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.
Most of the music that I own is on CD. Some of it is purchased through iTunes. I discover music through a local alternative radio station. Sometimes I acquire music, for personal use, using youtube-dl.
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).
My family has an Apple Music family subscription so I use that subscription to listen to music. Either that or YouTube videos. But more often than not I listen on Apple Music.
Apple Music family subscription
I didn’t realize that this was a thing.
I mean my parents could just be paying for all of our Apple Music accounts but there’s also the family sharing thing they’ve (Apple) got going on
I mostly use YouTube to listen to music. Also, I use Soundcloud. If the song is on Bandcamp, I sometimes download the song and listen to it locally.
Depends on what I’m doing. I own a lot of music as mp3s and wavs because I DJ. I listen to a decent amount of DJs on twitch as well, if someone I enjoy is playing. Sometimes when I want something on in the background or if I’m driving somewhere I’ll just use spotify.
Check out Desert Heart Records if you aren’t already into them. When Lee Reynolds is on, its solid gold!
Seen Lee Reynolds a few times in person and plenty on twitch before he got their account banned, big fan of DHR. I actually sent the link about them hiring to a partner of mine who works in PR and she applied lol
ha nice! I stumbled upon their stuff by chance. He was doing a 20hr stream or something crazy… and I was hooked.
It’s youtube, soundcloud or I download from a bunch of sources. Yt or soundcloud download, one click hosters, stuff like that. Sometimes I use a free spotify account with adblock in the browser.
I use Foobar2000 on my HTPC and also the FB2K iOS app, which is great, but not perfect. Everything is FLAC (16/44 for the most part).
I also have Spotify, but I only really use it for alarms – mostly their mixes, which are pretty good for the most part.
How do you get the music to play it with Foobar? Any preferred services?
A mix of straight stealing via the main two trackers and also usenet or bandcamp – it depends on the band. With classic records I am picky when it comes to pressing, so bandcamp and other not-legal avenues aren’t always the best option.
The two trackers are great and its pretty easy to maintain a good ratio with a home connection. Usenet doesn’t have as much music, but its really nice since there’s no seeding or any of that ‘gotta keep it around’ business.