I am surprised that people know what amazon music is.
No love for Deezer? It's a streaming service that doesn't shove algorithms down your throat...
Been happy buying music from Bandcamp and not having a subscription. Didn't even make it onto the chart :(
Where's "directory full of FLACs bought from Bandcamp and ripped from CDs"?
Directory full of flacs from alt.bin.lossless and what.cd here.
I got YouTube music and YouTube premium because I needed more Google drive storage.
Loved isn't the word I would use.
It's adequate for day to day background noise that isn't ad-filled garbage and music I hate.
+1, I only have a yt music sub because it's grandfathered in with my yt premium subscription and extra drive storage. YT music recommendations are mildly terrible compared to Spotify, but I'm not throwing $15/mo at Spotify when I only use it a few times a year.
I am surprised that people know what amazon music is.
I didn't until this moment. lol
They are the worst out of all the ones listed. Lower quality and smaller selection.
You can say, "alexa, play classic punk" and suddenly you are using Amazon Music.
“Loved” and “included with Prime” aren’t necessarily the same.
I've got prime but I've never even heard of amazon music before.
Some people say indifference is worse than hate, but that probably doesn't apply to graphs.
What percentage of us love pirating music and putting it on Plex?
Meanwhile me with a 1500 YouTube music video playlist of liked music and a pile of CDs that I bought used, featuring the artists in that playlist
too much fucking hassle.
Honestly, I think this is the biggest reason that music subscriptions are popular.
Nobody cares enough to curate their own music collection anymore, even if it's entirely legal, it's just too much damn work for most people.
Unless you have a special interest in music, eg, audiophiles, then it doesn't matter enough to spend any time on it. As long as you can listen to what you want, when you want, who cares?
Yep, I have a plex server, ihave radarr, sonarr setup, there is probably a same software for music or something similar that would let me get music easily, but I just don't care, spotify discover weekly has been serving me well, we are 4 people paying into a family plan so it's less than 3 euros a month.
Some consider it a hassle, others of us obsessively enjoy manually downloading and sorting our files into our folder structure.
I’ve got a collection going back to a 128k MP3 from a Napster download in 2000. Hundreds of gigabytes of lossless music.
Bandcamp is great, but I use Redacted for those I can’t easily find.
I'll check out Redacted
Meanwhile, Deezer is completely unknown. No one in the comments even mentioned it. RIP.
Where ever you listen to your music, in most cases you can hook it up with ListenBrainz, to save your listening data on a FOSS alternative for Last.fm. And to get all sorts of beneficial features, like for instance recommendations that are truly independent, and getting updates on new releases.
I'm in the 23% on the American side of the chart that uses Pandora. I don't see any reason to switch. I've been working on it knowing my preferences for like 20 years now.
At some point Pithos stopped working, or started working poorly, and I switched to Spotify. The integration with multiple audio sinks that let's you play on any number of networked speakers is a killer feature for me. I loved Pandora but Spotify is a better Pandora (and admittedly more expensive).
Do they do music recommendations? If so, how is it? I use the daily mixes and other mixes on Spotify daily, and got to know plenty od artists that way
In my experience, it's a lot of music that I already know I like. I don't feel like I get much given to me that I wasn't already aware of. With Pandora, you create stations that are based off of a specific band or song. If you are listening to a Rage Against the Machine station, you're going to definitely hear Rage Against the Machine and then stuff that is similar. What I do is put it on shuffle for a group of selected stations and that gives me what I want.
Gotcha, will give it a try at some point. Thanks for the info!
Paying for Amazon Music and using Amazon Music are two different things.
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