@rustyh3 i sprung for premium for that reason. I don’t mind paying for a service if i use it a lot. (I mean after all. I kept my VMP here all this time!)
Obviously something has to pay for all that music… and the servers… and the employees, etc.
@Fuzzalini@rustyh3 Actually, I think that’s the one I opted for also. No ads but you can’t pick a specific song, which is fine with me. I am generally not looking to hear a specific song, just want background music (that I inevitably find myself humming to or whistling). Change the channel/feed/seed every now and then and it’s all good!
Thanks for clarifying that. BTW you can save about $5 by paying for a year at a whack. ($54.89 for 12 months, essentially one month free)
Oh, and that’s free if you have certain T-Mobile plans.
@Mehrocco_Mole@thismyusername we lost two Rock/alternative music stations. The only one that was left was classic rock. They don’t call the station classic rock anymore, but they still play Welcome to the Jungle several times a day. It’s rare that they play anything modern. If you go farther south into Florida, they don’t even get that station. Such a bummer.
@RiotDemon we went from a classic rock and a modern (well, not-classic) rock station to two classic rock stations. Maybe it was about the time Welcome to the Jungle became classic rock, I guess. Sucks.
But we have like three pop stations, four rap stations and seventy three country stations, and sometimes they all play the same song when a country rap pop song is being pushed really hard upon the public.
The only positive, if you can call it one, is that the oldies station plays music from the '90s now.
@phendrick I find it interesting that my college-age daughter who has several hundred dollars worth of songs on her iTunes still prefers to listen to the radio more often than her phone, especially while driving.
@rtjhnstn Whadya mean? They play at least 5 different songs every hour (and the same 5 through the day, it seems). And that is on the “classic” rock stations.
What bugs me more, is that they play ten times as much Stones as Beatles (I love the Beatles and they have a lot more top 10 hits, I would think – I bet you could easily name 20 Beatles hits off the top of your head; try doing 10 of the Stones), more Journey (great band, but… ) than Doors, more Sting than Dylan, more Kiss than Heart, etc., etc. More Ozzie Ozborne than Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. At least I do hear a lot of Queen around here.
I also listen to Country occasionally, but I can only do that for a few hours a couple times a week, unless they are in a mood to play classics like John Anderson, Johnny Cash, Willie, George Strait.
I could go for some Deep Purple or Iron Butterfly or Led Zeppelin right now. Time to dig out some of my CDs or head for YouTube and make them some money from their damn ads.
Physical CD’s. I’m starting to have audiophile tendencies. IMO, they sound better than what you can get from digital services (Google Play, Amazon Music, etc.).
I get them from either Amazon, FYE website, or eBay seller import_cds. The wife however told me to stop ordering CD’s in an age where you can instantly get them online. She’s nothing close to a audiophile.
I should add I’m trying to pay for music I got for free in college and high school. Kazaa, RapidShare, friend’s music college…
I keep a Kindle that only has ONE job… Feed Pandora to the transmitter for my wireless speakers. It’s got a permanent dedicated charger and runs about 8 to 12 hours a day if we are home and the wife isn’t studying. We have maxed out the stations…
@z4kanis Even in the cases where I don’t want the physical media, I still sometimes find myself buying a CD from Amazon. A large majority of CDs on Amazon include the downloadable MP3 for free. Sometimes, the option to buy the physical CD (with free MP3) is cheaper than just buying the MP3 by itself.
@Limewater While digital music certainly has a more efficient delivery mechanism, there is something decidedly less satisfying from a gift-giving standpoint then there is with physical media.
@DrWorm Yes. And physical discs usually cost essentially the same as the digital download but you get liner notes and album art.
And I can always rip my CDs to a DRM-free, lower-quality format. I can’t convert a lossy MP3 back into a CD.
Tidal and Roon, as well as a ridiculous number of CDs that I’m in the process of re-ripping to high bit rate FLAC files, high-res digital files, SACDs, and vinyl.
I’m trying to use Spotify more since my wife got a premium family account, but I have Pandora stations I’ve spent years curating that are hard to give up.
Brick and mortar, vinyl and CD shows (one in Wayne NJ is open monthly), Berkshire Record Outlet (which is sadly mail order only now). I rarely use a streaming service.
@TBoneZeOriginal Not for very much longer. Still not sure how they’re going to roll that out. I don’t use it but I have at least 30 people at clients that use iTunes. Oh well, maybe cha ching for me when they do change over?
@Kidsandliz Everything plays fine. Like I said, nothing changed, really. They just split the app up into separate apps to make things more efficient. The Music app still plays like iTunes always has.
@TBoneZeOriginal Oh good. Thanks. I was afraid I’d loose all the CD’s I uploaded to itunes on my computer. I had read we wouldn’t lose what we had purchased, but they didn’t address the stuff we added on our own.
These days it’s Pandora, unless I want a specific song, then it’s Youtube. I also have a pretty big collection of mp3s I ripped from CDs or stole using Limewire from the iPod days, but I rarely use those anymore.
I’ve always used Spotify, but lately I get recommendations that seem way out of place to what I listen to. Amazon Music tends to be better about that, but I seem to only use it with my firestick due to its default settings. Other than that, ripped songs from Youtube work if I can ignore the quality drop.
1.8 tb torrent of lossless music from the particular subgenre i follow. unfortunately the maintainer has somewhat lost interest and hasn’t updated in a year and a half. i keep trying to estimate the degree of incompleteness in the collection, and i think it’s a bit under half the size it could be.
@lifftchi when I downloaded a mass torrent of music some years back our internet got shut off. When my wife called the cable company they said that someone was downloading a Kanye West song. She threatened to murder me for having poor taste in music. I had no idea there was any Yeezy in the torrent to begin with. I think it was an obscure remix. And thus ended my use of torrents.
Yes, I know there are ways around what happened. But the worst part of that experience was having someone think I wanted to listen to Kanye West, and I’d rather not have that happen again.
Primarily use Amazon Music (not Unlimited) which I loved the “Auto Rip” on so many of the CD’s I bought from them. I still purchase physical medium more often than not in CD format via eBay, Amazon. I just wish I could add to my music like I used to be able to.
I pay far too much for SiriusXM, I also have YouTube Premium and Amazon Prime music that I regularly stream. I have an Echo Auto, and it’s mostly too clunky, so I think the SXM is going to stick around.
I stopped using Amazon Music because they would make 5000 new and irrelevant recommendations every time I listened to so much as a song. Bandcamp covers most of my needs, and I do iTunes for the rest.
New releases I usually get from Amazon, mostly digital, but some physical CDs still. Then it pretty much all goes to my Plex server for consumption. Listening to not exactly mainstream music, I do find a few things on Bandcamp as well.
I use YouTube Music but only because it’s bundled into YouTube Premium. Otherwise I’d would be using Spotify. Didn’t want to pay for both YouTube Premium and Spotify so I have to settle for YouTube Music for my music with is still mediocre. I still use Google Play Music some as well which is currently much better than YouTube Music.
Channel 21 on SiriusXM most of the time. Or YouTube, or from the massive number of CDs I’ve been accumulating since 1989, and ripping to MP3 since that became a thing. If I really like something, I buy the physical media so the artist actually gets some money out of me.
You should rip your CD’s to FLAC or some other lossless codec as long as your player can play those.
Don’t worry, we’re all getting old.
Also, I heard a while ago artists only get like $0.10 for each album sold. That’s why they go on tour to make decent money. I don’t know how true that is…
Hi friend, I get the feeling you’re getting ready to spam us with some Chinese music site. Usually I’d be all up in that…but since @mediocrebot specifically asked…who am I to judge?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What… no Pandora???
@chienfou I still love Pandora. They have a great library, and I enjoy being surprised by the next song. I guess I’m just old. (I’m Gen X, btw.)
@chienfou way lot more ads these days but great collections of music.
@Fuzzalini I came here to say the same thing (including that I’m old)
@rustyh3 i sprung for premium for that reason. I don’t mind paying for a service if i use it a lot. (I mean after all. I kept my VMP here all this time!)
Obviously something has to pay for all that music… and the servers… and the employees, etc.
@chienfou @rustyh3 I also pay for Pandora but I don’t need the Premium. They have a $4.99 a month option that’s fine for me.
@Fuzzalini @rustyh3 Actually, I think that’s the one I opted for also. No ads but you can’t pick a specific song, which is fine with me. I am generally not looking to hear a specific song, just want background music (that I inevitably find myself humming to or whistling). Change the channel/feed/seed every now and then and it’s all good!
Thanks for clarifying that. BTW you can save about $5 by paying for a year at a whack. ($54.89 for 12 months, essentially one month free)
Oh, and that’s free if you have certain T-Mobile plans.
Napster.
@Zeusandhera Limewire?
@Zeusandhera They still around?!
Google Play Music
@RiotDemon not anymore…
@brainmist I imported to YouTube music and it’s working fine for me still.
Amazon Prime music. Hate that they have some locked behind a second paywall, though. No unlimited for me.
As long as, “Alexa, play 80s music” works, I’m happy enough.
@Tin_Foil 80s … aka oldies music?
@narfcake Well, sure. I’m old.
@Tin_Foil 60s on up for me. It’s quite jarring to hear the local “oldies” station play mostly 80s and even some early 90s now, though.
@narfcake @Tin_Foil Yes, I almost cried when I heard Wonderwall on our local oldies station. Felt so old.
From the concert. Even if I can stream something I’ll pick up CDs from the shows of artists that I like.
Radio stations still exist ya know! I listen in the car.
@Mehrocco_Mole
“Coming up NEXT 40 minutes of commercial free music.”
proceeds to play 40 minutes of commercials.
@Mehrocco_Mole @thismyusername we lost two Rock/alternative music stations. The only one that was left was classic rock. They don’t call the station classic rock anymore, but they still play Welcome to the Jungle several times a day. It’s rare that they play anything modern. If you go farther south into Florida, they don’t even get that station. Such a bummer.
@RiotDemon @thismyusername We still have good rock stations here in Florida. Well, some of them are in Mobile, AL, but we can listen to them.
@Mehrocco_Mole when I drive North/West, some better stations do show up. I’m on the east coast/sort of south and we are seriously missing out.
I use CDs in my car and now I have one of those cassette tape adapters to use my phone.
@RiotDemon we went from a classic rock and a modern (well, not-classic) rock station to two classic rock stations. Maybe it was about the time Welcome to the Jungle became classic rock, I guess. Sucks.
But we have like three pop stations, four rap stations and seventy three country stations, and sometimes they all play the same song when a country rap pop song is being pushed really hard upon the public.
The only positive, if you can call it one, is that the oldies station plays music from the '90s now.
Columbia House of course…
@sicc574 buy one get 10 free… I miss those days!
I think I pay enough for Amazon Prime that it should include Amazon Music Unlimited!
I got two main sources, AM and FM. Good enough for my lo-fi hearing.
@phendrick But they have no real selection
@phendrick I find it interesting that my college-age daughter who has several hundred dollars worth of songs on her iTunes still prefers to listen to the radio more often than her phone, especially while driving.
@phendrick @smyle That’s actually a good thing… less fiddling with phone = safer driving!
@rtjhnstn Whadya mean? They play at least 5 different songs every hour (and the same 5 through the day, it seems). And that is on the “classic” rock stations.
What bugs me more, is that they play ten times as much Stones as Beatles (I love the Beatles and they have a lot more top 10 hits, I would think – I bet you could easily name 20 Beatles hits off the top of your head; try doing 10 of the Stones), more Journey (great band, but… ) than Doors, more Sting than Dylan, more Kiss than Heart, etc., etc. More Ozzie Ozborne than Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. At least I do hear a lot of Queen around here.
I also listen to Country occasionally, but I can only do that for a few hours a couple times a week, unless they are in a mood to play classics like John Anderson, Johnny Cash, Willie, George Strait.
I could go for some Deep Purple or Iron Butterfly or Led Zeppelin right now. Time to dig out some of my CDs or head for YouTube and make them some money from their damn ads.
@smyle Tell her to be careful, or she will grow up to be like me.
A record store.
Typically Amazon. Wherever I can get a non-DRM, downloadable file, e.g., MP3 (or better).
Physical CD’s. I’m starting to have audiophile tendencies. IMO, they sound better than what you can get from digital services (Google Play, Amazon Music, etc.).
I get them from either Amazon, FYE website, or eBay seller import_cds. The wife however told me to stop ordering CD’s in an age where you can instantly get them online. She’s nothing close to a audiophile.
I should add I’m trying to pay for music I got for free in college and high school. Kazaa, RapidShare, friend’s music college…
Prime and pandora. How are these not options? Lol
Also, I buy new stuff on vinyl all the time.
I mostly use Spotify, but I also buy CDs of the bands I really love. (I order from Amazon)
iHeartRadio
Wherever music happens.
/youtube flash mob Jupiter
@f00l Great!!! I’m sorry I wasn’t there, it must have been quite a thrill to see!
@andyw
I didn’t see this happen, tho I’m very glad they did it. I just happened across it in Youtibe and liked it enough to re-watch once in a while.
I keep a Kindle that only has ONE job… Feed Pandora to the transmitter for my wireless speakers. It’s got a permanent dedicated charger and runs about 8 to 12 hours a day if we are home and the wife isn’t studying. We have maxed out the stations…
CD’s from Amazon
@z4kanis Even in the cases where I don’t want the physical media, I still sometimes find myself buying a CD from Amazon. A large majority of CDs on Amazon include the downloadable MP3 for free. Sometimes, the option to buy the physical CD (with free MP3) is cheaper than just buying the MP3 by itself.
I have a collection of over 400 CDs, none less than 15 years old. My ex-wife worked for a music distributor.
I sometimes ask for music for my birthday or Christmas. When I ask for music, I always ask for CDs. They are never ordered from Amazon.
@Limewater While digital music certainly has a more efficient delivery mechanism, there is something decidedly less satisfying from a gift-giving standpoint then there is with physical media.
@DrWorm Yes. And physical discs usually cost essentially the same as the digital download but you get liner notes and album art.
And I can always rip my CDs to a DRM-free, lower-quality format. I can’t convert a lossy MP3 back into a CD.
@DrWorm @Limewater One other aspect: resale. It’s legal to resell a used CD but it’s not legal to sell downloaded digital files.
@DrWorm @Limewater @narfcake
The RIAA Inquisitor:
Sirius XM and Iheartradio
Spotify since 2012.
Tidal and Roon, as well as a ridiculous number of CDs that I’m in the process of re-ripping to high bit rate FLAC files, high-res digital files, SACDs, and vinyl.
Amazon if I want hard copy/CD or ripped from a YouTube video if I just want a particular song.
I’m trying to use Spotify more since my wife got a premium family account, but I have Pandora stations I’ve spent years curating that are hard to give up.
Brick and mortar, vinyl and CD shows (one in Wayne NJ is open monthly), Berkshire Record Outlet (which is sadly mail order only now). I rarely use a streaming service.
My MiniDisc collection. Sometimes, I’ll fire up my DAT machine…replacing the motor’s rubber band of course.
Zune Marketplace
@medz I still have my Zune … somewhere. It was one of my earliest purchases from Woot.
@medz I wonder how the Zune Tattoo guy is doing these days.
Should really say iTunes/Apple Music. Two totally different services that use the same software.
@TBoneZeOriginal Not for very much longer. Still not sure how they’re going to roll that out. I don’t use it but I have at least 30 people at clients that use iTunes. Oh well, maybe cha ching for me when they do change over?
@Fuzzalini You’re mistaken. iTunes the software will no longer exist, but the iTunes Store will continue on as it always has within the “Music” app.
I’ve been running the beta, and really nothing has changed. They just split the software up so it’s less bloated.
@TBoneZeOriginal I’m a bit late reading this thread. With what they have done can you still play your itunes music or is that dead now too?
@Kidsandliz Everything plays fine. Like I said, nothing changed, really. They just split the app up into separate apps to make things more efficient. The Music app still plays like iTunes always has.
@TBoneZeOriginal Oh good. Thanks. I was afraid I’d loose all the CD’s I uploaded to itunes on my computer. I had read we wouldn’t lose what we had purchased, but they didn’t address the stuff we added on our own.
Currently Amazon Music Unlimited, but I’ve used Spotify and Apple Music too.
Google Play Music until they pry it from me and force me to use Youtube music (blech) and then maybe something else.
These days it’s Pandora, unless I want a specific song, then it’s Youtube. I also have a pretty big collection of mp3s I ripped from CDs or stole using Limewire from the iPod days, but I rarely use those anymore.
I buy CD’s at concerts or Amazon. mp3s from Amazon. Stream from Spotify
Kazaa Lite
Music is why I employ the voices in my head, they just sing to me all day long
Amazon prime music. I thought the “band camp” in the options was a silly joke but I see someone just mentioned it. Now I need to check that out
I’ve always used Spotify, but lately I get recommendations that seem way out of place to what I listen to. Amazon Music tends to be better about that, but I seem to only use it with my firestick due to its default settings. Other than that, ripped songs from Youtube work if I can ignore the quality drop.
1.8 tb torrent of lossless music from the particular subgenre i follow. unfortunately the maintainer has somewhat lost interest and hasn’t updated in a year and a half. i keep trying to estimate the degree of incompleteness in the collection, and i think it’s a bit under half the size it could be.
@lifftchi when I downloaded a mass torrent of music some years back our internet got shut off. When my wife called the cable company they said that someone was downloading a Kanye West song. She threatened to murder me for having poor taste in music. I had no idea there was any Yeezy in the torrent to begin with. I think it was an obscure remix. And thus ended my use of torrents.
Yes, I know there are ways around what happened. But the worst part of that experience was having someone think I wanted to listen to Kanye West, and I’d rather not have that happen again.
Anywhere that sells music in either MP3, Ogg, or FLAC format.
Relevant?
@blaineg Seger is always relevant!
slsk
What.cd.
Amazon Music Unlimited
Prime music, some CDs (usually used), Spotify, YT
Listening to music is still a thing?
@ruouttaurmind I just put sticks in my ears and wiggle them around.
@blaineg @ruouttaurmind lol. I conjured up an image on that one.
@blaineg @lseeber @ruouttaurmind …but are they
Bluetooth sticks??
@blaineg @chienfou @ruouttaurmind Probably will be if you drive them in hard enough and the bruising begins.
@lseeber
https://my-free-mp3s.com/
Tidal & Pandora
Primarily use Amazon Music (not Unlimited) which I loved the “Auto Rip” on so many of the CD’s I bought from them. I still purchase physical medium more often than not in CD format via eBay, Amazon. I just wish I could add to my music like I used to be able to.
I pay far too much for SiriusXM, I also have YouTube Premium and Amazon Prime music that I regularly stream. I have an Echo Auto, and it’s mostly too clunky, so I think the SXM is going to stick around.
I stopped using Amazon Music because they would make 5000 new and irrelevant recommendations every time I listened to so much as a song. Bandcamp covers most of my needs, and I do iTunes for the rest.
Amazon Music for the autorip feature and then Google music with my own, personally ripped music library.
Spotify (poking at Apple Music), CDs and rips thereof, Youtube, Bandcamp, Pandora sometimes. Very occasionally, the radio.
New releases I usually get from Amazon, mostly digital, but some physical CDs still. Then it pretty much all goes to my Plex server for consumption. Listening to not exactly mainstream music, I do find a few things on Bandcamp as well.
I DJ a bit, so I have a subscription at idjpool.com
I use YouTube Music but only because it’s bundled into YouTube Premium. Otherwise I’d would be using Spotify. Didn’t want to pay for both YouTube Premium and Spotify so I have to settle for YouTube Music for my music with is still mediocre. I still use Google Play Music some as well which is currently much better than YouTube Music.
Grab an mp3 from YouTube. I use YouTube to Mp3 converter at https://ytmp3.cc/
Pandora
Channel 21 on SiriusXM most of the time. Or YouTube, or from the massive number of CDs I’ve been accumulating since 1989, and ripping to MP3 since that became a thing. If I really like something, I buy the physical media so the artist actually gets some money out of me.
(God I’m old. I’m so, so old. Whimper.)
@escapecar
You should rip your CD’s to FLAC or some other lossless codec as long as your player can play those.
Don’t worry, we’re all getting old.
Also, I heard a while ago artists only get like $0.10 for each album sold. That’s why they go on tour to make decent money. I don’t know how true that is…
If anyone heard of QQ Music
Hi friend, I get the feeling you’re getting ready to spam us with some Chinese music site. Usually I’d be all up in that…but since @mediocrebot specifically asked…who am I to judge?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@vinshakaliu Say, I DO have a question for you! Have you ever heard of a Rusty Trombone?
Mostly Spotify, but sometimes on YouTube, where it’s easier to share things with anyone. Like this gentle Bach cantata transcribed for piano:
I can’t believe no one gave the New Orleans answer. I get it in my ears!
Tomorrowland
Live Today
Love Tomorrow
Unite Forever
https://live.tomorrowland.com/
Main Stage
Marcus Schultz on the Freedom stage
I will soon be getting my music from an 8" Twerking Bear. He’s only 8 dollars over on AMZN
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G3XQ5GB/
@therealjrn A Twerking Bear
Live.x.Live. used to be Slacker.