How do you listen to your music? Speakers, headphones, do you like streaming services, do you have a collection of your own? Vinyl? Personally I like vinyl if I’m listening on speakers, and my phone
headphones, I can’t hear music any other way, I can’t stand the idea of other people hearing what i’m choosing to hear,
Love vinyl, but for practicality I also have to say I’m really happy with my FLAC digital collection right now served through Plex. I’ve got a JBL sound system for my living room that plays all my audio whether music or video related.
But then I also listen to mp3 stuff using crappy Bluetooth ear buds when the volume needs to stay down, so I’m not exactly an audio snob either
Do you use Plexamp?
Ive got a large collection of digital music. And a collection of vinyl records. But mostly i stream from my phone. I pay for no advertising in my streaming service.
I’ve bought a couple cheap amplifiers that i plugged into speakers so i can listen to music with good quality audio. Im no audiophile but having a dedicated sound system really ups my enjoyment of music
I have found that I like music most when I play it. It helps me regulate!
I put my chosen songs on a flash drive, plug it into my smart tv, and play them with the media player.
No ads.
Noise cancelling headphones on my phone through Spotify.
Much more often listening to podcasts though, same way. Car speakers when I’m driving.
I use a mix of Spotify and downloaded music, and I prefer listening through headphones/ear buds. My noise cancelling headphones broke recently, so I instead have been using regular headphones/earbuds topped with the stereotypical autism noise blocking headset. Much cheaper with the same end result; it blocks out virtually all noise around me. I love the sound and idea of vinyl but cannot commit to yet another collection.
I use YouTube music, as I have a YouTube premium subscription, with a headset and a dac/amp on high volume. I use loop earplugs for sound sensitivities, so I don’t hear anything outside of my headset by default, which in turn means I have to have the volume even higher which makes the bass feel really hard.
Same with YT Music. I have a desire to de-google, but I haven’t made it priority. If I focus solely on my user experience, it’s pretty good. They have everything I would ever want to listen to. However, I do want to stop supporting companies whose business practices don’t match my values.
I used to use speakers, but they kind of crapped out. And limited space for the computer made it harder to have them around so I switched to headphones.
So I don’t use any streaming services beyond my YouTube ‘playlists’ of songs that are all like 10 to 20 years old at this point. Used to use DI.fm, but they switched to a model that required a subscription to listen to the only channel I listened to which was extremely disappointing to me for a time. When it comes to physical media I love CDs and actually buy some occasionally. I know they’re a ‘dying media type’, same with all physical media, and it makes me so sad/mad because I much prefer to have a physical copy of something I enjoy. While I don’t use my CDs much they are my go to way of getting music when I am in my car.
Spotify for the convenience. Scrobble everything to listenbrainz. Use listenbrainz and spotify to discover new stuff constantly. I mostly listen to music every second I’m awake if I can help it, primarily on headphones to not annoy others.
