What music do you listen to and where do you listen to it?

[lovely_xm07]

I’m just interested to see. I have YouTube Music and I pretty much listen to everything. However, my favorites are R&B/Soul, electronic, and Hip/Hop. 😁 You can also use this thread to talk about you favorite genres/artists and just rant about them.

Edited May 29 by lovely_xm07

[Squirrel Combat]

I don't even dick around with streaming music. I either buy the music on CD, vinyl, or MP3, or I can't find the version I like for purchase then I pirate it off of YouTube.

 

[Olallieberry]

I use multiple ones. Too bad the first question is single-choice.

 

As far as genres, I checked everything but Country, Folk and Classical. I like classical but it takes more of an effort to listen to it than I often want to invest.

[daveb]

I usually either listen to music I ripped to my laptop or phone, or I listen to one of the local radio stations if I am driving around locally.  

I guess it's mostly rock or pop from the 1950s on through to the present, but probably mostly stuff from the 60s to 80s. I also listen to classical music, R&B, Soul, Jazz, Folk, International, movie soundtracks, and other stuff.

[Ceebs]

What if I use more than one platform? I don't know which option to choose and that question isn't multiple choice like the other. Anyway, most of what I listen to is from my collection that I own, some of it ripped from my CDs or ones my parents have and loaded onto one of my old laptops many years ago and then onto iTunes and onto my phone (and transferred to many new phones since), and then there's a shitload of stuff I've purchased through iTunes. That makes up the bulk of my listening. My fiancé and I also share a family plan on Tidal that I use a decent amount. And I still have Spotify, also a family plan that I share with my ex and my mum (not sure if my mum even uses it, tbh). I'm the one paying for it and since my ex and I are still close friends I don't want to cut him off haha, plus sometimes there's stuff on there that I can't find on Tidal. I use Spotify to listen to stand-up comedy, too.

 

I also still sometimes listen to vinyl, cassettes and CDs.

 

Genres... the majority of what I listen to probably falls under the following categories or similar ones: classic rock, indie rock, contemporary rock, folk rock, traditional folk, contemporary folk, classical, pop, blues, jazz, big band, swing (I guess those last two are types of jazz, really), grunge, alternative... some indie stuff that I don't know what category to put in... there's a bit of punk and reggae... even a few rap and country artists, which are genres I otherwise don't listen to and mostly don't care for (apparently my brain found some exceptions). Oh and some Bollywood tunes.

 

Edit: Oh and I use TuneIn on the Alexa device in my kitchen to stream a few non-local radio stations, and I have an AM/FM radio for local radio (does anyone listen to AM now, though? 😂). Yep, I do still listen to the radio.

[CassIsSarcastic]

We all have excellent music taste, clearly. 😁

[blunose2772]

I have Spotify most of the stuff I listen to is Pop and Country with Broadway musical soundtracks mixed in. 

[kelico]

I use Spotify, and I listen to mainly kpop/rock and jpop/rock with some indie folk mixed in. 

[Gloomy]

I voted Spotify since that’s what I use most right now, but I also have SiriusXM in my car and sometimes I just listen to music on YouTube.

 

As for genres, a screenshot of what I voted is probably easier than typing them out lol.

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[Guest]

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[Karret]

I primarily use Youtube.

 

I listen to a lot of metal, but like I really love when metal is fused with other stuff~ My current song I'm listening to:

 

It's got a little rap, a little electronic, a lot of metal, a bit of pop and some folk/world elements.

 

Fusion genres with screamy rawr rawrs are just my shit so much. XD

[Broken Doll]

I listen to Punk rock, Indie rock, R&B, Emo, Gospel, K-Rap and Kpop. 

 

 

I use Spotify most of the time. 

[Lovebird]

I use a mix of YouTube, Spotify, physical CDs, and Musicbee.

I listen to a bit of everything -- but I've been on an underground rap and black metal / DSBM kick of late. 

[Autumn ace]

I use YouTube music more than anything else, but I also use Apple Music a lot 

 

I listen to pop, a little bit of country, indie music, and I really like singers and songwriters 

[Destranix]

I'm listening to music from YouTube. But usually not streaming, but instead I download the songs to listen to them offline.

I'm mostly listening to film/serie or video game music, but also a few other, mostly orchestra.

[Destranix]

6 hours ago, Squirrel Combat said:

then I pirate it off of YouTube

AFAIK it's not pirating if it's legally uploaded on YouTube. But might depend on your countries laws.

[everywhere and nowhere]

I have a very strong preference for music on physical carriers. For me the "graphical and textual 'envelope' of music" is its integral part, so having downloaded files doesn't feel like "having the album" for me. I need to have it in a tangible format, to be able to look at the graphics... I'm not absolutely averse to downloads if a CD or vinyl is unavailable or prohibitively expensive, but then I always print myself the artwork - based on original, but generally, made by myself... (For example, more text fits on a vinyl back cover than one page of CD accompanying paper, so when printing myself the artwork to an Erkut Taçkın CD, I split the text - list of musicians on the back of CD cover, track list with "music by... / lyrics by..." on the inlay card.) Just recently I finished my most ambitious project - "Anadolu Pop" by Moğollar with an eight-page booklet. I used a text about history of the band and some photos (and those guys invoke a lot of clothes envy in me, particularly in the beginning they wore very fancy hippie clothes - sometimes a la "Sergeant Pepper"-era Beatles, generally they got really close to a commercial success in the West). Generally, it was inspired by official reissues with band history and/or album history, like I have in case of Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, the Byrds, the Doors, Trees (British psychedelic folk-rock band, very recommended - two albums, "Garden of Jane Delawney" and "On the Shore") or even Erkin Koray (well, in this kind it was not exactly an "official reissue", more of a high-quality bootleg).

I listen first of all to psychedelic rock (both "original" hippie music and contemporary neopsychedelia - just in its rock and folk-rock variant, I can't stand electronic psychedelia such as "psytrance" - for me it doesn't sound trance-y, but annoying) and ethnic music, also some classical music (I particularly like impressionism in music, for example Debussy or Ravel) and experimental jazz, often with a psychedelic and/or ethnic touch. My preference, unsurprisingly, is the result of my psychedelic fascination - I started exploring this kind of music as a teenager, to try to get at least a glimpse of the experience which was, at that time, unavailable to me... I have a large collection of CDs and vinyls, and last year my exploration pretty accidentally lead me to Turkish psychedelia - and I got so fascinated that I started learning Turkish because of the combined influence of my musical fascination and my underlying interest in linguistics, and developed a new obsessive interest in itself...

[asexualien]

I listen to pretty much everything. I use Apple Music, but I would love to find an app to download music like I had on my old iPod/mp3 players. I’m tired of paying for Apple Music when I don’t use it as much as I should. Also, there will be times songs would get taken off or they aren’t on there at all. 

[m38]

i'm not a fan of streaming platforms as most of them come with ads and subscriptions, so i prefer good old way of downloading everything and listening via music player app (my fave one is aimp).

i even used to have a 32gb memory card in my phone just for storing downloaded music.

 

as for music genres, these days i listen to EDM, phonk, darkwave, and a bit of hard rock.

[Atreides]

Regular YouTube. I don’t see the point of paying for YouTube Music when every selling point can be done entirely for free with minimal effort. I sometimes use Apple Music just because I sometimes find vouchers for free months on there.

 

Regarding music genres, I listen to a wee bit of everything, really. From folk to heavy metal, and from jazz to synthwave.

And I hate to admit this, but many recent additions to my playlist are due to cool music I heard in TikTok-style edits… Peak Gen-Z moment I guess

[Frameshift07]

1. What music platform do you use?

 

Often YouTube, sometimes Spotify, maybe I'll resort to Discogs and my turntable gramophone if what I want to listen to can't be found on the internet

 

2. What music genre do you listen to?

 

Whatever tickles my brain

[iff]

For me, I listen to music via BBC 6Music physical cds, some vinyl and mp3s (mainly from bandcamp or iTunes, some were from now defunct Google Music)

 

Type wise - I am a good bit varied. I listen to folk, electro, eleectro pop, pop, jazz, rock, hip hop, r&b, many others

[Guest]

I mostly have a nightcore mix and a synthewave mix. I also listen to some chill music without vocals, like "if the trees could talk" (artist) or "figments" (album). I sometimes listent to muse, and I have a Wolf and Raven mix because they're kind of their own sound. IDK if there's other artists or albums to add that are enough like it... but they're synthwave too. I actually have some of their songs in the synthwave mix just caue I like them that much oh, and right now I'm listening to porcupine tree. 

 

I used to listen to a lot more, but I don't anymore. Nightcore is what I listen to the most, although I've listened to it so much that I'm a little tired of it. To be honest, the only reason I listen to anything else is because I got tired of it. Sometimes when I'm listening to something ... something's missing. I don't know why nightcore clicks so much for me. I'm not a very romantic person, but I enjoy the emotional lyrics anyway, so it's a little odd because in theory the lyrics should turn me away. I don't get it. But the instrumental sounds of nightcore are very much what I like, and the tempo is good too, and the fact that it has lyrics is what makes it better than sythewave for me. I want through like three years of synthewave only, then I've been listening to nightcore for over a year now.

[Dagomir]

On 12/20/2024 at 5:40 AM, Karret said:

I primarily use Youtube.

 

I listen to a lot of metal, but like I really love when metal is fused with other stuff~ My current song I'm listening to:

This, both when it comes to YT and the metal + influences from other genres. Awesome song, btw  

 

I use YouTube, usually via Last.fm, which allows me to build up my "recently listened" music list. I've had it since 2007, so it shows quite a bit of history. Except, many of the bands I listened to then, are still prominently present on my list today. If anything, I'm just adding new artists. 

[Karret]

1 minute ago, Piotrek said:

This, both when it comes to YT and the metal + influences from other genres. Awesome song, btw  

 

I use YouTube, usually via Last.fm, which allows me to build up my "recently listened" music list. I've had since 2007, so it shows quite a bit of history. Except, many of the bands I listened to then, are still prominently present on my list today. If anything, I'm just adding new artists. 

Riiight? Bloodywood is awesome, Babymetal is awesome... the collab was fantastic. * w* <33333

 

I wish I kept up with more stuff like last FM, I just save playlists on youtube. :'D sdkblasdkufjalsukfjg

[Sally]

I stream jazz from KKJZ K-JAZZ in California. 

[Starfarer]

I use Spotify to stream music. I mostly listen to pop and rock, I guess, but I don't know much about music genres.

 

I don't listen to rap, hip hop, or classical, or much country.

 

I also only really listen to music with lyrics.

[Ortac]

As a general rule I don't stream music, I am very old fashioned, I listen to mp3 files which I have stored on my desktop PC and on my iPod nano!

These are files that I have either downloaded or converted from physical CDs to mp3 on my computer.

 

I don't really understand why this way of listening to music has so rapidly gone out of fashion in favor of streaming, because unlike with streaming, you don't need to be online to play your music, and you only have to pay once to buy the CD or mp3 track that you want. You don't need an ongoing subscription or have to listen to adverts as an alternative.

 

I also find the iPod much more convenient than using my smartphone to store and play music as it is much smaller, lighter and easier to operate. Smartphones are getting bigger and bigger these days and I would rather carry my little iPod into the gym rather than my bulky smartphone.

 

It feels like I only bought my iPod nano yesterday, so it feels so weird when people remark to me that that they haven't seen one of those for years and they consider them to be retro! I hope the one I have lasts for a long time because they are discontinued and it is irreplaceable.

 

 

[Almighty Rat]

I love jazz, blues, bluegrass, some country, and bluegrass, and have only ever used spotisfy because for some reason I CANNOT figure it Apple Music. Plus, one of my family members gets free Spotify premium as a work bonus, which is cool.

[A User]

I use a mixture of YouTube (normal one) and Spotify and I also download mp3 files of songs i like on my phone to listen offline.

 

My music taste is strange. It mostly leans rock/pop/indie but otherwise i go ham. I listened to Thick of It and found it... alright and listened to Not Like Us and thought that was THE coolest shit ever. 

Then there is me listening to sofia the first songs because unironically goated music right there a lot of songs are head bangers

Also I have a solid amount of classical songs I think are cool but they're like. 5-6 tiles. So idk if that counts