I’m in a dilemma, I think ownership of media is important, but the convenience of Spotify and the algorithm of new music that it suggests has helped me find amazing artists that I wouldn’t have heard of otherwise.

Fellow sailors, what are your thoughts, and how do you personally listen to music?

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Maybe its a generational thing but I prefer having a Plex / Plexamp serveur with all my music as FLAC on my home server. I can better curate my collection and it’s available everywhere.

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Plexamp is awesome, and the UI/UX is gorgeous in my opinion!

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I absolutely agree. Android Auto / Apple Car Play (or whatever the name) is awesome as well

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Exactly how I do it, Plexamp plays nicely across all my devices/car

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I had 500 songs downloaded for offline listening, but had an issue with my carrier in the middle of a work day which left me without an internet connection… And this freaking app didn’t let me listen to the songs I already had downloaded. Noped right out of there.

Dude that sucks! This is one of my greatest concerns as we enter web 3.0 and give control over to companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.

I now use this library of FLAC files on Music Bee, a free software that looks awesome. When I connect my phone to my PC, Music Bee converts all songs to high bitrate MP3 and syncs with the phone - I then use an open source music player to listen to them.

It must be a nice feeling having high quality flac files that you can play without any DRM nonsense when you want and how you want. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

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Sounds like a great solution. How do you find new artists? One of the advantages of a streaming service is the recommendations . . I’ve found a lot of new music that way.

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Spotify to find artists

Plex/VLC/winamp to continue listening after discovering them.

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Nice middle-ground!

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Local library. I don’t want to pay for things I don’t own. Streaming services also can remove/ disable music any time. I also don’t need recommendation algorithms I think they are biased. I can easily discover new artists on blogs

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Nice! Any suggestions on what blogs I should go to for some recommendations?

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Streaming for discovery, private tracker to get it in FLAC.

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