[Closed] STW music media survey

Streaming

Radio

I don’t own any directional cables.

Radio

Youtube

MP3

Streaming.

I think I am fairly late to this though only getting streaming thingys in the last couple of years.

streaming (spotify)

radio

youtube

don't own any physical stuff anymore (apart from the kit to actually make the sound, obvs) but that's just laptop/phone an a bluetooth speaker

Streaming but mainly a large part of 40yrs of music purchases converted to mp3.
Much vinyl and CD converted. I didn't bother with the cassettes.

~50% streaming
~50% radio (6Music) - either streamed or DAB

Occasionally TV - Jools Holland or BBC4
Occasionally CD

Streaming -> DAILY
Radio -> DAILY
CD -> WEEKLY
Vinyl -> FEW TIMES A YEAR
Compact cassette -> ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR

Mostly MP3 players (ie. IPod). Or Mp3 player (VLC) on laptop
CD
Vinyl
Compact cassette
Minidisc
and if it counts as streaming, streaming mp3s off my home NAS. (My ears are old and can't tell the difference between a mp3 played over wi-fi> bluetooth and a CD.)
oh, forgot YouTube occassionally, thats classed as streaming too these days, I think
dammit - since lockdown 6music has been played off an app too to keep me company for a few hours in the morning. Getting sick of that damn "Life is always empty" crap song though!

Streaming (Spotify) & vinyl most often
then radio
CD, cassette & MP3 (from laptop or downloaded from Bandcamp on my phone) about even.

CD

Youtube for discovering

I will never ever give up my CDs, yep said that about vinyl admittedly but listening to my own music is an experience to be savoured and is all encompassing. No irritating background choons in this crib.

Home - 90% Vinyl plus a small amount of streaming (radio shows on mixlr mostly)

Car - Radio

Out and about - ipod

Streaming at home; CD, MP3 and radio when driving. I don't listen to music when out'n'about, cycling etc...

Should answer my own question I guess.

Spotify to discover and review. Then I buy what I like on CD.

I just love the compact disc and the science behind it.

CD, Radio, USB, Casting from iPhone to Stereo.

I listen to 6 music all the time and as they play tunes I like I download them onto my Apple Music playlists

I've still got a turntable and a load of vinyl that gets played once every blue moon. Took my absolutely enormous CD collection down to charity shop a few years back. Probably kept about 100 uber-niche rarities that I didn't think I'd get on streaming services. They're in the loft

CD.
Radio.
Vinyl.

Occasionally YouTube, but not keen.

Streaming and Radio.

I haven't owned any physical media (CDs or DVDs / Blurays) in about 3 years, CDs probably much longer.

I had an MP3 collection for years, but Apple music caught me with their 3 month free trial, doubled down with the Family Plan for £15 and I've never looked back.

It really revolutionised the music I listen to, sometimes I want music from my Youth (90s stuff for the most part) sometimes older, sometimes current stuff etc - buying MP3s for 99p a track I would thrown them into an ever growing pile of music and I'd spend more time skipping songs I was bored of than listening to them.

I've got CarPlay now, the Apple weekly almost random 'Favourites' Playlist is usually good and if I want to drink beer and dance around the kitchen to 70s disco classics I can, and surprisingly often do, turns up a I love a bit of Disco!

100% streaming - Sold all vinyl, CD’s and equipment a couple of years ago now and don’t miss it.

Streaming, got rid of all my CD’s years ago. Mostly Spotify, but I listen to a lot of house music on MixCloud and SoundCloud too.

99% streaming with the other 1% being radio for when someone else is in the car and I don't fancy subjecting them to my taste in music.

Any of you streamers gone Hi-res? Quobuz etc..

mp3 player - various file types
cd
live

edit: radio while cooking if my mp3 player isn't to hand

99% either streaming or radio.

Streaming/Spotify/BBC radio via Yamaha musiccast - to various output sources.
Very occasional CD use these days

Spotify mostly, radio a bit, cd's when in old car, have some vinyl that occasionally get played.

Oh, radio too. 6music mostly. Radio wasn't an option at first. Van only gets fm so radio 2 then or cds.

Radio
Youtube
mp3
vinyl
CD

20% streaming
80% vinyl

6Music in the car, occasionally at home
AAC files ripped from CD or downloads on my phone.
CD.
Zero interest in streaming, already got more music than I can really listen to in the time I have available, more being added all the time - three more albums in the last couple of days, two downloads, one physical.

Streamed either Spotify, soundcloud, mixcloud youtube. Cds. MP3 or flac music off a hard drive or laptop.

CD - most
Vinyl - some
iPod - some
Radio - never
Streaming - never
Live - whenever I can

Streaming most days at work.
Radio every day at work/in the van.
CD's most days in the van.

MP3 from my phone. Apple Music.

I no longer have a 'proper' music set-up. For a few years I was moving around a lot, so transporting physical media became impossible. I bought myself the best portable speakers I could find: https://minirigs.co.uk/speakers/bundles/ and I've stuck with it since.
I also no longer have any books or DVDs.

CD and radio, but mostly CD.

Got 14 linear metres of them with an awful lot from charity shops for 25p each.

I no longer have a ‘proper’ music set-up.

I also no longer have any books or DVDs.

That's plain weird!!

In order, most often first:

MP3 player, Sony NWZ A15
Online radio, FiP
MP3 on phone
Spotify, free version
Cd

Vinyl sits there, waiting to be moved on somehow

6 music mainly, deezer to either musiccast or bluetooth speaker occasionally.

6 Music during the week.

Streaming from Qobuz

All the CD's are ripped @ Lossless and streamed from a server now.

@Binners

You may want to cosset your rarities a bit more as they will degrade if stored poorly. One of my early 90's Prince CD's had rotted under the polycarbonate and was unplayable when I converted the collection around 10 years ago some nice person had left a copy of it lying around on a Swedish Nautical Music site to make good the shortfall. This ruined CD had been stored in the dark in a living room cupboard.

@cinnamon_girl

I thought so too at first. I was a diving instructor in Thailand for a decade, then did similar work in Australia.
It required me to move around a lot, and I was often living in beach huts or similar.

I now have thousands of e-books on my iPad. All my music is on my phone ask I have instant access to thousands more songs. I keep all my movies on a hard drive which I can transfer to my iPad when needed.

It seems kind of pointless owning these things in a physical sense, even now that I'm back in the UK. The one exception I make is games for my PS4 - I still like to keep a hard copy of those.

Vinyl in the lounge (occasionally cds)
Streaming to HiFi in the bedroom or bath
Streaming to headphones on the bike
USB stick to car stereo

I’m exactly the same tbh. No Physical books (other than large reference stuff), music or movies and the majority of games (Switch) are digital with only the big releases bought as physical media. I just don’t see the point in owning the physical product. Waste of space really.

CDs mostly.

MP3’s from laptop (through a Bluetooth speaker).

iPod in the van, cds in the car.

I used to listen to the MP3 player to/from work but it’s really not worth the effort these days.... 🤣

You may want to cosset your rarities a bit more as they will degrade if stored poorly.

Got plenty of 30 year old Cds, show no signs of degradation whatsoever. Is cosseting them keeping them in a cabinet in their cases between plays, as opposed to leaving them on a windowsill, or hanging out in the garden as bird scarers?

radio
streaming
c.d
vinyl

Radio, streaming, MP3, CD, vinyl.

Mostly streaming, although the echo dot has had a lot more use while I’ve been wfh, 6 music and Kerrang radio while Maryanne Hobbs is on.

I’ve still got all my CDs though and will keep buying them on occasion, I bought an Ataris CD of the singer when my band supported him last autumn, although it’s still got the wrapper on and I’ve listened to it loads on Spotify. Still, bought him some lunch for the next day and that’s what it’s all about eh.

Any of you streamers gone Hi-res? Quobuz etc.

I use Tidal and vinyl. Was vinyl only and never bought a CD player as I didn’t like the sound much.
Got into streaming a few years ago but only lo-res, when it started to match the engagement of vinyl I upgraded my old but good pre/power and cheap DAC to an all in one system (Naim Unitiqute 2) which has an app that integrates well with Tidal.
Bit of radio but that’s just background noise.
80% stream, 5% vinyl 15% FM radio.

Streaming 100%. Use iphone to stream Spotify to the 1 Sonos play1 I have left after the wife took the other when we split a few weeks back! Have decided to now replace the wife with a 'proper'ish hifi and have just ordered amp/speakers and a network receiver. Interested in anyone's views of using hi-res providers rather than Spotify - Tidal/Quobuz anyone?

Streaming
YouTube
MP3
CD
Radio

In approximately that order.

I also have a large vinyl collection, but no turntable at the moment.

Streaming and subscription downloading from Play Music
Radio
CDs occasionally and I do still own some vinyl

Working from home I listen to a lot more music during the day but either my hearing has got a lot worse in the last 12 weeks or I'm noticing the lower quality of streamed vs. CDs.

I'm contemplating a CD player, amp and a turntable (plus speakers obvs).

Streaming, vinyl and downloads.  Streaming pays almost nothing to small artists so I'll buy downloads or vinyl direct if I can.  Streaming is great for listening to new stuff though

CD, radio, iTunes in the car.
Radio / radio app at home.

Not a fan of Spotify etc due to the minimal royalties paid to artists, and yes that includes me

CD
Cassette
Streaming
Mp3

All via hifi amp.

You tube for checking stuff out.cds for listening.sometimes youtube.buy alot of my cds from charity shops.

I thought so too at first. I was a diving instructor in Thailand for a decade, then did similar work in Australia.
It required me to move around a lot, and I was often living in beach huts or similar.

I now have thousands of e-books on my iPad. All my music is on my phone ask I have instant access to thousands more songs. I keep all my movies on a hard drive which I can transfer to my iPad when needed.

It seems kind of pointless owning these things in a physical sense, even now that I’m back in the UK. The one exception I make is games for my PS4 – I still like to keep a hard copy of those.

@easily fair enough, that makes sense. Sure, books and CDs/vinyl can take up valuable space at home but personally I would never give these up, not least cos my books tend to have pics and graphs therefore useless on some kind of e-reader.

Vinyl mainly - living room/dining room
Spotify when in kitchen
CD/streaming in study

But mainly vinyl...

Vast majority is streaming with some radio thrown in occasionally. Listen to a lot of podcasts so streaming is the way for those. Still buy the occasional CD as some of my musical tastes don't really work as single tracks, you need to listen to the album as a whole and CD works best for that. Although the only working CD player I own is in the car!