really like soulseek, and theres a great android app for it called seeker. you can sort by variables like quality, size, encoding, bitrate, etc.
CD's, Beatport, Beatsource, iTunes. Sometimes there are only tracks and albums only available digitally.
Torrents, Soundcloud Downloader with subscription and YT Music.
I use Spotify and Amazon Music for most things, with occasional excursions to Bandcamp and YouTube. If I really like something I'll buy an LP or a download. Spotify gives good recommendations but it tends to lock you into things that are very much the same as what you've already been listening to, and after a while you realize your musical world has become very small. So sometimes I go to everynoise.com for a different way to navigate the Spotify catalogue, and hop around genres until I find something interesting, then back to Spotify to listen around. And I perform classical music so that helps with discovery, and if there's a festival in town I'll go and listen to random bands.
Admittedly I go straight to one of the streaming services, but for smaller bands I like who are on bandcamp, I’ll use that to buy their stuff and throw it on my plex/jellyfin. I am also trying to cultivate a local music library again after finding my iTunes library from 2006 lol.
Streaming services for casual listening, but I have an archive on a home theater PC of music I use for my college radio show with each song in mp3 format.
I buy it digitally via Qobuz or Bandcamp. I then put it in my nextcloud. That way I can stream it to my phone.
I'm mostly on Tidal. I like the higher quality and the increased pay-out options. If I really like the music, I'll either buy it on vinyl or Bandcamp, especially if it's a smaller artist
Exactly the same reason I like using tidal. It seems to me that this is the choice an artist would make.
Radio, believe me or not. I try to fish on some indie radios. Also, through podcast or YT: I like when they tell you the story or meaning or help you understand in any way. It helps me enjoy music. Then is easy to pull the threat to jump from one artist to the next.
Then I buy CD on their official website, but don't really listen to them.
I thought I was the only person that almost exclusively listened to the radio! I live in an area with a good variety of stations so that helps, I realize some people have very little options when they turn on the radio. I don't use any of the streaming services except occasionally YouTube when I'm looking up a specific artist.
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