I am streaming my music, but from my own server at home.

I’ve never paid for a streaming service. All my music is on my local device.

Yeah i used to pay for Spotify, then they gave a huge contract to what’s his nuts, now I just have mp3s on my phone

I use spotify and i was very reluctant to start. Eventually i caved because i wanted an algorithm to help me find new music and for the most part spotify does a decent job at that. As things get more expensive it will be one of the first things I’ll cut out.

I stream, but I don’t pay.

I never paid for Spotify, just used the free tier, eventually got fed up with the ads, learned about spotDL and yt-dlp, so now I just listen to mp3s from my phone

I listen to my personal collection most of the time. I use streaming to keep track of new artists, but I download things I like rather than keep streaming them.

I steam it because ironing melts the vinyl.

Cheaper than buying for me, I on avarage would spend up to 6-7 times more on physical a month.

I used to move around a huge library of mp3s. I just can’t be bothered anymore and spotify does a reasonable job for a reasonable price.

If only could easily access most movies and TV with one subscription. But anyway this was about music.

Price has gone up 30% in 10 years or whatever since I started. But then so has every fucking thing else.

i pay for tidal, but use streamrip, lidarr and navidrome as my own music media server stack, and stream from there

Tidal hasn’t been raising prices yet

I don’t listen to music. There’s literally no music that I enjoy enough to choose to listen to it. I’m pretty sure there’s something broken in my brain.

I ended up writing a super janky python script to play my music from my terminal. All of it is stored locally, including lyrics.

I steam it because its healthier.

I have a big-ass folder of mp3s that gets synchronised around via Syncthing. My mp3s mostly come from CDs I’ve bought and ripped.

Never paid for streaming. Usually buy music and download the files to play on my computer or stream them from the computer to my phone or wherever. Mainly have been buying lossless .flac music files from Bandcamp.

I just have a personal collection on my server and stream it with wireguard and symfonium

No, I have to own my music if I’m going to enjoy it; the thought of a company being able to take away music that I love takes away the enjoyment. I need at least the files and the backups under my control. It’s not even about price, I would still buy CDs and rip them if that was the only way.

I only listen to music locally, i don’t even use self hosted services. Musicolet is the perfect musicplayer. My collection is both purchased bandcamp music and music downloaded using spot-dl. As hip hop being the dominent genre i listen to it easy to discover new artists just by finding features

I do not stream. I have over 6K in my MP3 collection. I’ve never used a music streaming service.

I’ll pay for as long as it’s worth it, and Spotify is worth every cent even though I have hundreds of gigs of music available on my plex server.

I typically buy music , most often from Bandcamp. I figure $10/mo gets me one or two albums I can keep forever. I tend to be more depth-first with music, where I get really into a band for a little while then move on, so this works for me.

In Poland streaming costs next to nothing, at least on Tidal. I'm regularly using radios and generated playlists containing music I don't have in my collection, so it's definitely cheaper than buying every album

My music taste is pretty narrow and my music library is small (<800 songs). Buy my music on Band camp, then stream from Jellyfin. I wouldn’t ever pay for streaming. If I want to go through new music then I use a more targeted online radio (Jango is free and good).

It surprises me that people want to stream such a large amount. Do people just listen to random tunes? Happy to listen to anything?

I do use a local collection, but where are you seeing prices trending towards $30?

Look I know Bandcamp got a bad rap for being bought and sold a few times but they still have Bandcamp Fridays and that coupled with my own streaming server at home seems like the ticket to me.

It’s pretty cheap in the third world👍

Fuck streaming. All I need is my local library and an .mp3 player with tactile controls.

I do not understand how people are OK with being reliant on some other service to listen to their music, and how they’re OK with having to deal with a touchscreen if they want to skip tracks or otherwise navigate the library. Not to mention that they don’t even have full control over their playlists, or that songs can disappear…

Conversely, with a dedicated player and knowledge of your own library, you can skip between albums with your eyes closed, and you never have to worry about losing a playlist or song.

I buy my music from iTunes, I also buy my audiobooks from Apple Books.

I do not rent my music library.

If I go into deep depression I don’t want to have to worry about having to keep paying to access my music, same with my audiobooks.

I still use soulseek lol

I stream music via my own server. I use navidrome. I use their Web UI for PC and then symfonium for mobile.

But yeah you’re right, it’s cheaper for me to buy a few CDs every now and again than pay a subscription

I don’t stream very often, when I do I use Apple Music because I have the discounted package subscription. Even then, I typically only stream specific punk playlists. Otherwise, I listen to the MP3s I ripped from my CDs or downloaded 20 years ago.

I also usually listen to the radio in the car. A local station plays a lot of the stuff I like (Green Day, Social Distortion, Ramones etc) and mixes in new stuff. Plus, I live so close to the southern US border, sometimes they throw in some local Mexican rock band.

My tidal is $13, but I also listen locally on my mp3 player.