Curious where you legally download music in 2026.
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Curious where you legally download music in 2026. Legally.
Newgrounds and Bandcamp are my salvation but discovery is hard.
I am not aghast of paying for music but I am not capable of using streaming services I need to posses the music.
There are lots of weekly hashtags to follow. #ProgTuesday and #FridayMetalCovers are my favorites. @vanessawynn does #GrinddayFriday . The whole fedi participates in #MusicWomenWednesday .
There are lots of others too.
Somewhere out there is an RSS feed of all the music postd by any user on metalhead.club. I don’t think I have the link to it anymore, but someone here does.
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There are lots of weekly hashtags to follow. #ProgTuesday and #FridayMetalCovers are my favorites. @vanessawynn does #GrinddayFriday . The whole fedi participates in #MusicWomenWednesday .
There are lots of others too.
Somewhere out there is an RSS feed of all the music postd by any user on metalhead.club. I don’t think I have the link to it anymore, but someone here does.
Welcome to the instance BTW. I like prog and power metal. What kind of music are you looking for?
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Curious where you legally download music in 2026. Legally.
Newgrounds and Bandcamp are my salvation but discovery is hard.
I am not aghast of paying for music but I am not capable of using streaming services I need to posses the music.
@rRaven Bandcamp and Qobuz are what I use. Or CDs from eBay on the rare occasion I can’t find something online.
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Curious where you legally download music in 2026. Legally.
Newgrounds and Bandcamp are my salvation but discovery is hard.
I am not aghast of paying for music but I am not capable of using streaming services I need to posses the music.
@rRaven
I also use mostly Bandcamp. Discoveries i look Here and read reviews (in my case more metal reviews).
If you are into metal @HailsandAles has every friday #FletchsFridayReleases with new releases -
There are lots of weekly hashtags to follow. #ProgTuesday and #FridayMetalCovers are my favorites. @vanessawynn does #GrinddayFriday . The whole fedi participates in #MusicWomenWednesday .
There are lots of others too.
Somewhere out there is an RSS feed of all the music postd by any user on metalhead.club. I don’t think I have the link to it anymore, but someone here does.
@DXMacGuffin @rRaven @vanessawynn there's a list here, not fully up to date but should get you started
https://sand-soup-e22.notion.site/Musical-Hashtags-d9c23dc336574d1895616f425d2e5281 -
Curious where you legally download music in 2026. Legally.
Newgrounds and Bandcamp are my salvation but discovery is hard.
I am not aghast of paying for music but I am not capable of using streaming services I need to posses the music.
@rRaven Recently they pointed me to Qobuz and seems exactly what I neeeded too: download your music legally and they have some albums I could not find.
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Curious where you legally download music in 2026. Legally.
Newgrounds and Bandcamp are my salvation but discovery is hard.
I am not aghast of paying for music but I am not capable of using streaming services I need to posses the music.
@rRaven for discovery, admittedly I follow a lot of bands on Instagram. But Bandcamp, yes- do you use the mobile app? It's decent. I follow several genres (helps a ton) and lots of labels and bands and the suggestions there are often on POINT. I just watch the feeds and the messages from artists or labels. The first tab is general Bandcamp notable stuff, the second is the hashtags and people you follow, third is the messages. You also see what your friends buy, etc. Also, Qobuz if it's not on Bandcamp, etc.
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Curious where you legally download music in 2026. Legally.
Newgrounds and Bandcamp are my salvation but discovery is hard.
I am not aghast of paying for music but I am not capable of using streaming services I need to posses the music.
@rRaven Qobuz and Bandcamp mostly. Otherwise I buy the CD and rip it to my NAS.
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@rRaven Qobuz and Bandcamp mostly. Otherwise I buy the CD and rip it to my NAS.
@gavin57 Can someone psyop the kids into wanting CDs again? Thanks.
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@rRaven for discovery, admittedly I follow a lot of bands on Instagram. But Bandcamp, yes- do you use the mobile app? It's decent. I follow several genres (helps a ton) and lots of labels and bands and the suggestions there are often on POINT. I just watch the feeds and the messages from artists or labels. The first tab is general Bandcamp notable stuff, the second is the hashtags and people you follow, third is the messages. You also see what your friends buy, etc. Also, Qobuz if it's not on Bandcamp, etc.
@jake4480 I unfortunately only really listen to music on my portable player. Not a phone. My phone calls and texts. I don't really have the internet in my pockets.
Bandcamp is about the closest thing we have to something mainstream that works for me other than CDs but those are sort of becoming less than mainstream.
Whatever that means.
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@rRaven Recently they pointed me to Qobuz and seems exactly what I neeeded too: download your music legally and they have some albums I could not find.
@jak Oh that's good. I've actually never heard of this. Good to have another avenue to check.
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@gavin57 Can someone psyop the kids into wanting CDs again? Thanks.
@rRaven Give them time. I think they are more clued in than we give them credit for.
We have to make sure there is music for them to care about. The medium will sort itself out.
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@DXMacGuffin @rRaven @vanessawynn there's a list here, not fully up to date but should get you started
https://sand-soup-e22.notion.site/Musical-Hashtags-d9c23dc336574d1895616f425d2e5281@loewe No idea how to use these hashtags to download music to my ipod but thank you.
