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

Thx lemmings

    • caurvo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      2 months 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.

    • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      2 months 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·
        2 months 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
    141·
    2 months 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·
      2 months 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·
      2 months ago

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

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    2 months 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
    9·
    2 months 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

  • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    2 months 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.

    • dimjim@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 months 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!

  • Sidyctism II.
    5·
    2 months ago

    Download via newpipe/ tubular, buy used CDs. I occasionally also use https://www.music-map.com/ to discover new artists.
    Dont really have a favorite artist, but im currently listening to a lot of irie revoltes just because i went to a concert of them semi-recently

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    2 months 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.