Which #MusicStreaming service are you on?

@hpod16@eupolicy.social Jellyfin selfhosted on my home NAS. Paying for subscriptions is stupid.

@hpod16 I really like Deezer so far. The podcast bit in Spotify is better, and I'm a massive podcast consumer. But I got AntennaPod for that instead.

BTW did you see my tip about @carl being an interesting resource for you to consult about social media and psychological defense? He makes a compelling case for the Fediverse.
(He's also helping Ukraine combat disinformation.)

Supercomputing in Europe: Digital resilience and democracy - Carl Heath

Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/supercomputing-in-europe/episodes/Digital-resilience-and-democracy---Carl-Heath-e3ba4ht

@hpod16 No streaming here, I buy CDs and rip them.

@madalex That's not a bad idea.
Sometimes I worry that I don't really own any music. What if the likes of Spotify & Co decide tomorrow that my favourite artists are too radical, (like Pussy Riot in Russia) and take them off streaming services?
So yeah, I'm thinking about buying music again. Also to support the artists, of course.

@hpod16 Deezer. All i own is digital only.

@sibrosan @hpod16 Me too!

And for everything else, there is the FREE, , available in 7 languages, ARTE Concert. I get to have a wild variety of Europe's best festivals in my living room, free of charge.

https://www.arte.tv/es/arte-concert/

@Veza85UE this is a great tip!
My friends and I were saying we should have album listening nights together, but I think concert watching parties is also a great idea!

@hpod16 Plex on my own hardware.

@Veza85UE @hpod16

Qué maravilla

@hpod16 Tidal.

@Turre @hpod16 Tidal here as well. It's the best compromise I have found between availability of the music I want, fairer payment for the artists, and not being helping arm business.

@hpod16 They're catalogued in a playlist too:

https://www.arte.tv/it/videos/RC-014710/i-festival-dell-estate-ovunque-tu-sia/

@sibrosan @hpod16 Lo es, la verdad.

Should've said subscription-free, ARTE is a public channel mostly financed by France+Germany. France has been pushing to expand ARTE in all 24 EU languages and use it as our public broadcaster for nearly a decade. Germany refused to pay, but recently they seem to have got a jolt and now propose to finance it via the EU budget. They still refuse to #EndRebates tho (a 49 billion hole frugals drill in the EU budget), so let's see how they square that circle.

@hpod16 The only music I bought digitally is Tool's Inoculum and only because it was only available as a CD as some kind of super fancy limited edition costing over 100 bucks. The rest I got on CD.

To be fair, my style of listening to music is to listen to complete albums, so buying CDs comes naturally to me.

And yes, in part it is also about supporting the artist for me, so when possible I buy the CDs at band's shop or at concerts, especially for small acts.

@hpod16 Bandcamp and navidrome!

@hpod16 NO streaming at all... I went back to buying CDs... much fairer for the artists and local businesses.

@hpod16 Tidal because I understood artists have a larger share and say.

@hpod16 @karlos

I ripped my CD collection back with computers had CD players.

I will occasionally buy CD / MP3s, but I rarely do that anymore.

@hpod16 Deezer ()

@hpod16 tidal for streaming, but I'm also making more of an effort to purchase regularly.

Tidal has been great overall, no major complaints. Have been on for over a year now, i think. They consistently get ranked among the top 2 for artist payouts, and catalog is perfectly comparable to the other services. UI is very similar to Spotify. I have a few minor grumbles but truly minor.

Even when I purchase, I almost always stream from tidal when listening, unless it is something unavailable there. So purchasing via Bandcamp or physical is primarily to directly support the artist. I've learned it's better to be honest with myself in this respect: tidal is for function, and that's fine. Purchasing is for values, in a way, and the two can coexist just fine as long as I don't over think it!