I like to discovery tunes through friends and suches, and services like TIDAL. I started collecting vinyl earlier this year and just playing an entire album front to back is amazing, takes me back. Also didn't realize how much I miss how "older" mixing used to sound ...more dynamic not all compressed into a brick. I really admire Vinyl for that. It's also fun to collect which doesn't hurt ... Thinking of working on my CD collection again. As for digital archival, I use FLAC for "backing up" my vinyl, and when aquiring new I like bandcamp or any service that offers FLAC in highres.
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I started going mostly digital about a decade ago. I had moved overseas and so my space was limited. After the initial move, I was constantly moving, so buying physical copies just didn't make sense, especially when I had different regions to contend with.
Admittedly I go straight to one of the streaming services, but for smaller bands I like who are on bandcamp, I’ll use that to buy their stuff and throw it on my plex/jellyfin. I am also trying to cultivate a local music library again after finding my iTunes library from 2006 lol.
I'm mostly on Tidal. I like the higher quality and the increased pay-out options. If I really like the music, I'll either buy it on vinyl or Bandcamp, especially if it's a smaller artist
Exactly the same reason I like using tidal. It seems to me that this is the choice an artist would make.
Free spotify with ad blocking , newpipe mostly.
- I have a collection of music I purchased back in the iTunes days, or ripped from physical CDs
- When I really like an album, I buy it on Bandcamp to support the artist
- For everything else, there's YouTube Music
CD's, Beatport, Beatsource, iTunes. Sometimes there are only tracks and albums only available digitally.
Streaming services for casual listening, but I have an archive on a home theater PC of music I use for my college radio show with each song in mp3 format.
Use Spotify / Apple Podcasts more for podcasts…I collect vinyl, I think it “forces” me to listen to an album as a whole. It’s enjoyable. My set is isn’t crazy expensive and still sounds great!
I use Spotify and Amazon Music for most things, with occasional excursions to Bandcamp and YouTube. If I really like something I'll buy an LP or a download. Spotify gives good recommendations but it tends to lock you into things that are very much the same as what you've already been listening to, and after a while you realize your musical world has become very small. So sometimes I go to everynoise.com for a different way to navigate the Spotify catalogue, and hop around genres until I find something interesting, then back to Spotify to listen around. And I perform classical music so that helps with discovery, and if there's a festival in town I'll go and listen to random bands.
Radio, believe me or not. I try to fish on some indie radios. Also, through podcast or YT: I like when they tell you the story or meaning or help you understand in any way. It helps me enjoy music. Then is easy to pull the threat to jump from one artist to the next.
Then I buy CD on their official website, but don't really listen to them.
What podcasts do you recommend for music discovery?
I thought I was the only person that almost exclusively listened to the radio! I live in an area with a good variety of stations so that helps, I realize some people have very little options when they turn on the radio. I occasionally put on Pandora when I want to listen to a specific obscure genre or YouTube when I'm looking up a specific artist.