CD’s at Thrift Stores.

Seeker for everything else.

Large commercial Artists Music is downloaded illegally in various ways. Smaller Artists Music I buy via Bandcamp, Quboz or wherever else they offer it.

All Music is stored as Mp3 and Flac in a Filen Cloud from where I pull selected Titels and Albums onto my phone and into a Musicolet Playlist.

Current musical obession: Turkish Psychedelic Jazz

I generally use my ears to listen to music.

Seriously though, between Orpheus, Soulseek, and Bancamp I have a large library and I paid for a Plex pass years ago, so I use Plexamp on mobile and PC. Pretty pleased with it, and it even has scrobbling support for last.fm and support in Maloja+Multi-scrobbler.

Cassettes! And bandcamp

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.

I download the song once using yt-dlp, then I use Musicbrainz Picard to fetch song metadata like author, cover, title, year etc… Then I listen 100% offline in any mp3 player app.

I send my songs encrypted to pCloud free tier (gpg) just to keep a backup somewhere else.

In other words, not a single online service on earth know what I’m listening to.

Streaming mostly, with a little vinyl now and then. A little bit of radio but even that’s usually streaming over the internet.

Actually, now that I think of it I have a tape I need to run through another tape player to confirm whether the tape is broken, or my tape player is. Bought a Sons of Butcher demo with tracks I haven’t seen elsewhere yet (have heard live) at a show a while back, played successfully once and now it doesn’t. But I only have one of those kinda shitty vinyl+tape+aux+radio+bluetooth players you see on Amazon around christmas, so it’s even odds which is busted.

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.

A mix between MP3s, FLACs, and streaming through FOSS frontends to YouTube Music.

Apple Music. If I like it I’ll buy it from places like bandcamp, or acquire it if I can’t buy it.

With my ears

A mixture of hard-drive storage and streaming.

Tidal, though I’ve quit payments so when this month runs out I’ll switch to try out Qobuz. Before that I was on Spotify since it was invite-only until a few years ago when I had enough of the CEO Daniel Ek complete disrespect for artists that make him a billionaire. Before that I was sailing the seas for many years. Before that I bought CDs. Before that I bought LPs.

I listen on Deezer. I know, streaming is awful for the musicians but otherwise I would just pirate songs + I freeload on my friends family plan.

Currently I’m obsessing these artists:

• Femtanyl (KATAMARI)
• STOMACH BOOK (Fukouna Girl, Bambi)
• Danny Brown (Copycats, The End)
• FEM&M (Beep Beep Beep)
• Joey & Valence (DROP!!, BUST DOWN)

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. :)