id42928110
Barfly
...little girls in sailor suits
Posts: 220
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Post by id42928110 on Apr 14, 2024 17:14:06 GMT -5
So where do people go to buy music nowadays? Is it basically iTunes? I have never liked streaming services. Whether it's movies, tv shows, or music, I hate having something I enjoy getting removed.
Also, is everything a download now? Seems a lot of stuff is no longer available as CDs and anyone who has something out of print is price gouging.
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Post by fantasiawht on Apr 15, 2024 7:16:27 GMT -5
I'm happy with streaming services. I use Apple Music because it's the easiest to integrate with my existing huge digital music collection.
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Post by Tig on Apr 15, 2024 8:01:54 GMT -5
Spotify is my music source now. CDs turn yellow and die. Buying downloads is fine but sometimes you lost your purchase. I like Spotify because they have entire albums you can stream. I listen to music several hours a day so it's worth it for me.
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Post by WickedCrustacean on Apr 15, 2024 10:14:10 GMT -5
Yeah, I use Spotify and Youtube mostly. Spotify on the phone, youtube on the computer.
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Post by Mako on Apr 15, 2024 15:50:56 GMT -5
I've got a CD collection still, but have ripped most of the songs into MP3's on my PC and use MusicBee to play them on it. Hard to find CDs anymore, though, as most stores have dropped them and those that do have them it tends to not be ones I want.
I do also use YouTube Music mostly on both my PC and phone for music I haven't bought, but have Pandora and Spotify on my phone, too. Very rarely use those. Just use the free versions so have to deal with the ads.
So pretty much MusicBee for music I already own, and YouTube for what I don't.
It's like with video games: I really prefer to have a physical copy to actually hold in my hands, but have had to adjust to the times and going digital with newer stuff.
Oh, and I miss the radio. There just aren't any real good radio stations around me anymore that consistently plays the music I like. Used to have a modern alternative that played the heavier stuff, but that's gone now. Only two "classic rock" stations that play everything from the 60's through early 2000's. Owned by the same company, which is strange they didn't make one 60's through 80's, and the other 90's and 2000's, or something, but whatever. I only listen when I'm in the car, which isn't much. So I get most of my music on my PC (or phone).
Seems to be going this way for movies, too. We've got a huge DVD collection, and smaller Blu-Ray, but now with streaming services even Redbox looks like it may be following Blockbuster to the graveyard of things gone by. May be next to impossible to find DVD's/Blu-Ray's before long.
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Post by Tig on Apr 15, 2024 20:36:20 GMT -5
I live near Austin, the "Live Music Capital of the World", which is absolute BS. The mainstream radio is mostly run by Emmis Entertainment, and, for some reason, they think having your DJs run their mouths for hours with only an occasional song is entertaining. The "morning shows" on multiple stations play zero music, then they do another talking segment around lunch. The oldies station, the alt rock station, the pop station, they all suck. The country music stations are a little better but country music blows goat so it's not worth it. Then these idiots wonder why everyone moved to streaming.
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Post by WickedCrustacean on Apr 17, 2024 13:43:55 GMT -5
When I am playing games that don't have important sound effects/music (e.g. roguelikes, Battle Brothers, Terraria, etc), I will just hit up youtube and listen to decade hit mixes, like the ones below:
No annoying radio djs, no commercials (yet), just hours and hours of great music.
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Post by Mako on Apr 17, 2024 16:56:57 GMT -5
Yeah, that's the nice thing about YouTube Music on your PC, is that ad blockers block out most of the annoying ads.
Plus I sometimes use decent surround sound headphones and have decent speakers. (Nothing like I used to - my old ones were 5.1 THX and friggin' rocked, could turn those suckers up! Now I just have 2.1 speakers. Saw some reviews years later that they were considered one of the best deals for speakers ever, which isn't bad considering they were through Dell. Sadly when I built my last PC the huge subwoofer popped and started smoking, so had to get rid of them and switch to the ones I'm using now. Someday I might need to upgrade them to a better set again, but for now these work.)
On a phone they don't block the ads. If you use the YouTube Music app, at least. Plus I don't have headphones that works with the phone, just a little Bluetooth speaker my brother gave me for my birthday this last year. So I can at least sometimes use it when I'm working out in the yard.
You can always pay for the YouTube subscription to get rid of the ads, but I don't listen enough to warrant that. I do take advantage of the free trials they offer every so often, though.
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Post by PegLegPete on Apr 19, 2024 22:47:50 GMT -5
I think I've had them all, pandora, itunes, amazon music and by far hands down Spotify is the best. Nothing else works offline (big issue for me out at sea), spotify has everything I can think of and you can download your playlists and such, I do tons of podcasts and music and now even audiobooks from them and have absolutely nothing but praise for it. Everything else expires, needs signal, doesn't have something I want or you can't download it. Shawn Ryan, Joe Rogan, Dan Carlin, MrBallen...all my podcasters are on spotify so I'm super happy with it.
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Post by Tig on Apr 22, 2024 5:37:32 GMT -5
Hey Peg, if you like podcasts, Stay Zero on Spotify is really good. It's from the guys at the Zero Foxtrot tshirt company that are Marine veterans here in Austin. They talk spec ops and military life and stuff. Two episodes got me to Houston and back. Good stuff.
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