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

Thx lemmings

    • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      6 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·
        5 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
    141·
    6 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·
      6 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·
      6 days 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·
    6 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·
    6 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

  • miguel@fedia.io
    5·
    6 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.

  • CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 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·
      6 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
    5·
    6 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.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    4·
    6 days ago

    Mostly stuff I bought from Bandcamp. It’s drm free, but for convenience I usually let it stream from the app.

    I also have a bunch of mp3s from older purchases I listen to sometimes, but I don’t have a media server set up so that’s mostly limited to my desktop.

    Sometimes I’ll pull up a specific track on YouTube, but that’s mostly for “do you remember this song?” stuff. Adblock and the “resume playback from lock screen” make it bearable.

  • whaleross@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 days ago

    Tidal, though I’ve quit payments so when this month runs out I’ll switch to try out Qobuz. Before that I was on Spotify since it was invite-only until a few years ago when I had enough of the CEO Daniel Ek complete disrespect for artists that make him a billionaire. Before that I was sailing the seas for many years. Before that I bought CDs. Before that I bought LPs.

  • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    6 days ago

    I listen on Deezer. I know, streaming is awful for the musicians but otherwise I would just pirate songs + I freeload on my friends family plan.

    Currently I’m obsessing these artists:

    • Femtanyl (KATAMARI)
    • STOMACH BOOK (Fukouna Girl, Bambi)
    • Danny Brown (Copycats, The End)
    • FEM&M (Beep Beep Beep)
    • Joey & Valence (DROP!!, BUST DOWN)
      • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        6 days ago

        Yeah, I was also “blessed” with this info via that post. Unfortunately, my friend most likely isn’t that interested to change, since we also gave Tidal a go before Deezer because it’s cheaper and supports artists a bit more, but its music library lacked an immense amount of Japanese artists, which was unusable for all of us. Qobuz apparently has a small library too, which won’t work for my friend in practicality.

        With our criteria in the streaming business we are basically left off with Spotify or Deezer. Pick your poison situation.

        • xpey@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          I’m veeeery extremely biased because ILA ended up becoming our very first connection with my now partner, but I love it soo much. I relate to Amy a lot, and there are a lot of fun characters to explore (and cool ships aside from canon). According to my partner who knows ab this stuff more than I do, there are very little GL media with the kind of ending ILA has, so that’s a nice selling point I think.

          • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz
            2·
            5 days ago

            I was already sold by having an unique yandere twist + I haven’t read webtoons and it looks reallly cuteeee.

            I hope your partner will be the one. It sounds wholesome bonding over ILA :3

            • xpey@piefed.socialEnglish
              2·
              5 days ago

              Yess the artstyle is great I love it.

              And thank you, recently had my 1 year anniversary and things are looking amazing for us, I just know they’re the one <3