how do you get your music?

I've been a google music subscriber for ages, but only realised you get six months free with a galaxy s6, so not paying anything at the minute

If the rumors are true about Spotify matching apple on it's family package I may jump ship
 
Spotify Premium here.

Love it, all the songs I like, and with the new updates it's fun to find new stuff.

Not tried the new running feature as I'm too lazy to do running to see if it works.
 
My vinyl collection.

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Two ways:

1) Buy CDs when they're cheap, rip to ALAC, store on music server. Tend to use the magic of the internet to get things like Japanese bonus tracks or rips of a vinyl version of an album if the mastering was superior (assuming I'm aware it exists).

2) Apple Music

The first one tends to be for when I know what I want to listen to, be it an artist or album, the second when I feel like hearing/discovering something new or just want something on in the background. Anything I like I tend to then get via the first option as I like having my own collection.
 
bitslice said:
I bought everything I ever needed in the 80's :)


Actually now I just listen to youtube when I find something new I like.




You need one of them old fangled record players mate...
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Yeah i sold the technics to fund somethings else, not to worry all in hand another set coming.
 
Bought some CD's here and there, but like most people I started to just torrent most of my collection as ripping countless CD's is quite boring and time consuming. But of course you suffer in the fact that there's no quality control when downloading some random album off the internet. One may be fine, the next may have a bunch of seeders for whatever reason, but is awful quality. Have now started using Spotify, just so easy to manage and of course the wide selection of content available instantly is great. Only a few thing I have found (King Crimson is one of them, unfortunately), but for the most part it's great.

I also use Last.fm sometimes, but has become a bit redundant considering Spotify basically does everything I need already.
 
I have a old JVC automatic turntable and some second hand records I have skip...from reading online the tone arm isnt putting enough pressure down on the record?

Will try putting some blutack on the end like someone said.
 
Eames said:
I have a old JVC automatic turntable and some second hand records I have skip...from reading online the tone arm isnt putting enough pressure down on the record?

Will try putting some blutack on the end like someone said.
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Does your tone arm not have a weight on the end (dial with a load of numbers on it)?
 
Winky_The_Winking_Turtle said:
But of course you suffer in the fact that there's no quality control when downloading some random album off the internet. One may be fine, the next may have a bunch of seeders for whatever reason, but is awful quality.
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Ah, well, you obviously aren't looking hard enough. I can torrent just about any album I want in FLAC. I just don't generally, as I generally just buy it and rip it myself.
 
Now this question was asked a while back, some people mentioned they used www.mp3million.com . Now, I've used it since then, and even though I'm sure it's a legal site, I bought an album that was a blatant rip from YouTube.

But I do get spotify free with my mobile contract and I've got the free iTunes music for now. But I mostly use spotify now days.
 
Torrents, i would use spotify but the lack of an eq is irritating. just need an extra 2-3db boost in sub 100hz range.
 
a mixture of discovering music on; youtube, soundcloud, lastfm and blogs. download via torrent, soulseek (if i cant find some obscure stuff soulseek is the place where it will be...) or blogs if bandcamp an option which it usually is i go with that.

I buy random cds and found some of my most loved artists and albums from buying a random cd I like the look of. I collected vinyl for brief period but it ended up costing my bank account so much, I tend to just stick too jazz and blues with buying vinyl.

I seriously cherish my digital collection 376gb, just over 2000 albums and each one I can tell how I heard about it, what I like about it and at what place in my life I was when I first heard it. Its like a photo album when organised by date added. ocd much.
 
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