I buy vinyl for older albums (or current favourite artists I follow that release LPs), and all my digital purchases are through Bandcamp. I host everything (flac or mp3 files) on a Navidrome server and stream from that.

I would like to listen in an armchair to cd or vinyl through a modest, though still good, stereo speaker system. But my life doesn’t include space or time for any of that.

So - almost 100% streaming, through earbuds, the car speakers, and/or HomePod. There was a time I was on Oink and then What - what put Apple Music to shame. The staff picks were eclectic and amazing and I learned a lot about new to me music styles.

I don’t like listening to music in the background in general, but dance/electronic music is good for background distraction for workouts and focus. But my preference is for classical music - Bach, Beethoven, etc. - depends on my mood. Sometimes I’m in the mood for Queen or Pink Floyd. I’m never in the mood for pop.

I’ve been collecting vinyl for close to 20 years now. I didn’t mean to but bands and labels were just trying to get rid of them in the mid 2000s so I got a dozen or so free records when preordering CDs. About half of them were not on any other format at the time so I got a record player.

So I mostly listen on that when at home or use volumio as a multi room playback system to stream off qobuz or from a local library on my NAS. I did get into cassettes during the pandemic and do find them rather entertaining.

Favorite band is easy, its Guided by Voices. As for why I can’t really say except that they rock. You have to be able to see the brilliant uncut pop gems through the lofi tape hiss. Pretty much all their best stuff sounds like a first take demo tape.

Generally Spotify but I’m looking to ditch it for another similar services bc I can’t take their crap anymore (fucking YouTube kid like feature I cannot block, audiobooks…). I insist on paying so that eventually, even if only a portion of, I pay artists. Also I have yet to find alternatives for finding new / matching songs.

On the side I recently acquired a record player. I like to have a physical media. Makes music more tangible for the kids as well. Make us listen to whole albums as well so it’s a different take than what Spotify offers.

.mp3 + Gapless (on desktop) / Gramophone (Mobile)

Streaming. Favorite artist is the Beatles, but Led Zeppelin is a close second.

In my phone you can create a sound profile that equalizes the music to what you can hear using a hearing test. It’s a game changer for listening to music day to day, everything sounds better. Even my cheap headphones sound good.

I use youtube music, and it’s alright.

spotify

its unfeasable to use anything else as i have a vast catologue

Used to be Spotify, now Tidal. Would prefer Qobuz, but it’s significantly more expensive on the family tier.

Usually on headphones, og on HEOS via tidal connect - or, I would have preferred that, but it’s super broken, so now from the tidal integration (not connect) on a wiiim…

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.

A mixture of hard-drive storage and streaming.

I love local media, especially vinyl, cassettes, and CDs. When they’re not available, however, I’ll listen to Sirius (Lithium!) or YTM or my local library of mp3s.

Always FLAC, I have 2 DAPs, Sony walkman and Hiby, Hiby is better, I rip my CDs and put the FLAC files in my DAPs, I also use streaming through qobuz when I’m in my laptop.

Anymore there are a few songs on yt that I listen to that I haven’t downloaded. Otherwise it’s mostly all local files on my devices. File type varies.

Otherwise, I have a bunch of CDs that I can either play using my desktop or battery hog of an old Discman. Pros for desktop is I have access to my higher quality bluetooth headphones and can move and do other things whole listening. Pros for the CD player is I have an old pair of 90s in ear Sony headphones that came with it.

Couldn’t tell you a particular group for a favorite band right now since I’ve been listening to a fair bit of 90s ( basically all my CDs ) when it comes to most of the band music I’ve been listening to.

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.