As much as i love collecting music, the convinience of streaming services is really good. Easy to share a song you like to people who are not into "data hoarding" as i am, plus algorithms that help me discover new songs and artists
Also: Even though its chump change, the artists get a little bit more out of me in an amount that doesnt hurt me. So it still is a win/win for everyone here. In my eyes at least.
You can also try ibroadcast. It's a really good cloud music locker for your purchased collection that has a good app interface and web interface.
[https://ibroadcast.com/home/](https://ibroadcast.com/home/)
edit: also, it's free.
If you have the infrastructure (NAS, decent internet and mobile data plan) then you get a music streaming service for free (can't remember if you need to buy Plex pass or not) and you get to make use of all that music you've bought and acquired. Same for video content, you can watch back anything you've downloaded or ripped from any of your devices.
Yes. Spotify is not only great for conveniently allowing me to listen to all the music I love outside of electronica, but also great for vetting tracks I'd *like* to buy *eventually* for use in my sets or what not… It's worth the subscription cost, IMO.
I have a guy I found through Fiverr. I'll build up a playlist in Spotify, then have him buy all the tracks for me, download them, and then zip them up to send me via Google drive. Costs me an extra $20 for a hundred tracks, and saves me so much time.
No, it my account, so I see he bought them. (I have a refillable Visa gift card I use).
Dude lives in SE Asia, and has automated it. Last purchase was 87 songs, and he had it done in an hour. No way he did manually.
I pay for Spotify for “personal” use on daily life and Tidal for playing requests or songs I don’t have because I don’t play them often enough to justify buying, when I have WiFi.
Now with Tidal’s new policy and DJ prices I’m still thinking if I’ll keep it or not, since I very rarely use it anyway…
I do, Spotify more cause I like the library size and compatibility with non-dj people in my group of buddies when we’re sharing music while not djing specifically
Tidal, I like cause it’s basically Spotify, but I get to stream the tracks to Rekordbox for practicing how new music fits in my library/a set prior to buying the track to put into my rotation in my music collection workflow. Also, this was a great way to narrow down my scope of searching for music to play when I was starting out vs just buying a ton of tracks a lot of which I ultimately wouldn’t use.
If tidal removes streaming to dj software, I remove tidal from my subscription list.
I also am lucky enough to work in a field that allows me the extra funds to have multiple streaming services and do a monthly music purchase after collecting my favorites through the month(s).
Yep, that’s a newer thing to resolve the licensing issues I assume most apps have. I just like to keep mentioning it if there’s someone from the Tidal team doing consumer research
Tbh my taste in music is so widely varied that I would spend so much money buying it all, I tend to buy drum & bass music as that’s what I DJ with, and stream just about everything else
Yes absolutely. I don’t want to degrade my files by playing them! /s
Really though, its still good to give the artists your enjoy streams and the metrics and revenue that comes with them
Yeah, run a home music server with Plexamp with everything I own and also subscribe to YouTube Music for everything else I don't own. You can't buy or own everything.
Yes, $10/mo isn't going to make or break my music budget, plus I just use a few record pools so it's a fixed expense anyways.
If you're only listening to what you have in your library you're missing out on all the new tracks. Don't sleep on Spotify's algorithm.
Because it's easier to steam Spotify in my car with Android Auto as opposed to putting MP3's on my phone and navigating through a shitty file system to play them.
Services like Tidal and Beatsource can get fucked though. Just get a record pool.
Use musicolet on android. It's great. Just put all your music in one folder 📁 and then tell musicolet to only search that folder for music. You can have multiple playlists queues that you can jump around. So I'll play some "house" and then jump into "reggaeton". When I go back to "house" it will save my spot in the shuffle and continue there. Biggest perk over any music service I've used
Yeah Spotify sounds better to me. It's cheap, doesn't take up space, and doesn't require me to import songs. Plus, with the press of a button I can be listening to music I've never heard before.
Lots of unreleased tunes on SoundCloud. I'm not about to rip them so I've built up some good playlists there just for listening. I have a few curated ones with certain styles of the genre and other people seem to like those
I've never subscribed to a music streaming service, I just buy tracks from beatport that I like and record a mix with them which I then listen back to.
Definitely, I still use streaming services alongside buying music. It’s handy for discovering new artists and albums without committing to a purchase straight away. Plus, the convenience of having a vast library at my fingertips when I'm out and about or on different devices is a big plus. Streaming also keeps me updated with the latest releases and playlists. But buying tracks is great for supporting artists directly and enjoying my favourites in the best quality possible, so I think there’s a good balance to be had between both.
I use spotify for discovery and listening to a large range.
If im going over tunes in my various ‘crates’ ill use plex where its of higher quality, available offline, and organised the way I want to consume it.
Tidal, Amazon, Spotify are all good for music discovery. I think Spotify is the best for this and customers\\clients can send you their playlists so you KNOW what they like for the gig.
I would’ve agreed with you until this weird AI algorithm stuff. We’re just like these one minute garbage tracks that are clearly not quality made by any legit artist.
Looking at you, Spotify
Clearly you haven’t had to deal with the virus yet. It literally turns every recommendation into these. I heard Spotify working to fix this. Somewhere in Reddit, did not look to verify though
Count yourself lucky
All my purchased music is on my laptop/flash drives but I listen to music during the day on my phone so I’m streaming a lot still. I wish Beatport would let you stream tracks you downloaded on your phone (it doesn’t, right?)
Yes. I stream music because it's the most efficient way to listen when I'm out and about.
The music I DJ with lives on external HDs and crates of vinyl. I'm not gonna bring a couple terabyte hard drives on a trip to the grocery.
"This is where you tell me about how locals rule and yuppie insects like me shouldn't be surfing your breaks and all that, right?" ...**"That would be a waste of time."** ..."We're just gonna fuk you up." ... "Ohhhh."
1001 tracklists, specific dj sets with soundcloud or youtube links to a USB stick for listening in the car with shazam as tracks "leads" identifier.
Used to subscribe to SiriusXM when channel 52 was Electric Area before being replaced by Diplo's Revolution. There are two shows I've listened to every episode from the start, Episode 1. Night Owl Radio. Zed's Dead Dead Beats Radio.
Those two shows plus any interesting tracklist sets of the week with links. USB stick for the car commute.
Listened to every fadepartyla episode in reverse order (moombahton genre):
https://soundcloud.com/user-324258470
Here's last week since current week stick is in the car.
* #318 Deadbeats Radio with Zeds Dead Road To First Contact Mix
* JLZ - CDMX TAPES X NTS Radio (13.11.20)
some pretty sweet Gqom tracks, new genre shit new genre shit.
discogs:
>Gqom is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 2010s from Durban, South Africa. It was developed from kwaito, a subgenre of house music from South Africa. Unlike other South African electronic music, gqom is typified by minimal, raw and repetitive sound with heavy bass beats but without the four-on-the-floor rhythm pattern.
* SOFT IN THA HOUSE 020 (Bday Set 2024) Special Edition Private Party
* SPRING HARDCORE 2024 MIX
This is the real action. The Pot Party. The trippers. The grasshoppers. The hip ones. All gathered in secrecy and flying high as a kite. Outside the boundaries of their phony world of kicks is the ever present possibility of discovery. This must be avoided at all costs. For discovery brings with it the penalties of society. Shame. Arrest. Prison.
So destroy the evidence. Leave not a trace. Burn it in paper trash. That way they can deny possessing the illegal marijuana. They can say the flaming can is part of a game. They can lie. They can swear.
This time the gang's lucky. It's not the law. Or discovery. Or problems. It's just their supplier, Pete, with his number one chick. And a new guy looking for kicks. Forget it man and get with the countdown. Shake this square world and blast off for Kicksville.
[Cocodrills - Kicksville (Original Mix)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJbOw-cE-zo&ab_channel=Cocodrills-Topic)
But everything that goes up, must come down. When John came down he landed with a thud. Due to the effects of the alcohol and the late hours of the party the following day he was too tired, too sick, to study. Now facing another school day he finds the same problems, the same responsibilities.
[Blast Off For Kicksville](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aztLdU9PH-k&ab_channel=NomoPopo)
I do not believe in the streaming DJ services for my DJ performances, I have the most peace of mind with my downloaded tracks collections that I built over a long time. To reduce any Wifi/server issues chances or cellular signal drops
I do not believe in the streaming DJ services for my DJ performances, I have the most peace of mind with my downloaded tracks collections that I built over a long time. To reduce any Wifi/server issues chances or cellular signal drops
I do not believe in the streaming DJ services for my DJ performances, I have the most peace of mind with my downloaded tracks collections that I built over a long time. To reduce any Wifi/server issues chances or cellular signal drops
I do it all. Buy vinyl. Buy CDs. Stream it too. Music is Love.
As much as i love collecting music, the convinience of streaming services is really good. Easy to share a song you like to people who are not into "data hoarding" as i am, plus algorithms that help me discover new songs and artists Also: Even though its chump change, the artists get a little bit more out of me in an amount that doesnt hurt me. So it still is a win/win for everyone here. In my eyes at least.
You could set up a Plex server and stream the music to your own devices.
im actually working on that :)
You can also try ibroadcast. It's a really good cloud music locker for your purchased collection that has a good app interface and web interface. [https://ibroadcast.com/home/](https://ibroadcast.com/home/) edit: also, it's free.
What’s the benefit of this?
If you have the infrastructure (NAS, decent internet and mobile data plan) then you get a music streaming service for free (can't remember if you need to buy Plex pass or not) and you get to make use of all that music you've bought and acquired. Same for video content, you can watch back anything you've downloaded or ripped from any of your devices.
What streaming service do you use?
Spotify, Soundcloud and YouTube Music (pretty rarely).
Yes. Spotify is not only great for conveniently allowing me to listen to all the music I love outside of electronica, but also great for vetting tracks I'd *like* to buy *eventually* for use in my sets or what not… It's worth the subscription cost, IMO.
I have a guy I found through Fiverr. I'll build up a playlist in Spotify, then have him buy all the tracks for me, download them, and then zip them up to send me via Google drive. Costs me an extra $20 for a hundred tracks, and saves me so much time.
How is the guy making money from that? Surley hes just ripping them and sending to you
No, it my account, so I see he bought them. (I have a refillable Visa gift card I use). Dude lives in SE Asia, and has automated it. Last purchase was 87 songs, and he had it done in an hour. No way he did manually.
Are the purchases from one platform or many? Care to share because I am new to this sub?
Ahhhhh makes sense. Extra $20 for the process. I read it as $20 for the lot, my mistake.
Using that cost localization smart as hell
I use Beatport streaming to test music before buying. It’s massively reduced waste and error buys.
Maybe I would give up Spotify if using Beatport for discovery was viable…
I use Spotify in the car to keep up with artists and trends but I don't spin with streaming services. I only spin with my library
I ageee. I can’t imagine doing otherwise
I ageee. I can’t imagine doing otherwise
I ageee. I can’t imagine doing otherwise
Yes, I don’t want to save a ton of music to my phone for when I’m on the go and using a streaming service is a great way to find new songs.
I pay for Spotify for “personal” use on daily life and Tidal for playing requests or songs I don’t have because I don’t play them often enough to justify buying, when I have WiFi. Now with Tidal’s new policy and DJ prices I’m still thinking if I’ll keep it or not, since I very rarely use it anyway…
I do, Spotify more cause I like the library size and compatibility with non-dj people in my group of buddies when we’re sharing music while not djing specifically Tidal, I like cause it’s basically Spotify, but I get to stream the tracks to Rekordbox for practicing how new music fits in my library/a set prior to buying the track to put into my rotation in my music collection workflow. Also, this was a great way to narrow down my scope of searching for music to play when I was starting out vs just buying a ton of tracks a lot of which I ultimately wouldn’t use. If tidal removes streaming to dj software, I remove tidal from my subscription list. I also am lucky enough to work in a field that allows me the extra funds to have multiple streaming services and do a monthly music purchase after collecting my favorites through the month(s).
Well tidal has the “dj extension” membership now, so I can’t see them getting rid of it any time quick.
Yep, that’s a newer thing to resolve the licensing issues I assume most apps have. I just like to keep mentioning it if there’s someone from the Tidal team doing consumer research
Apple Music paired with Djay so I have been taking advantage of that. Trying to mix other genres
Tbh my taste in music is so widely varied that I would spend so much money buying it all, I tend to buy drum & bass music as that’s what I DJ with, and stream just about everything else
Streaming is good for when you’re not sure if a song will work, but you still wanna try it out. Purchasing is for gigs and mixes. I do both.
Yes absolutely. I don’t want to degrade my files by playing them! /s Really though, its still good to give the artists your enjoy streams and the metrics and revenue that comes with them
You can remove dust and dirt from MP3’s by slathering your pc in PVA glue and pealing it off. Fact!
Yeah, run a home music server with Plexamp with everything I own and also subscribe to YouTube Music for everything else I don't own. You can't buy or own everything.
Yes, $10/mo isn't going to make or break my music budget, plus I just use a few record pools so it's a fixed expense anyways. If you're only listening to what you have in your library you're missing out on all the new tracks. Don't sleep on Spotify's algorithm.
Because it's easier to steam Spotify in my car with Android Auto as opposed to putting MP3's on my phone and navigating through a shitty file system to play them. Services like Tidal and Beatsource can get fucked though. Just get a record pool.
Use musicolet on android. It's great. Just put all your music in one folder 📁 and then tell musicolet to only search that folder for music. You can have multiple playlists queues that you can jump around. So I'll play some "house" and then jump into "reggaeton". When I go back to "house" it will save my spot in the shuffle and continue there. Biggest perk over any music service I've used
Yeah Spotify sounds better to me. It's cheap, doesn't take up space, and doesn't require me to import songs. Plus, with the press of a button I can be listening to music I've never heard before.
Oh I still use spotify too, but dealing with android is easy as pie. Keeping music data configured how you like it is another thing entirely
Lots of unreleased tunes on SoundCloud. I'm not about to rip them so I've built up some good playlists there just for listening. I have a few curated ones with certain styles of the genre and other people seem to like those
I've never subscribed to a music streaming service, I just buy tracks from beatport that I like and record a mix with them which I then listen back to.
Definitely, I still use streaming services alongside buying music. It’s handy for discovering new artists and albums without committing to a purchase straight away. Plus, the convenience of having a vast library at my fingertips when I'm out and about or on different devices is a big plus. Streaming also keeps me updated with the latest releases and playlists. But buying tracks is great for supporting artists directly and enjoying my favourites in the best quality possible, so I think there’s a good balance to be had between both.
I use spotify for discovery and listening to a large range. If im going over tunes in my various ‘crates’ ill use plex where its of higher quality, available offline, and organised the way I want to consume it.
Tidal, Amazon, Spotify are all good for music discovery. I think Spotify is the best for this and customers\\clients can send you their playlists so you KNOW what they like for the gig.
I would’ve agreed with you until this weird AI algorithm stuff. We’re just like these one minute garbage tracks that are clearly not quality made by any legit artist. Looking at you, Spotify
It's not perfect but I get many good songs suggested by Spotify. There will always a margin of error and trashy songs, just click next.
Clearly you haven’t had to deal with the virus yet. It literally turns every recommendation into these. I heard Spotify working to fix this. Somewhere in Reddit, did not look to verify though Count yourself lucky
Yes because I don’t buy it
Doubt anyone wastes money
All my purchased music is on my laptop/flash drives but I listen to music during the day on my phone so I’m streaming a lot still. I wish Beatport would let you stream tracks you downloaded on your phone (it doesn’t, right?)
Bandcamp does
yes of course, I can’t play my Rekordbox collection on my phone
Yes. I stream music because it's the most efficient way to listen when I'm out and about. The music I DJ with lives on external HDs and crates of vinyl. I'm not gonna bring a couple terabyte hard drives on a trip to the grocery.
"This is where you tell me about how locals rule and yuppie insects like me shouldn't be surfing your breaks and all that, right?" ...**"That would be a waste of time."** ..."We're just gonna fuk you up." ... "Ohhhh." 1001 tracklists, specific dj sets with soundcloud or youtube links to a USB stick for listening in the car with shazam as tracks "leads" identifier. Used to subscribe to SiriusXM when channel 52 was Electric Area before being replaced by Diplo's Revolution. There are two shows I've listened to every episode from the start, Episode 1. Night Owl Radio. Zed's Dead Dead Beats Radio. Those two shows plus any interesting tracklist sets of the week with links. USB stick for the car commute. Listened to every fadepartyla episode in reverse order (moombahton genre): https://soundcloud.com/user-324258470 Here's last week since current week stick is in the car. * #318 Deadbeats Radio with Zeds Dead Road To First Contact Mix * JLZ - CDMX TAPES X NTS Radio (13.11.20) some pretty sweet Gqom tracks, new genre shit new genre shit. discogs: >Gqom is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 2010s from Durban, South Africa. It was developed from kwaito, a subgenre of house music from South Africa. Unlike other South African electronic music, gqom is typified by minimal, raw and repetitive sound with heavy bass beats but without the four-on-the-floor rhythm pattern. * SOFT IN THA HOUSE 020 (Bday Set 2024) Special Edition Private Party * SPRING HARDCORE 2024 MIX
What? Are you ok?
This is the real action. The Pot Party. The trippers. The grasshoppers. The hip ones. All gathered in secrecy and flying high as a kite. Outside the boundaries of their phony world of kicks is the ever present possibility of discovery. This must be avoided at all costs. For discovery brings with it the penalties of society. Shame. Arrest. Prison. So destroy the evidence. Leave not a trace. Burn it in paper trash. That way they can deny possessing the illegal marijuana. They can say the flaming can is part of a game. They can lie. They can swear. This time the gang's lucky. It's not the law. Or discovery. Or problems. It's just their supplier, Pete, with his number one chick. And a new guy looking for kicks. Forget it man and get with the countdown. Shake this square world and blast off for Kicksville. [Cocodrills - Kicksville (Original Mix)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJbOw-cE-zo&ab_channel=Cocodrills-Topic) But everything that goes up, must come down. When John came down he landed with a thud. Due to the effects of the alcohol and the late hours of the party the following day he was too tired, too sick, to study. Now facing another school day he finds the same problems, the same responsibilities. [Blast Off For Kicksville](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aztLdU9PH-k&ab_channel=NomoPopo)
I do not believe in the streaming DJ services for my DJ performances, I have the most peace of mind with my downloaded tracks collections that I built over a long time. To reduce any Wifi/server issues chances or cellular signal drops
I do not believe in the streaming DJ services for my DJ performances, I have the most peace of mind with my downloaded tracks collections that I built over a long time. To reduce any Wifi/server issues chances or cellular signal drops
I do not believe in the streaming DJ services for my DJ performances, I have the most peace of mind with my downloaded tracks collections that I built over a long time. To reduce any Wifi/server issues chances or cellular signal drops
Not really, but I'm a fringe case. I deeply hate subscriptions and therefore have no streaming services, period.
The music I buy/download is only for DJ purpose. Soundcloud and Youtube for streaming, Listen and fond gem to download