Music

I use spotify for most of my listening, but I also buy a lot from bandcamp (digitally). I keep my purchases downloaded on my home server and on my phone for offline use.

mostly listen via youtube, sometimes buy music via bandcamp, but usually not downloading nor listening via it, it is just an act of reward and encouragement.

i have a several vinyls and a cd, that i cannot get rid of, because the artist does not sell his music anymore. (but i have no way to play it).

I usually download my FLACs from Bandcamp or Deezer. Sometimes I rip them from CD when I can't find an album anywhere else.

I stream them from Jellyfin afterwards.

I actually use archive.org for a lot of live concert recordings. bands like the Grateful Dead and Phish have been allowing/sort of encouraging fans to record and freely share their concerts for a long time and it’s all just out there to listen to and download as much as you want. there’s also the official streaming services like nugs.net and LivePhish for higher quality professionally recorded concerts, the subscription is kind of pricey but I think the artists get a better cut than on regular streaming services.

other than that I do use Spotify a bit and try to buy stuff on Bandcamp to support the artists when I can.

Soulseek (with the nicotine+ client) is pretty good

Spotify for finding new music and most of my listening.

I'll buy vinyl for my favorite albums or if I see something at the record store that takes my fancy.

I'll usually listen to my records while cooking or if I want to just sit and listen as a primary activity

I buy CDs and rip them.

I refuse to stream because of the possibility of services shutting down and losing all the music you "purchased" (never mind needing an internet connection), and the sorts of copy protection and other things I've encountered when purchasing digital music turned me off of the whole thing years ago. Now I have all of my music on my phone, on my computer, and a physical backup too.

Plus, you can sometimes find CDs cheap at garage sales and thrift stores so there's a fun treasure hunt aspect there too.

Bandcamp and very rarely SLSK.

Independent artists: buy physically in person or online, or digital from bandcamp.

Mainstream or in affordable stuff: rip flacs from deezer

Bootlegs/live stuff: archive.org

Everything on a self hosted airsonic instance

I buy mostly digital mp3 and FLACs from BandCamp, the band's website, or Amazon, expect for Band-Maid, which I buy the CDs for. I don't stream.

I also borrow from the library and rip CDs from there to add to my digital collection. Thankfully, my library system has a great selection of CDs and gets music from bands from like The Pretty Reckless and Sabaton. The library also has stuff that hasn't made it to digital or is hard to find like some live Jimi Hendrix.

Use the library to expand your music collection. You can find a lot there. You just have to look.

When I find a song, I like to keep it. Streaming cant do that. You can create playlists of course, but they may at any time silently remove or replace that song. You dont know suffering until you've heard a bad cover of Hotel California.

Now I only buy mp3s. Mostly from 7digital.com or Bandcamp. Amazon dont sell music to Norwegians somewhy. The last album I bought I finally had to download iTunes because thats the only place except for Amazon they released. The app wasnt as intrusive and DRM enforcing anymore as it used to be a long time ago. So I might use iTunes a bit more now. (Yeah, I tend to hold a grudge against software companies for a LONG time. You hear that, reddit!)

Got all my mp3s (23 GB) stored on Onedrive, and use CloudPlayer on android to stream it wherever.

Apple Music has become my main 'first stop' after Spotify's latest UX overhaul. I've also started buying physical CDs again because I've realized the importance of physical copies. Never got into vinyl but I think the CD boom is still to come, ha.

yt-dlp from yt, SoundCloud etc. Download from Bandcamp, Spotify free. Basically I use everything where the music lives and then download it.

I have some vinyl and pick up more occasionally from yard sales or thrift shops.

I'm really big on using a YouTube converter to MP3. I try to find HD/HQ versions of songs I want and then pick highest conversion rate.

I buy mostly from bandcamp and Amazon.

I use Plex to host my music. It's not super difficult to set up. And Plexamp is a pretty good player.

Plex also has the option for you to subscribe to Tidal, which I do. And the ability to stream my own music that's not available anywhere on any stream plus almost everything out there that Spotify has is the best combo.

Jellyfin is another server like Plex, but I haven't ever set it up so I don't know how involved it is.

I use Apple music. It may not have all the indie artists of Bandcamp or whatever, but it’s super convenient, it has all the music I need, and it works so smoothly within the Apple ecosystem. Every device I have can share my account and pickup where another device left off. Plus the family account works great where everyone in my family can have their own account while there’s only one payment per month.

Mostly Pandora for music discovery with some occasional Spotify mixed in

yt-dlp to download a few favorites to listen to in car via phone

Spotify, buy god that app is getting worse every day. Thinking of switching to something else

A private torrent tracker and sometimes I buy vinyl.

I buy my music on BandCamp when I can and physical when I can. I prefer to buy albums on CD, other than Dungeon Synth music (which I prefer to buy on cassette for the sake of consistency). I do also own a number of albums on vinyl and/or cassette, most of the time because it is the only format I can get a physical copy in.

Same for me, first Bandcamp then 7digital. When neither have what I’m looking for, I’ll check on Discogs for a used CD.

Just Spotify and my pre-spotify (yarr) collection.

I'm interested in vinyl, but I don't have space for it ATM.

As someone who is Powerfully Middle Aged and the owner of several iPods, I have a tendency to buy used CDs from charity shops for next to nothing. If it's not something I'm keen on buying, but want to check out, I have Apple Music.

I'm also known to take the high seas on the odd occasion...

I prefer to buy and download my music. I buy a ton from bandcamp. For music that I cannot buy I might sail the high seas. I do own a few vinyls but those are of my favorite albums.

really like soulseek, and theres a great android app for it called seeker. you can sort by variables like quality, size, encoding, bitrate, etc.

Apple music is my main, checking out their classical app currently as well. They've got a decent selection, I was a big fan of Google play music back when that was available.

if i want to own something, vinyl. only exception it an NF CD i got because it was cheap and signed

aside from that, spotify

I have a Deezer Hifi sub and mostly download FLACs from there to play in Plexamp (which imo is among the best music players out there). Last.fm for discovery, sometimes I'll scroll through and go check out recommended artists on Spotify, and download through Deezer if I like them.

i do buy physical albums by kpop artists i really like. otherwise i purchase digitally (bandcamp if they're there) or pirate. i like not having to worry about my music being pulled off of streaming services or how those services handle privacy. the only downside for me is missing out when everyone shares their yearly streaming wrap-ups lol

I have a large vinyl record collection. I think I got the bug for it all from my Dad!

But for digital, I just use Newpipe. Every playlist, full album etc works just perfectly through it, ad free.

I probably obtain music in just about every conceivable way possible. Sometimes I'm listening on YouTube for city pop uploads, other times it's SoundCloud for weird obscure indie tracks. Sometimes I'll do some soul seeking to flesh out my local collection of FLACs for my iPod or Strawberry, or I'll pop into Bandcamp to find hidden gems. I also buy a fair bit of used vinyl from Discogs, and I'll occasionally hit up importCDs for the occasional budget-friendly Tatsuro Yamashita album. I even hunt around at local thrift stores to add to my cassette and CD collections, which have both grown to a fairly substantial size. Sometimes indie labels like Light in the Attic will get city pop reissues that aren't all that expensive, and I've bought a passable quality cassette from them before. I've been working on getting a thrown-together component Hi-fi setup from a bunch of thrift store scores, and it actually sounds and works quite well. I have a massive stack of portable CD players, and a trusty cassette walkman that has really decent W+F for what it is. Aside from MD (so far), I guess you could say I'm interested in diversifying my music-listening portfolio.

CD's, Beatport, Beatsource, iTunes. Sometimes there are only tracks and albums only available digitally.

Torrents, Soundcloud Downloader with subscription and YT Music.

Radio, believe me or not. I try to fish on some indie radios. Also, through podcast or YT: I like when they tell you the story or meaning or help you understand in any way. It helps me enjoy music. Then is easy to pull the threat to jump from one artist to the next.

Then I buy CD on their official website, but don't really listen to them.

I use Spotify and Amazon Music for most things, with occasional excursions to Bandcamp and YouTube. If I really like something I'll buy an LP or a download. Spotify gives good recommendations but it tends to lock you into things that are very much the same as what you've already been listening to, and after a while you realize your musical world has become very small. So sometimes I go to everynoise.com for a different way to navigate the Spotify catalogue, and hop around genres until I find something interesting, then back to Spotify to listen around. And I perform classical music so that helps with discovery, and if there's a festival in town I'll go and listen to random bands.

I buy it digitally via Qobuz or Bandcamp. I then put it in my nextcloud. That way I can stream it to my phone.

Free spotify with ad blocking , newpipe mostly.

I use Spotify for its convenience and music discovery capabilities. If I particularly like an artist, I'll buy their stuff on vinyl (if available) or I'll buy some merch.

I also support my favourite artist directly on Patreon.