Music - stream or old school?

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Curious to see who among OcUK is tied into a streaming service and who is old school with CDs/MP3s stored local? Maybe a poll mods?

Myself I use streaming, I essentially don't own any music. I used to pirate music back in the day, and burn to CD. However with the advent of streaming I ditched all the pirated music in favour of streaming. That did get me thinking, that I'll be paying for this service indefinitely. I have been considering buying CDs again and moving away from streaming, but I would lose a lot of convenience. I do tend to listen to a core set of music regularly and only newer stuff on occasionally.
 
4K8KW10 said:
How do you listen to music in the car? USB flash drive, DVD or good-old CDs? Or just radio?
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In my 2018 Passat, Spotify via Android Auto. In my 2013 BMW, I haven't quite got the perfect solution yet, since BMW hate Android. If I had my own music collection, I think the solution would be simply load onto a flash drive and away I go. Alternative is for me to look into bluetooth streaming, which requires some tinkering.

SexyGreyFox said:
FLAC on a DAP into expensive triple band in-ears.
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Nice, how you listen to the music away from your computer? and what music player do you use on Windows?
 
Exclusively spotify.

It's included in my phone tariff so it's subsided fairly well. When my contract runs out I'll still pay for it as I did before.

It's too convenient. I'd be willing to try google music though if it was good enough to take me away from spotify.
 
Mostly stream music now and haven't purchased a CD for a while. The next CD I will receive as physical is from a kickstarter project, that'll be due end of the year.
 
Begbie said:
Exclusively spotify.

It's included in my phone tariff so it's subsided fairly well. When my contract runs out I'll still pay for it as I did before.

It's too convenient. I'd be willing to try google music though if it was good enough to take me away from spotify.
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I tried Google music, and it really wasn't up to much. They are also going to grandfather it in favour of YouTube music I believe.
 
Haven’t bought a cd in years. Nor have I purchased or downloaded mp3’s in a long time

I just pay for Apple Music. So much more convenient. :) I tried Spotify, but didn’t like that it didn’t feel like a native apple app. Apple Music is equal, if not better for me. Same price as well.
 
I use iTunes solely for storing my music. I still have an 80gb iPod classic that is around ten years old now and iTunes is an ideal piece of kit to store and categorise my music as I want. Disappointed that Apple discontinued the classic iPod line though; I purely want it to play music, not act as a camera, game device, store photos, apps etc, like the new devices.

I get all my music away from iTunes, via a certain Russian music website, and then import it.

Streaming services haven't captured me; prefer to purchase music when I want, own the mp3s and keep them backed up.
 
Streaming these days, especially now I have 100GB for £20/m on Virgin Mobile. :cool: I use Apple music, mainly because I'm not a fan of Spotify's freemium model and use Apple everything anyway. If something isn't on Apple Music then I just add it to my library from my extensive collection of CDs I ripped to an external drive and it just slots in seamlessly.

I have so many ALAC files but even if I love high end audio gear, AAC 256kbps is essentially indistinguishable from CD for all the music I listen to. My CD collection can definitely be got rid of, but I wish there was an easy environmentally friendly way to get rid of all of them.

The way I look at it is,
1) It's likely I'll have internet access/4G unless there's a global catastrophe, and if I'm too destitute to afford a mobile data plan or home internet, listening to music is going to be the least of my concern. I nearly always have a good internet connection and I can always download a few playlists to listen offline.
2) For the cost of a dozen CDs or so, I can have access to most of the music ever recorded.
3) It gives me access to all the social aspect of music with recommendations, other peoples playlists and things like that.
 
I was reading an article and I think this quote stood out to me:

There’s a significance, I’ve realized, that comes with spending money on a particular song or album. It becomes an investment, which in turn demands your attention. I used to savor new tunes, listening to them over and over to identify their nuances. Services like Spotify and Rdio make the music feel disposable.
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I'm half and half now, I used to be almost exclusively local music both at home and in the car up until about 12 months ago. The vast majority of my music was ripped into iTunes and in my old car I had an iPod in the glovebox I would reguarely sync with iTunes giving me all the same music in the car.

However, a year or so ago I ended up changing both my car and my mobile contract and this changed things. Like some others I now get Spotify as part of my mobile contract and I now use that pretty much exclusively at home / work etc instead of my large iTunes library. In my car I'm still a bit more old school, I can't connect the iPod easily any more but my head unit has an SD card slot. I've re-organised 32GB of Music more logically onto an SD card and use this the bulk of the time when driving. My stereo does support car play as well and on longer journeys where I would be using sat nav I tend to switch to teaming sat nav / spotify so its certainly a mix!

I did try using bluetooth audio streaming but found it a pain. I like my car to remember the last album I was listening to and carry on from there. I ended up finding that when I was using bluetooth streaming I would get in the car to find it playing "facebookvideoowerisfk3j4h928yrfwjkh" or similiar instead of what I actually wanted!
 
I still buy CDs. I rip each album to a FLAC image with a cue sheet. To listen to music on portable devices I convert the tracks to MP3s using foobar2000.
 
I've said it once and I'll say it again.....I use large format MP3s.

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Rarely but CDs, mainly vinyl, then I'll rip them onto the PC for taking with me on my ipod.
 
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