Apple Music. If I like it I’ll buy it from places like bandcamp, or acquire it if I can’t buy it.

I have my music on my nextcloud instance and nextcloud music app and stream it on my phone using any ampache client

These days, I avoid Spotify, or anything else with their ridiculous advertisements. I used to pay for Spotify but they charge so much for paying so little to the artists that I didn’t want to support them anymore. Not to mention that I truly dislike this algorithmic world we live in, where things are “recommended” for me, but it’s part of an endless conveyer belt of things being sent my way when I didn’t ask for it.

I’m working on getting a record player so I can just intentionally play the music I want. I also like the physicality of it. It feels easier to dive into the artist’s vision of the album as a full experience.

• Spotify for social and casual listening
• Tidal for curated personal music listening time
• brain.fm and endel for background music
• youtube music for rare finds
• youtube premium for tv music like tiny desk concerts and party tv
• mp3 through bone conducting earphones for workout, especially water sports. I try not to take my phone to avoid distractions.

Mostly stuff I bought from Bandcamp. It’s drm free, but for convenience I usually let it stream from the app.

I also have a bunch of mp3s from older purchases I listen to sometimes, but I don’t have a media server set up so that’s mostly limited to my desktop.

Sometimes I’ll pull up a specific track on YouTube, but that’s mostly for “do you remember this song?” stuff. Adblock and the “resume playback from lock screen” make it bearable.

I mostly use Apple Music because I have it and it’s easy access to a huge catalog of artists. I started using a little cheap MP3 player in my car that’s loaded with old Punk o Rama compilation albums, some ripped from my own collection, but many were downloaded because they are hard to find now.

I found a bunch of good bands at my library, so I checked the cds out and ripped them to my PC. I also frequent thrift stores for cheap books and cds. I’m slowly learning how to set up my own home network and I’d like to stream my own stuff on the go, but I have a lot to learn before that.

My favorite band is Green Day. I fell in love with them when I was 10 and heard them on the radio in the early 90s. They were my introduction to punk music and were my lifeline during some really rough parts of my life. I survived because of the 1039 smooth album and Star Wars Pod Racer on N64.

Primarily Spotify, mixed in with SoundCloud and YouTube for live sets.

Never streaming or radio. I like to choose what I want, and want uninterrupted play (not reliant on internet), when I want, and often prefer stuff where all or most of the album is good, so I listen mostly in order and almost never shuffle.

Mostly mp3’s on whatever works for the device. Phone mp3’s, USB for game console and car. Sometimes vinyl. Even record the vinyl’s sometimes so I can play the vinyl mix anywhere since vinyl’s tend to be mixed differently.

mostly mp3s, but I also use iBroadcast to stream my personal library on other devices

favorite band is The Magnetic Fields, favorite album 69 Love Songs, favorite song “100,000 Fireflies”

Files downloaded from Soulseek and Bandcamp. Supplemented by Metrolist.

A mixture of hard-drive storage and streaming.

for streaming, Soma.fm. for everything else, ripped CD’s and mp3s/flac I’ve found all over the internet that I’ve collected for 20 something years. I use jellyfin and a VPN to listen to my stuff from my phone.

I like to change it up. I’ll listen to USBs on my stereo, or on my phone with earphones. I listen to USBs which have mp3s from all over the place, YouTube, Radio Garden, and regular radio (on a stereo where you have to manually tune it to a station). I’m constantly unearthing new music, and music that’s new to me.

flac files + navidrome + tempo app on mobile / supersonic on desktop