What’s the deal? Are people just going to continue to pay a never-ending rising cost of streaming? Surely this model can’t keep up, and I highly doubt people are listening to essentially the diverse catalog of music for that price. I’m willing to bet most people listen to the equivalent of a couple CDs in a month.
Are you guys just gonna keep paying for YouTube music as the price tops to $30 a month? Seems like every week these clowns are raising their prices.
I steam it because ironing melts the vinyl.
It’s also the only cooking method that preserves nutrients in the groovy basslines
Do you only use Monster steamers? Gold plated to transfer the steam without losing the lower frequencies?
Monster uses Ultra Premium Distilled Hydrofluid in their steamers, and no other brand comes close. If you’re not using a Monster steamer, you are losing fidelity.
After steaming I compress the tracks into a purée with 192 kilograms of olive oil. Good omega-3kHz.
You heathen! Compression wreaks havoc on the mid-tones, even if it’s the Virgin cold press with no steaming!
ahem
It’s an Albany expression.
No, I am frying my music. It gives the sound a crispier edge.
You call them steamed jams despite the fact they are obviously grilled
Well, cooking your music leads to some nice results, too.
What seasonings?
SAULT, and Pepa
Red hot chilli peppers?
Steaming seems a bit too extreme… it might damage or peel off the labels, or even damage the discs themselves, depending on the temperature (and I don’t want to see what it’d do to tape!).
Personally I’ve always found a microfiber cloth to be sufficient.
Hah! I didn’t even notice the missing r, even after seeing the more recent saute joke from someone else. N1
I prefer mine broiled.
But I’ve also never paid for a music service.
Well… is suppose it is a good way to get the wrinkles out… I’ll give it a shot.
I am streaming my music, but from my own server at home.
What’s your preferred client? I switched from plexamp to fintunes, but I really hate the app and the lack of functionality.
Jellyfin + Symfonium is such a great experience
Jellyfin has pretty good Linux PC clients too. Even the main Jellyfin client works well for music.
Thanks!
I’ve been using mpd (Music Player Daemon), originally with icecast bc it didn’t have built-in http streaming, but it has for a long time now, 10+ years.
Plexamp. It does everything I want flawlessly, so I really have no desire to switch.
Seconded on Plexamp; there is no other streaming client that will let you play your own music that’s close.
Yeah, I just switched to Jellyfin because of the Plex updates to their accounts, but I miss Plexamp. I considered running both Jellyfin and Plex just for plexamp, but I’m wary that they might eventually paywall remote audio streaming, too.
Oh, I didn’t even realise music was exempt from those changes. I’m sure glad I got the lifetime pass when it was cheap.
I buy my music for download on Bandcamp, Steam and few other places. I listen to it with Jellyfin and Finamp on my mobile (it can store songs locally or stream them from my home NAS)
This is the way
I’ve never paid for a streaming service. All my music is on my local device.
I prefer it poached or grilled, but I’ll accept steamed
Deep fried for me. Yes my cholesterol doesn’t like it, but eh…
You call it steamed music, despite the fact that it is obviously grilled.
Streaming music never appealed to me. 1TB sd card in my phone with my library synced to it.
Big benefit to me is discovering new artists and songs. Without that, I’d be missing a Lot of amazing stuff.
I wish companies would go back to putting SD card slots in all the phones again
Same! Although still on my 512GB SD card but I’ll have to upgrade to 1TB soon at this rate lol
Also thank goodness 2TB SD cards came onto market not long ago, I’ll not run out of options anytime soon lol
In order of preference:
- buy flac directly from the label
- buy flac on Bandcamp (or equivalent, although i’m barely aware of any real alternatives)
- buy CD and rip it to flac
- despair
- try to fight it
- give up and get it via torrent.
Streaming services are evil and i wish for them to fail.…but more seriously – I get why streaming services exist. Although I will almost certainly will never use one in my life, in principle it’s fine, I get the point. When I’m online I’m actually OK to stream from an indie radio (eg. soma.fm) or from a RSS based podcast player (eg. Antenna).The problem i have is that, AFAIK, the business models are almost always abusive and hostile to both user and the artist. Some kind of federated system could work better, but I’m not sure it’s doable. As it is, I’m afraid this middle man model just won’t ever work properly without heavy regulation – which is kind of a problem in the globalized world.
This is basically my strategy too. Though, I tend to buy from Bandcamp first and foremost. I like that most of the time if I buy physical media (either vinyl or CD) on Bandcamp it comes with a digital download.
I was disappointed that Bandcamp was bought by a company a few years back, but nothing has changed… Yet.
This person has hit the nail on the head. Own the music.
Too bad we can’t really do that with movies & series. Cinema aside, I basically start at step 4.
I never had a spotify anccount and I’m still listening to the music I collected 20 years ago.
I have a Spotify account, formerly a Tidal account, briefly a Deezer account and I’m still listening to music I collected 25 years ago, I’m also listening to an absolute ton of new music I would never have found without Spotify,
If I was better financially I would support artists more directly, but the service is good (For my purposes)
Some bands I have found through Spotify,
Ancients.
Kanaan.
Slomosa.
Reign Wolf.
Tiger Cub.
Harold’s Last Chance.
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers.
Ghost.
Lüt.
Sludge Mother.
Pist Idiots.
Velvet Two Stripes.
Goodbye June.
Be’lakor.
Green Leaf.
Psychedelic Witchcraft.
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets.
Spirit Box.
Kira Mac.
The Ocean.
Whitechapel.
Gazoline.
And many more
My collection of records, cassettes and CDs have come out of storage and I started buying new ones. I might even start making mix tapes again.
I might even start making mix tapes again.
This is when having a high-end 1989 Technics cassette deck in your 1986 VW Jetta Carat comes in really handy.
I stream but from my own server.
I don’t, I just play the thousands of mp3s I’ve collected over the years.
