Where are you getting your music?

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Where are you getting your music?
« on: February 20, 2025, 08:07:24 pm »
I've been trying to move away from streaming services like Spotify, but it seems impossible. I bought some music from a few artists on Bandcamp and scrounged up the old music off my iPod from like 15 years ago. Where are you getting your music?

Re: Where are you getting your music?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2025, 02:57:23 am »
I use soundcloud and then download all the songs that I like so I have a local copy archived in case it ever gets deleted off the cloud
*spork*

Re: Where are you getting your music?
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2025, 10:55:55 am »
7digital is a drm free British music download site.
 
I highly recommend it for downloading full albums.

Re: Where are you getting your music?
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2025, 07:44:09 am »
Bandcamp, every month.  It's the only marketing mailing-list I voluntarily joined.

Soma.FM has done right by me for years; it's what plays every day on my music-playing appliance in the kitchen.  It's streams, but not proprietary crap like Spotify where I have to spend a third or half of the time trying to get their software to work correctly.  Shoutcast/Icecast streams are great because they're free, it's a well-known format that works with anything not solely some gatekeeping software, and the stream includes whats-playing-now so when you hear something you like you can find who made it and search for more.

incompetech by Kevin Macleod, for when I was desperate for music to make intermissions for Monday nights.

Re: Where are you getting your music?
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2025, 08:32:44 am »
I'm still a heavy Spotify user, but I've also gotten back into listening to the radio. It's nice to have someone else pick music for me! Community/student stations are enjoyably quirky.

I use Triode, but it's just a nice search/aggregator for standard radio streams. I mostly listen to KUSF, KPISS, BFF.FM, Nectarine, and my local student radio stations.

Re: Where are you getting your music?
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2025, 08:04:26 pm »
I love the local(ish) college radio station.  Go Rams!
https://kcsufm.com/
aka luke

Re: Where are you getting your music?
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2025, 04:34:22 pm »
if people like radio, here's mine

https://a4.asurahosting.com:6530/radio.mp3
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Re: Where are you getting your music?
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