How do you keep and listen to music these days?

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Vinyl and CD. I like to feel that I have actually got a physical item for my money and really enjoy reading the sleeve notes and admiring the artwork and photographs. Some Vinyl and CDs come with digital download codes which is helpful but I prefer the real item every time. I also feel proud of my collection- something you can't really get if its purely virtual.

 

[Bozza]

We've got three Sonos players in the house and we're certain to add more. We use those to stream Deezer premium. We were a Spotify house, but the last Sonos player we bought came with a year free Deezer access so we're using that, saving us £120 over the year compared to Spotify.

As it happens, the Deezer integration with Sonos is a lot better than Spotify so we might well stick with it when the free year expires.

On my phone it's a mixture of Deezer (with synced offline playlists, where required) and my own purchased music which we store in iTunes Match.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Cheap CDs from Amazon.

 

[dannyboy]

I download my music for free from soulseek or the excellent ektoplasm (im a psytrance man) then put the tunes on an external drive which is connected to myt sonos system.. from there I put the tunes on my phone and tablet for holidays etc connected to a bose soundlink 3 Bluetooth speaker (brilliant) . for the car I burn them to cd

 

[jgmcdee]

Another vote for Spotify. I've tried a few services and Spotify seems to have the best selection of tracks and easiest listening. Desktop, laptop, mobile, media server... easy to use pretty much anywhere and with my kids both wanting to have their own accounts the family deal is pretty good (an additional £5/month for additional accounts).

I'm at the stage where I'm going to put my CDs away as nowadays they're just dust magnets.

 

[Normal Rob]

Spotify. Just superb, and very few limitations on repertoire. Can listen to almost any music in the world.

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Got Spotify premium in December and don't know how I coped before.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Lossless digital files on 'home Cloud', loads of vinyl stored away.

Accessed via phone Bluetoothing and home sound system.

 

[Gazwag]

So can you get just about anything on vinyl or is it just specialist stuff? Really surprised to hear you say this btw, I thought vinyl was very limited these days

You might think that but just before I got home from work today I'm sure they said Vinyl sales were at an 18 year high at the moment

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

You might think that but just before I got home from work today I'm sure they said Vinyl sales were at an 18 year high at the moment

They are but it is still a small % of total music sales.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Aaah, thems was the days

 

[The Modfather]

CDs in the car, IPod at work and vinyl when I get an hour to myself at home.

 

[studio150]

Physical copies all the way, tend to listen through headphones to avoid arguments that I am playing the music too loudly. I am very much old school and like a product to hold and enjoy. In the car usually DAB either Planet Rock or Absolute 70s.

 

[beorhthelm]

a rather old creative mp3 player that does a job and youtube. other services just dont seem to cover the artists and tracks i want to listen to, though it's becoming a chore though with adverts creeping deeper into the collection.

 

[MF'84]

Physical CD's for me; never had any interest in downloading / ripping / Spotify etc. Very rarely use public transport for any length of time (or on my own), 6 disk changer in the car plus glovebox CD space and good quality Hi-Fi at home so no need for any kind of digital player. I like to 'see' my collection too.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Probably 99% physical (mainly CDs, a fair bit of original vinyl, even some cassettes somewhere) with the odd Amazon download thrown in.

Music is currently managed by MediaMonkey which allows you to rip at fairly high quality. Car audio is either Radio 2, CD or memory card. Listen to DAB radio at home (Planet Rock, TeamRock) and at work / travelling I have a Sony MP3 player (would never want to be tied to an iPod).

Having seen many failures of computer disks and memory cards over the years, I still like to keep the physical music as my backup should the 'electronic' options go wrong.

 

[daveinprague]

PC & phone.