Music

spotify, believe it or not. for the genres of music that i nose around in it has an amazing catalog, i can listen all thru the house thanks to alexa, and i can favourite or skip a track with voice commands. i pay for the premium version because i hate ads and also because i want to listen to music at higher quality than 192kbps

shazam is one click away from being opened after i unlock my phone at any point. holy shit that's been a good resource when i'm out somewhere and hear something i like.

after that, however, i spend a lot of time on bandcamp hunting for obscure and decent sounding remixes of popular songs. THAT's what i dump on a dancefloor full of hippies. if you get the girls dancing then the boys dance with them and with charismatic music you can turn it into a party instead of just a bunch of people dancing to music

oh, and when you're listening to music that you're thinking about DJing with, you absolutely utterly NEED an enormous subwoofer and a surround sound hifi so you can hear it the way it's supposed to sound

i go about 50/50 between CD and bandcamp. I never got into vinyl, though i can appreciate the physicality of it. That being said, i do listen to a fair amount of stuff on youtube or spotify, especially when exploring new artists but also for stuff that i just haven't bought

Mostly Spotify these days. But I do still get cds (and some vinyl) from artists I really like.

I like to discovery tunes through friends and suches, and services like TIDAL. I started collecting vinyl earlier this year and just playing an entire album front to back is amazing, takes me back. Also didn't realize how much I miss how "older" mixing used to sound ...more dynamic not all compressed into a brick. I really admire Vinyl for that. It's also fun to collect which doesn't hurt ... Thinking of working on my CD collection again. As for digital archival, I use FLAC for "backing up" my vinyl, and when aquiring new I like bandcamp or any service that offers FLAC in highres.

I started going mostly digital about a decade ago. I had moved overseas and so my space was limited. After the initial move, I was constantly moving, so buying physical copies just didn't make sense, especially when I had different regions to contend with.

Admittedly I go straight to one of the streaming services, but for smaller bands I like who are on bandcamp, I’ll use that to buy their stuff and throw it on my plex/jellyfin. I am also trying to cultivate a local music library again after finding my iTunes library from 2006 lol.

I still buy CDs. I have a quite large CD collection. It's large enough that I've had to buy multiple pieces of furniture to accommodate it. For me, there's a particular romance with listening to the disc that first time, in order, and while flipping through the liner notes. After that, I'll listen to it in the car or at work for a few weeks, taking note of which songs to record into my mp3 playlist. Eventually, I'll record any songs I want in my home playlist and shelf the CD with the others so that no harm comes to it.

• I have a collection of music I purchased back in the iTunes days, or ripped from physical CDs
• When I really like an album, I buy it on Bandcamp to support the artist
• For everything else, there's YouTube Music

I'm mostly on Tidal. I like the higher quality and the increased pay-out options. If I really like the music, I'll either buy it on vinyl or Bandcamp, especially if it's a smaller artist