Streaming? CDs ? Cassettes? Reels? USB sticks? Mp3? Flac? Legal/illegal/Grauzone? What’s your favorite band? Why?
Thx lemmings
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.
Sounds like your head is filled with music. (don’t ask me why but Dropkick Murphys and The Real McKenzies are inextricably linked in my head [edit: probably because I keep mispelling Murphys])
It is, and the Real McKenzies are awesome. See also Flogging Molly.
I have a big collection of Creative Commons songs. And I wrote a little web music player to stream from my home-server, which I use for listening when I’m working from home, since I didn’t want to install a music player on my work laptop…
Records, cds, bandcamp, nas, some reels of old stuff (expensive now but so much fun), internet archive.
My reel of S&G is one of the best sounding things ive heard as far as depth and realism. A lot of newer stuff lacks that and is fatigue inducing (and brickwalled) so I have to look hard for good music today.
A few cassettes but apart from the fun of them, the sound is of course awful. Im a realistic audiophile but cassettes dont and cannot sound good lol
Favorite band/group…id be here all day discussing that.
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.
Always FLAC, I have 2 DAPs, Sony walkman and Hiby, Hiby is better, I rip my CDs and put the FLAC files in my DAPs, I also use streaming through qobuz when I’m in my laptop.
I love local media, especially vinyl, cassettes, and CDs. When they’re not available, however, I’ll listen to Sirius (Lithium!) or YTM or my local library of mp3s.
Local media from PC with headphones usually. Otherwise from my phone in my car from local media or my DAP with headphones.
Usually with my ears.
No streaming. DAP loaded with mp3/flac/m4a/opus from ripped CDs and downloads then I make a few playlists or set random play on the while library.
A mix between MP3s, FLACs, and streaming through FOSS frontends to YouTube Music.
I’ve been collecting vinyl for close to 20 years now. I didn’t mean to but bands and labels were just trying to get rid of them in the mid 2000s so I got a dozen or so free records when preordering CDs. About half of them were not on any other format at the time so I got a record player.
So I mostly listen on that when at home or use volumio as a multi room playback system to stream off qobuz or from a local library on my NAS. I did get into cassettes during the pandemic and do find them rather entertaining.
Favorite band is easy, its Guided by Voices. As for why I can’t really say except that they rock. You have to be able to see the brilliant uncut pop gems through the lofi tape hiss. Pretty much all their best stuff sounds like a first take demo tape.
Setup: Tidal through USB Audio Player on my Samsung Galaxy S23 with an Audioquest DragonFly Cobalt DAC and Sennheiser IE 900 headphones.
Why: because I can taste the sound in my mouth
Some favorites: Erutan, Diana Panton, The Ink Spots, The 8-Bit Big Band, Dir en grey, Eluveitie, Aimer, Paramore, Shiina Ringo, Tokyo Jihen, Yorushika
FM radio.
To be honest, I mostly don’t listen to music. I do have a subscription to Spotify but I don’t really use it. I’m not cancelling it because I’m on a Duo plan with my dad and he uses it a lot, really getting his money’s worth.
So the only time I do listen to music is while driving, and then I just turn on the radio. (I also don’t drive very often, I mostly use public transport.)
Recently bought a DAP (Digital Audio Player) and started downloading to distance myself from Spotify’s increasingly intrusive push of AI-riddled music and podcasts. Large commercial artists are torrented, while smaller bands’ music off of bandcamp and qobuz.
I still have my Spotify account to reference songs that I’ve bookmarked, but since I ended my subscription I no longer use it frequently enough to discover new music as I detest ads. Now I discover new music throughs combination of falling down youtube rabbit holes, and browsing various lemmy communities, /c/eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online (I forget how to link communities. I’m also considering checking out last.fm and other music services like that.
Bands I’ve been enjoying lately:
I’m also looking forward to purchasing the new Paper Kites album when it releases in January. :)
Streaming. Mostly YouTube music, some Bandcamp, all legal. Headphones at work, speakers at home. Favorites are many, old and new music, last couple of years it’s been Fontaines DC I think, they are just so good, sitting at the intersection of rock & punk & melodic with such awesomely poetic lyrics and the underlying thread of despair of all Irish music.
