What’s the deal? Are people just going to continue to pay a never-ending rising cost of streaming? Surely this model can’t keep up, and I highly doubt people are listening to essentially the diverse catalog of music for that price. I’m willing to bet most people listen to the equivalent of a couple CDs in a month.
Are you guys just gonna keep paying for YouTube music as the price tops to $30 a month? Seems like every week these clowns are raising their prices.
I stream but from my own server.
I’ve got a collection curated over the last 15 years by my partner with over 40k tracks. I can shuffle and it will play for over 3 months without a repeat.
Just like broccoli.
I never did. I never liked streamimg music that demamds constant internet connection, ads in between, and unability to skip forward unless you’re subscribed.
Probably.
Streaming services are very useful and a good model in general. Unfortunately, the leading companies do not yet sufficiently understand how to distribute the monetary gains properly.
For some reason, people still think having a big number on your bank account is a good thing. Money should stream as well.
Kinda like that other guy, once I ripped my cd collection to digital, just didn’t even get into streaming.
Still make mixtapes the old fashioned way for my partner (corny lol I know) and I buy the occasional remaster at a local thrift shop, or the old baked out hippie running a music / instrument shop.
It’s an honest joy.
Get a load of this guy. He still listens to music. 😏
I’ve been buying and ripping CDs since 2007. I average 8 per year, and it limits my music discovery speed a fair bit - but that’s OK.
When someone suggests a new song/band, I listen on YouTube/Vevo, and put up with the ad. It’s fine. It convinces me whether I want to buy their CD or not most of the time.
You’re still streaming music?
Me who pirates all his music:
I have a bunch of stuff DRM-free and ripped from CDs I’ve bought. I’ve been against drm for a while, just takes practice to maintain the habit
I use bandcamp and buy cheesy jazz records.
I feel like streaming music isn’t that expensive. Wasn’t music like $1-1.3 before streaming services? If you listen to one new album a month you’ve basically broken even. Tv streaming is a different story
I don’t, I just play the thousands of mp3s I’ve collected over the years.
I’m streaming, but not paying monthly for it. Look into self hosting. Jellyfin, Navidrome or Plex. The first two are free and open source, but don’t have remote access built in.
All my music lives in a folder called music that gets synced to all my devices.
Don’t ask me how I sync the folder across all my devices though
