I’m in a dilemma, I think ownership of media is important, but the convenience of Spotify and the algorithm of new music that it suggests has helped me find amazing artists that I wouldn’t have heard of otherwise.
Fellow sailors, what are your thoughts, and how do you personally listen to music?
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Local library. I don’t want to pay for things I don’t own. Streaming services also can remove/ disable music any time. I also don’t need recommendation algorithms I think they are biased. I can easily discover new artists on blogs
Nice! Any suggestions on what blogs I should go to for some recommendations?
Maybe its a generational thing but I prefer having a Plex / Plexamp serveur with all my music as FLAC on my home server. I can better curate my collection and it’s available everywhere.
Plexamp is awesome, and the UI/UX is gorgeous in my opinion!
I have Ampache running on a self hosted server, which has desktop and mobile apps.
I don’t know why you were down voted but thanks for this. I’m doing some research on it now. So here take this upvote
I have Apple One Family and that includes Apple Music, which I share with 5 others. Can’t beat that price!
I have tried heaphones and lidarr e.t.c but for music I still use Spotify, unless you are subscribed to some pretty good music trackers it’s not worth it imo
I have a Spotify (family) subscription, but it’s mainly for the others in my household. I’m a big believer in having a local media library and local ownership (legally acquired or otherwise) - I don’t like the idea of content you’re paying for disappearing due to licensing issues or other BS (perhaps it’s not as big of an issue with services like Spotify, but video streaming is a huge mess).
Streaming for discovery, private tracker to get it in FLAC.
I agree with OP that it is best to have DRM free files. For music recommendations, I use a Scrobber plugin for Last.fm.
Mixing and matching is the best option, mostly.
I like to have my personal favorite albums and non-streaming albums in my drive, but if i download something new, most of the time it will just stay there and i’ll never listen to it.
Streaming is wayyy better for discovering music (and also not making your hard drive full). If for every album you want to listen to you need to download, it sometimes lets you out of great music because of simple lazyness lol
Spotify to find artists
Plex/VLC/winamp to continue listening after discovering them.
I stream because I like discovering new artists that I don’t know about. Otherwise keeping everything on a drive is probably better considering that you have full control over it.
