I know there’s already a few posts about how people listen to, or discover new music, but I wanted to see how other people get their music. Do you buy CDs or vinyl? Digital downloads? Use streaming services? Something else? And why?

Until a few years ago, I would jump between streaming services depending on the best deals I could get, but got very concerned the more I read about how little money most musicians get from streaming listens (especially via Spotify) - and given I tend to listen to less popular bands/artists, it seems particularly bad for them.

I have a small selection of CDs and vinyl, but mostly buy my music digitally - directly via Bandcamp if the artist is on there, or through an online store like 7digital (or even sometimes if no other option, Amazon) if not. I have a home server where I keep my music and like to be able to stream it directly to my phone, so this tends to be the best of both worlds for me.

Interested to know what others do!

  • anarchism@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    really like soulseek, and theres a great android app for it called seeker. you can sort by variables like quality, size, encoding, bitrate, etc.

    • jere344@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Soulseek is what I use to get more obscure titles that cannot be bought anymore and aren’t on spotify. It let anyone visit other people library of music, and some users share a lot.

      If you want to find more stuff on it you should try it on a pc and setting up port forwarding (I don’t know if it’s possible with the seeker app) as without it, you can only see the content from users who port forwarded themselves.

      I was a r/soulseek user, so I hope a soulseek sub will pop up somewhere here.

      • surrendertogravity@wayfarershaven.euEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Ohhhh, I knew port forwarding affected torrenting, but I didn’t think about how it would affect Soulseek. I’ll have to get that set up as it’s my primary music source since W.CD died.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I hadn’t heard of Soulseek before. I see it depends on some central servers though the file transfer is peer to peer. Do you need to take precautions with Soulseek as with Bittorrent to hide your IP address?

        • jere344@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Your ip is indeed public with soulseek. I’ve never heard of anyone having issues with that as soulseek is really unknown from the public but you can use a vpn to hide it.