Streaming? CDs ? Cassettes? Reels? USB sticks? Mp3? Flac? Legal/illegal/Grauzone? What’s your favorite band? Why?

Thx lemmings

    • caurvo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      4 days ago

      Amen. On my phone for now, juggling storage space for flac files.

      I’m hanging on for Fiio/ Snowsky to release the next version of the Echo Mini, which I’m crossing my fingers for metal body and removable battery.

  • myrmidex
    15·
    4 days ago

    flac files + navidrome + tempo app on mobile / supersonic on desktop

    • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      Also I think downloading music from youtube violates their ToS (or sth)

      So tech-savvy users should definitely avoid writting a script that uses exportify and yt-dlp to populate their local library

      • matsdis@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Yes. Tech-savvy users should not run a script like the one below from extensions like open-with or similar. Be it on youtube or other music sites.

        #!/bin/sh
yt-dlp --extract-audio --embed-metadata --no-playlist \
    --exec 'notify-send "download finished."' \
    -o ~/music/new/"%(album_artist)s - %(artist)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" \
    -f"bestaudio[ext!=flac][ext!=wav]"\
    -- "$1"
  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    13·
    4 days ago

    Used Spotify until recently, but cancelled my premium subscription after the recent price hike as well as the increasingly prevalent AI content. I’m now trying to build a local library of mp3 files. Not sure if I won’t resubscribe to Spotify at some point though, as I find music dicovery quite difficult without it.

    • xpey@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      idk if ListenBrainz has this, but I know for a fact that lastfm has a big discovery function. You can import your spotify listen history and start scrobbling from there, and you’re bound to find new artists!

    • Crash@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 days ago

      Yeah I really hope I can stay off of Spotify but I also could see myself unfortunately going back at some point :(

  • miguel@fedia.io
    7·
    4 days ago

    A mix of digital (bandcamp/7digital/pulled from CD - 1,132 albums currently) and physical media like records and CDs. Most of it from my ipod or from my computer which is hooked up to my hifi.

    Favorite this month? Lots of Dropkick Murphys, Anciients, and Illumina A.D.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • ambitious_bones@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 days ago

    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

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world
    7·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • dimjim@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      4 days ago

      You might already know this, but yt-dlp has a flag (I believe its --embed-metadata) that will take the album cover, artist/album, etc. and embed it into the mp3. Obviously not as comprehensive as Picard, but might be useful for you!

  • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    Vinyl and cds. Mostly vinyl. I do stream albums I consider buying in physical form, just to check out if the expense is worth it to me.