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I had Spotify for years and years. Their recommendations got worse over time and i found myself listening to them less. And the. Almost not at all. So I cancelled. I’ve tried tidal and Deezer. Bandcamp has been ok for finding music sometimes. I’ve been checking cds out of the library more. Lots of damage to those that interferes. CD sound quality should be better than mp3. I’m considering making a physical media purchase every month or two and reducing streaming.

With my ears. Sometimes with my toes but it’s not as enjoyable.

Spotify, but considering switching back to piracy

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

There are really only a couple of occasions when I will.

1. 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.
2. 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.

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.

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.

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.

In the highest quality available with an external USB DAC and studio monitors. Usually I listen to music alone; I don’t like blasting music on speakers unless I’m in my car.

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.

Bose QC Ultra headphones connected to either my phone or computer, running Plexamp and streaming music from my homeserver.

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.

My process involves a PC with Arch Linux (btw), .flac files, Strawberry music player, a Fiio K5 Pro DAC, and Audio Technica ATH-M50x headphones.

I don't listen to musics anymore. Hate it when people embedding musics to a video on TikTok, status or stories.

Using mpv, on ripped files from my large CD collection.

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

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.

In my car, with my windows down, singing loudly (and fairly good actually)

Foobar9000 through iMac speakers, streaming from my NAS. Or using the cheap over ear Superlux headphones I got for listening experiences.

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.

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.

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.

Navidrome is my goto. Even has apps for iOS and Android, not native though. Don’t ask me where all the mo3s on my server come from, they just appear there.

I have a Jellyfin server with a music library. Mostly listen in the car and sometimes at home.

I like to listen to albums. I learned a long time ago that the best tracks are usually not the singles, or if they are, it's not really an artist I'll listen to.

1. Obtain file
2. Play on VLC (on Android)

I'm not really a song listener, I find movie, tv, or video game, mostly instrumental music, and add them to a folder.

Upload files to cloud and portable ssds for redundancy

Most often, throw on an album I've listened to recently.
If I'm feeling a specific artist, I open their page and either select one of their albums or shuffle.
If I really don't know, shuffle everything and skip what I don't feel like listening to when it comes on.

A bit weird eh? Never got into making playlists either.

A few different ways. Typically in the morning I like to start with my local independent music station (shout out to The Current) since I hate making decisions in the morning and like to see what is new. I also typically listen to them in the car if I am not listening to my NPR new station. I like to see what is new and what concerts are going on nearby.

While I am working I will typically listen to an entire album from start to finish on Spotify. I have a go to artists and I sometimes make an effort to listen an artist I likes entire catalog. I do sometimes just let it play after the album plays to see what comes up. My wife loves a more mixed so I will do their themed playlists and their artist radios. I also do the artist radio if I want to just see what is happening or I have a smaller gap.

We have a record player in our living room. So if we are planning on sitting and doing things in that room we will use that. Its mostly chill and vibe records so we need to be in that mood. We do that more in the fall and winter than the rest of the year since we won't be in that room as often. Its often used around the holidays since we will be just vibing around the house

radio.garden for listening to whichever ad-free stations we can find (usually classical/jazz stations) while at work.

rainwave.cc for when we're at home and just want background music, fitting as it's a site for video game music and covers.

when we have moods where we want to listen to specific songs and albums, youtube.