I mostly eat soup, or do you drink it?

Is serial a soup? No, its a port.

But why??

A mix of digital (bandcamp/7digital/pulled from CD - 1,132 albums currently) and physical media like records and CDs. Most of it from my ipod or from my computer which is hooked up to my hifi.

Favorite this month? Lots of Dropkick Murphys, Anciients, and Illumina A.D.

Usually with my ears.

Streaming mostly, with a little vinyl now and then. A little bit of radio but even that’s usually streaming over the internet.

Actually, now that I think of it I have a tape I need to run through another tape player to confirm whether the tape is broken, or my tape player is. Bought a Sons of Butcher demo with tracks I haven’t seen elsewhere yet (have heard live) at a show a while back, played successfully once and now it doesn’t. But I only have one of those kinda shitty vinyl+tape+aux+radio+bluetooth players you see on Amazon around christmas, so it’s even odds which is busted.

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.

Apple Music. If I like it I’ll buy it from places like bandcamp, or acquire it if I can’t buy it.

No streaming. DAP loaded with mp3/flac/m4a/opus from ripped CDs and downloads then I make a few playlists or set random play on the while library.

A mix between MP3s, FLACs, and streaming through FOSS frontends to YouTube Music.

I download from soulseek, then put it in iTunes Apple Music and sync it to my phone

Recently bought a DAP (Digital Audio Player) and started downloading to distance myself from Spotify’s increasingly intrusive push of AI-riddled music and podcasts. Large commercial artists are torrented, while smaller bands’ music off of bandcamp and qobuz.

I still have my Spotify account to reference songs that I’ve bookmarked, but since I ended my subscription I no longer use it frequently enough to discover new music as I detest ads. Now I discover new music throughs combination of falling down youtube rabbit holes, and browsing various lemmy communities, /c/eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online (I forget how to link communities. I’m also considering checking out last.fm and other music services like that.

Bands I’ve been enjoying lately:

• Magdalena Bay
• Night Tapes
• Feng Suave
• Rikas
• The Beths
• The Marias
• Djo

I’m also looking forward to purchasing the new Paper Kites album when it releases in January. :)

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.

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.

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.

I have a big collection of Creative Commons songs. And I wrote a little web music player to stream from my home-server, which I use for listening when I’m working from home, since I didn’t want to install a music player on my work laptop…

Setup: Tidal through USB Audio Player on my Samsung Galaxy S23 with an Audioquest DragonFly Cobalt DAC and Sennheiser IE 900 headphones.

Why: because I can taste the sound in my mouth

Some favorites: Erutan, Diana Panton, The Ink Spots, The 8-Bit Big Band, Dir en grey, Eluveitie, Aimer, Paramore, Shiina Ringo, Tokyo Jihen, Yorushika