whatever works for the device. Phone mp3’s, USB for game console and car. Sometimes vinyl. Even record the vinyl’s sometimes so I can play the vinyl mix anywhere since vinyl’s tend to be mixed differently.
A mixture of hard-drive storage and streaming.
I like to change it up. I’ll listen to USBs on my stereo, or on my phone with earphones. I listen to USBs which have mp3s from all over the place, YouTube, Radio Garden, and regular radio (on a stereo where you have to manually tune it to a station). I’m constantly unearthing new music, and music that’s new to me.
Files downloaded from Soulseek and Bandcamp. Supplemented by Metrolist.
I stream FLAC on Qobuz. Sometimes I listen to CDs. My favourite band is Rush, I love Neil Peart’s lyrics along with how great the three of them are at their respective instruments.
Used to be Spotify, now Tidal. Would prefer Qobuz, but it’s significantly more expensive on the family tier.
Usually on headphones, og on HEOS via tidal connect - or, I would have preferred that, but it’s super broken, so now from the tidal integration (not connect) on a wiiim…
With my ears
Anymore there are a few songs on yt that I listen to that I haven’t downloaded. Otherwise it’s mostly all local files on my devices. File type varies.
Otherwise, I have a bunch of CDs that I can either play using my desktop or battery hog of an old Discman. Pros for desktop is I have access to my higher quality bluetooth headphones and can move and do other things whole listening. Pros for the CD player is I have an old pair of 90s in ear Sony headphones that came with it.
Couldn’t tell you a particular group for a favorite band right now since I’ve been listening to a fair bit of 90s ( basically all my CDs ) when it comes to most of the band music I’ve been listening to.
