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If I am buying new music, my preferred format is vinyl with a download code for audio files, and I buy a fair bit of second hand vinyl. I also have a paid Spotify subscription, and a hard drive with all of my CDs ripped on to audio file, which I stream to the hifi. For a small number of artists, I'll just buy the FLACs from Bandcamp, or wherever.
I kept all my CDs, but they are filed away in folders, and I haven't actually played one in years. I prefer not to buy CDs, and will only buy them now if vinyl (with download code) is not available.
Probably 75% of my daily listening is Spotify on the phone, though.
Old music, vinyl because it reminds me of trying to learn licks from my dad's Cream records back in the day. Somehow comforting.
The (lots of) CDs i still have but they're strictly for decorating the sitting room and I'm not sure that if I wanted to play one I actually could given that there's no player in the house.
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Streaming, and Radio. You forgot radio.
Streaming sucks in the UAE so I wouldn't even consider it.
Thanks for your responses to my music question. The results, with input from a variety of social media sources are:
And although I forgot to ask, people volunteered
A number of people said that they listen by streaming, but sometimes buy Vinyl or CDs (which can remain unopened) if they want to support a band.
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/72424/
CD. Thinned the collection massively this year, but still buy the odd CD.
USB? not sure what you mean here? Mates sharing music files? The odd time yeah.
Download. Yeah. Again, I'd give money to bands that deserve it, and like to have offline files.
Streaming. All the time, when I'm working online.
Streaming doesn't feel the same
My hearing is now shot, so I don't "consume" any music any more. However I can still enjoy lots of stuff that I already know in my head, just from memory, so I do still "listen" to music.
And I know intervals, so I can usually work out chord sequences, which is fun in itself.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I prefer owning something physical.
I'd always listen to digital music doing other things, walking the dog, shopping, etc. I'm still a fan of the album, no matter the format.
In the car 90% radio spoken word and 10% playing ripped CDs
I find it hard to distinguish between the higher quality streaming services, (typically CD quality FLAC) and CD's ripped to WAV and stored on local NAS
Took me a while to embrace the Spotify generation but I now use Apple music, I keep meaning to get myself a turn table so I can still buy a few select albums on vinyl but space doesn't allow at the moment!
When I do listen to music it's mostly in headphones now, but I have Sonos setup in the house that I mainly use to play stuff I have copied from my CD collection to a hard drive. Even then though, about 20% of my Sonos use is probably streamed from Apple too.
I used to love buying CDs but I think I've bought 3 in the last year. Maybe half a dozen the years before that...
I was about the last man standing among my mates who still bought CDs, even a hardcore music collector guy I know, who used to spend hundreds a month on CDs has stopped and only buys special edition stuff now.