spotify

its unfeasable to use anything else as i have a vast catologue

For algorithmic discovery, I use Spotube with the Listenbrainz library backend using their discover playlists. Sometimes I listen to playlists associated with communities I’m in, which are on Spotify so I also use Spotube. For offline listening I use Qobuz, although their DRM has broken it occasionally when I needed it so I want to switch that to Spotube as well once they improve their offline functionality and fix related bugs, or set up Navidrome.

I download from soulseek, then put it in iTunes Apple Music and sync it to my phone

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.

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.

Usually with my ears.

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…

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.

Files downloaded from Soulseek and Bandcamp. Supplemented by Metrolist.

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.

A mix between MP3s, FLACs, and streaming through FOSS frontends to YouTube Music.

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

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.

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.