What streaming music services do you pay for?

[Spacehead]

None/free

Listen/buy form Bandcamp or getting lost in archive.org mostly nowdays. I know some of the stuff on there shouldn't be but i'll give it a listen & if i like it i'll buy the CD. I found some really great finds there.

 

[nakedfrog]

I also only listen to "Albums" never mix and shuffle. I start at track one and listen until the end.

On albums with weak songs, do you skip those, or just deal with them?

 

[Muadib]

It's Qobuz and Tidal for me. They both work with Roon, which I love.

 

[ch33zw1z]

spotify

used to use google music, when it switched to youtube music quite a bit of my local music wasn't "picked up" by it, and YT music started injecting commercials into my local music playback, so eff 'em.

 

[olds]

I don't pay for any, per se. I have Prime so it comes with music.
My wife has Spotify but I doubt she ever uses it.

Now TV...
Hulu, Netflix, Prime, YouTube TV, NFL Network and we have Spectrum Cable.
I'll pause YouTube after football season and may cancel Spectrum as they have no easy commercial skip

 

[Homerboy]

Rip CDs or buy mp3s (bandcamp). Not to mention the huge library I have from my radio station days.
Play via Plex/Plex Amp

 

[MrSquished]

I switched from Tidal to Spotify as Tidal was giving me some issues with keyboard media controls. Spotify is also coming out with a HiFi version pretty soon so that will be an option to go back to higher res audio for my desktop setup.

The Spotify app is definitely more sophisticated and feature rich than the Tidal app. Glad I made the switch. Plus a lot of people have Spotify so it's easier to share playlists. I used a web based app that took my Tidal playlists and libary and turned them into Spotify playlists, and it worked like a charm. This made changing services quite seamless and pain free.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Bandcamp or physical CDs.

 

[DigDog]

"pay" ????

wot mean plos xplain