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.
I pay for Spotify, price hasn’t raised in years. I pay for a family plan so mother people from my family (that live in different countries) can use it too.
I work on my computer, so I’m usually listening to music all day long, I have multiple playlists I alter depending on my mood, plus several albums as well. So, yeah, I think it’s worth it for me. That being said if they removed the family sharing or increased their price drastically I would definitely consider alternatives.
My problem is that I want to be able to get suggestions for music that I might like based on what I listen to. If I just downloaded music I like I’ll just end up listening to that and nothing else.
So don’t just download music you like, indiscriminately download as much as you can. Then you can get suggestions from your self hosted software.
I buy CDs a lot. I love CDs. I love ripping them.
Yeah it keeps the wrinkles out, but I’m in a damp climate. I don’t want mildew.
I have mp3s and an 800 KB binary that can play them. That’s it.
People massively overcomplicate this.
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
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.
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 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.
Just like broccoli.
Get a load of this guy. He still listens to 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’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.
