What’s your recommendation for listening to music privately?

My requirements are: open source desktop/web (Linux) and android app. I also want basically every song I would ever want.

I’m willing to pay just not on agregious amount of money.

If you are posting your recommendation please care to include the tradeoffs or any annoyances you got from it.

Thanks all!

  • Chulk@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I will usually buy vinyl or cds for artists that I listen to a lot. It has the additional benefit of giving you a hard copy of the data. But yeah, this is unfortunately the way.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Yeah, like support underdogs but be realistic, you cant pay for everything and everyone unless you’re unusally well-resourced so respect your own constraints where they exist.

      And thats just music, are you planning on remaining internally consistent and limiting the breadth of access you could otherwise have across all the modalities like TV shows, movies, books, courses, audiobooks, etc??

      Your consumption does not hurt them, the stuff you would pay for anyway just do that but i think i can live with myself for downloading Pink Flloyd’s discog or the complete cartoon series from childhood lol

      • nullify3112@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        I found a comfortable way to listen to music without torrenting. It relies heavily on a private company though, Bandcamp.

        I spend $20 a month in albums and other than that listen to their shows and recommendations. I can’t pay for everything so I set a cap per month. I decided not to be 100% in control of what I listen to by listening to their radio shows (usually featuring an interview with an artist).

        I’m slowly growing my private music library. Wish I had a friend or two to help. I’m happy to be supporting artists.

      • Chulk@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 days ago

        For sure. Most of my money goes to local artists. If I want to support a music artist, I will usually see them in concert and/or purchase merch. But Ticketmaster is making that difficult these days. I had to have this discussion with my mom regarding amazon kindle.

        “AI companies are stealing everything anyway. Get your media while you can, because they don’t want it to exist anymore.”