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Streaming. Favorite artist is the Beatles, but Led Zeppelin is a close second.

Streaming. Mostly YouTube music, some Bandcamp, all legal. Headphones at work, speakers at home. Favorites are many, old and new music, last couple of years it's been Fontaines DC I think, they are just so good, sitting at the intersection of rock & punk & melodic with such awesomely poetic lyrics and the underlying thread of despair of all Irish music.

Setup: Tidal through USB Audio Player on my Samsung Galaxy S23 with an Audioquest DragonFly Cobalt DAC and Sennheiser IE 900 headphones.

Why: because I can taste the sound in my mouth

Some favorites: Erutan, Diana Panton, The Ink Spots, The 8-Bit Big Band, Dir en grey, Eluveitie, Aimer, Paramore, Shiina Ringo, Tokyo Jihen, Yorushika

Tidal

I've been collecting vinyl for close to 20 years now. I didn't mean to but bands and labels were just trying to get rid of them in the mid 2000s so I got a dozen or so free records when preordering CDs. About half of them were not on any other format at the time so I got a record player.

So I mostly listen on that when at home or use volumio as a multi room playback system to stream off qobuz or from a local library on my NAS. I did get into cassettes during the pandemic and do find them rather entertaining.

Favorite band is easy, its Guided by Voices. As for why I can't really say except that they rock. You have to be able to see the brilliant uncut pop gems through the lofi tape hiss. Pretty much all their best stuff sounds like a first take demo tape.

My music library on my PC, often SoundCloud, in phases YouTube Music, or online radio streams.

I pretty much always have music running, unless I actively do something that has relevant audio.

I have my music on my nextcloud instance and nextcloud music app and stream it on my phone using any ampache client

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.

Primarily Spotify, mixed in with SoundCloud and YouTube for live sets.

YT Revanced, and the algo shows me a bop here and there too, like 80s Japanese jazz!

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.

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...

Primarily streaming, although I have a digital media player loaded with tons of FLACs that I use when I'm out and about or in the garden.

I also have a growing record collection of about 100 or so records so I do listen to a lot of records when I'm home.

I don't really have a favourite band, it changes depending on what I feel like but currently I've been listening to

• Thornhill
• Gojira
• King gizzard and the lizard wizard
• Tool
• Animals as leaders
• Smashing pumpkins
• Catslash
• Lorn
• Fcukers

Currently rip my CDs and then listen on my phone/PC as digital music. I also pirate music from artist I find problematic to avoid supporting them, and pirate old music I used to listen to which I plan to purchase later (not really in the position to buy all the music I've listened for free in my whole life, plus I feel like I've streamed them enough to support them, so I don't feel that guilty). My partner has vinyl records, so sometimes I listen to that, too. Also the ocassional concert when I can afford it, of course, I need that sweet live music.

My current favorite band... Probably Twenty One Pilots? I don't listen to a lot of bands lol, I mostly listen to solo artists, in which case my favorite artist is by far Ren.

I like Twenty One Pilots because they're like everything teen me would've loved. Specially a fan of Self Titled / NPI era. Raw garage-tier songs about your problems with God, and faith overall? Sign me tf in, I've had quite the history with religion.

And I like Ren because of his hard-to-label music style from song to song, while so very clearly being a Ren song, with all of his theatrics, lyricism, life struggles, cynisism, and a splash of religion. I've been following him for a while and it's amazing to see so far he's come.

Speaking of Ren and Twenty One Pilots... They're playing at a festival together next year (REN BARELY PLAYS LIVE)... And I can't fucking attend because it's in another continent. fuck me.

Recently bought a DAP (Digital Audio Player) and started downloading to distance myself from Spotify’s increasingly intrusive push of AI-riddled music and podcasts. Large commercial artists are torrented, while smaller bands’ music off of bandcamp and qobuz.

I still have my Spotify account to reference songs that I’ve bookmarked, but since I ended my subscription I no longer use it frequently enough to discover new music as I detest ads. Now I discover new music throughs combination of falling down youtube rabbit holes, and browsing various lemmy communities, /c/eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online (I forget how to link communities. I’m also considering checking out last.fm and other music services like that.

Bands I've been enjoying lately:

• Magdalena Bay
• Night Tapes
• Feng Suave
• Rikas
• The Beths
• The Marias
• Djo

I'm also looking forward to purchasing the new Paper Kites album when it releases in January. :)

Spotify, though I'm not thrilled about it.

Until there's a pirate streaming/download service that recommends similar songs/artists, I don't think I'll switch.

RIP Spotube :(

revanced youtube music. i started collecting stuff in a youtube playlist a long time ago, and at this point i't be quite a hassle to switch, so i always put it off. also, you can't really beat the simplicity of discovering a song through the algorithm and instantly having available on all devices without having to faff around with downloading it to a selfhosted insert service