I’ve personally started buying music from Bandcamp and iTunes to have my own music collection outside of a music service and better support artists.
I’ve personally started buying music from Bandcamp and iTunes to have my own music collection outside of a music service and better support artists.
youtube is, and remains, my go-to for most music. i’ve never felt a need for spotify, i’m not in apple’s ecosystem, and unsurprisingly, you can still find pretty much anybody and anything on youtube–i have no shortage of stuff in my playlists with less than a thousand views, and some with even fewer views than that.
good example just scanning my list of music: Piry Reis - Limites. 439 views as of now, a not insubstantial number of which are because i’ve spread this particular song around!
I do stream from Youtube quite a bit but when I want to support an artist, I usually try to buy it in some fashion. Note that iTunes is usable on Windows so I wouldn’t really say it’s necessarily part of the Apple ecosystem in the way that term’s been used (Devices or software running and integrated only into other Apple products).