How do you listen to music?
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I use Spotify. I have some Anker Soundcore iP30 ear buds that I got for $25 through Costco. They work well enough. I was thinking about getting an MP3/DAP and managing my own library though. Spotify's recommendations totally suck, but it's so easy to access. However, as of late, I feel that infinite options actually limits my listening, because instead of enjoying it, I'm always looking to what's next because it may be better.
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Spotify, but considering switching back to piracy
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I stream my own collection (about 35K tracks) from my home laptop (at the moment) using mpd.
It's available everywhere there's internet 24/7.
It's usually playing (at least in the background) whenever I'm awake.
I use tailscale to access remotely (phone/car/wherever).In case that fails, everything is backed up and synced to the free ibroadcast.com plan.
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There are really only a couple of occasions when I will.
- When driving alone. Sometimes I will be in the mood for a podcast, but occasionally music instead. I have a single playlist of around 1600 tracks on my phone for this.
- When my SO and I are eating at home. We both have misophonia to some degree. In my SO's case this results in her wanting to stab anyone making chewing noises with a fork. It is slurping noises with me. To minimise the stabbing we listen to, typically, BBC R3 when eating together. Until recently we had a DAB radio for this, but reception is crap where we are nowadays, so we have a bluetooth speaker setup for our phones.
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Using mpv, on ripped files from my large CD collection.
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Bose QC Ultra headphones connected to either my phone or computer, running Plexamp and streaming music from my homeserver.
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In vehicle: android auto or blutooth from my phone.
Computer: I used to play a lot of music from youtube, but haven't for quite a while after starting to watch how to videos or Dust and other short movie channels.
Work: headphones, sometimes earbuds and something those shokz skull vibrating things that let me hear what is going on in the background. Both via blutooth from the phone.
Workshop: I have my 20+ year old receiver/amp with speakers and a subwoofer from my early 20s hooked up and I stream my phone through a Roku plugged into a TV that has component outputs old enough for that receiver. Works surprisingly well!
I should really add some more songs to the phone. I had a limited list I've carried over from an older phone with a lot less storage and there is plenty of room for all my ancient ripped CD tracks, although so many of them are just 'Track 01' or something. Not sure if there is a way to rename them to track titles.
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All the time, however I can.
My collection is about 60gb, in mp3s. I have a navidrome server at home, and Tempo app in my phone. In the car, I use a 64gb thumb drive and the car stereo.
I also have about 200 CDs and 500 LPs for when I'm relaxing or cooking or cleaning.
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With my ears. Sometimes with my toes but it’s not as enjoyable.
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Usually while I'm working I will listen to various lofi playlists and while doing housework I will listen to my favourite songs list or when I'm traveling by train. I do all this with Spotify.
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Foobar9000 through iMac speakers, streaming from my NAS. Or using the cheap over ear Superlux headphones I got for listening experiences.
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I used to listen to music, but now I only listen to podcasts.
Not sure why but I no longer feel like listening to music.
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MP3s on my phone played in the car over Bluetooth. Same MP3s played on my main computer from my NAS or on my stereo though an app that came with the receiver.
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Spotify. I know a lot of people here like having thier own collection cough arrr cough, but Spotify makes finding new music from pretty unknown artists too easy.
The weekly Monday and Friday playlists are too amazing
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In my car, with my windows down, singing loudly (and fairly good actually)
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blasting through a speaker while doing chores.
tiny quiet helmet-mounted speaker while commuting so I can still hear traffic noises
never headphones, never earbuds
but live music is always the best
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Personal collection via Plex server and Plexamp either on desktop (speakers/headphones) or my phone (headphones/car stereo)
I actually originally misread this question as "How often do you listen to music" and so the answer to that is, based on my average tracks per year on Last.fm which is roughly around 10,000 per year, I average around 27 tracks a day, which I would guesstimate to be roughly about two hours a day.
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With my ears. Sometimes with my toes but it’s not as enjoyable.
Jokes like this make me think that we as humans deserve things like the plague.
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Through a few community radio stations. I've long been a volunteer DJ for one in my region. Tune into the shows that I resonate with. Awesome to hear what some actual folks have curated for the week. Discover lots of new music that way and also through research into what I'd like to play on the next show.
