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.
No, I am frying my music. It gives the sound a crispier edge.
Yeah it keeps the wrinkles out, but I’m in a damp climate. I don’t want mildew.
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.
Oh and I buy music from GoG and Steam.
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
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 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.
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.
Get a load of this guy. He still listens to music. 😏
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 never did. 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.
You’re still streaming music?
Me who pirates all his music:
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
