How do you store your music? - Or do you skip that shit and stream everything

[Sergeant Politeness]

So I figure there's probably a few people with as ridiculously in-detail and autistic a setup for keeping their music as I do, so here goes a thread on it.

If I can choose, I rip straight from the CD and use Apple Lossless for all my home listening. When I sync to my phone, it knocks it down to lossy AAC for me and still sounds pretty ace, no lossy-to-lossy transcoding nonsense. I generally don't buy off of iTunes or anything online. For my loose lossless files, demos, and bootlegs, I use FLAC and play it through Foobar2000. If it's already in MP3 or some other weird lossy codec, like some of my netlabel releases that inexplicably came in OGG, I leave it like that.

I also have some vinyl knocking around, and I've tried needle-dropping it, but for most albums, it just ends up being muddier than getting the CD. I use Spotify for listening to new shit, and if I like it, I go find a physical copy of it. I like having the freedom to rerip it all in higher quality if I need to.

What about you guys?

 

[D. Sweatshirt]

I usually buy it on vinyl if I like it enough. Otherwise, I just keep it on a YouTube playlist or find it from memory.

 

[totse]

I torrent FLAC and 320 to a seedbox with a basic/lazy subdirectory organization and then I just let Plex index it because I get my music from a good tracker where everything is tagged up all nice. Then listening is streaming in Plex web interface or sometimes copying to my phone before driving somewhere if I really want something particular, but I usually don't have much of a preference so I just bounce around Pandora stations instead.

 

[Daisuke Jigen]

If I'm a big enough fan I'll buy it on CD (I'm a huge fan of shit like Boz Scaggs and Steely Dan so pretty much everything from them I have ripped from CD), others I just record off stereo mix from the highest quality I can find on YouTube.

 

[ConcernedAnon]

In gif format;

just play it in winamp

For real though, if anybody has any idea what this song is, please let me know, it's been bugging me since I was twelve (A long time)

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Digital files (favorite), CDs , and cassette tapes (yeah, I still have cassette tapes in 2017).

 

[Absolutego]

After an incident during an OS reinstall cost me all my music, I now have everything on a RAID 5 storage device. I've been building a vinyl collection as well for when I want listening to music to be a bit more of an experience instead of background noise, but had to leave my turntable behind when I moved recently so in the short term I'm unable to listen to any of it.

 

[Dr.Research]

I have a few CDs of my favorite band but it's mostly for my fangirl-ism.
I used an ipod to store the audio from lyric videos on youtube until about 2 or 3 years ago when I lost mine (I've gone through a few). My boyfriend gave me his old one but I mostly just keep it around for the occasional plane trip.
Now I just youtube whatever song I want on my phone when the desire strikes.

 

[tehpope]

CDs in the car. Sometimes Spotify.
Use Foobar in genre or band playlists on my PCs.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

After an incident during an OS reinstall cost me all my music, I now have everything on a RAID 5 storage device.

Mass data loss like that sucks. Did you back up the RAID 5 content in case that device has problems?

 

[AnOminous]

Mass data loss like that sucks. Did you back up the RAID 5 content in case that device has problems?

LOL with RAID 5 what does he have to be ensuring against, nuclear war?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

LOL with RAID 5 what does he have to be ensuring against, nuclear war?

Music is essential in a post-atomic wasteland.

Spoiler

But seriously, RAID devices can still have issues, though likely rarely.

 

[AnOminous]

Music is essential in a post-atomic wasteland.

Spoiler

But seriously, RAID devices can still have issues, though likely rarely.

Nobody will ever be successfully sued because RAID 5 was just too loose as a data protection policy.

I mean, unless it's a nuclear level facility or something, in which case, you'll probably have worse things to worry about.

 

[cuddle striker]

mp3 master race here. and streaming.

sold the vinyl, made bank. switched to digital.
gave away the CDs, worthless.
I don't like to own too much stuff. clutter.

 

[Bogs]

Had a large CD collection which I gave to either my parents or car owners
Had a modest vinyl collection which is held by my parents
Now it's D:/Music

 

[Morose_Obesity]

Terabyte portable hard drives, and cloud storage.

 

[GeorgeDaMoose]

All digital except for some CDs. Would get vinyl if I had a player.

 

[TheMightyMonarch]

Used to have a pretty large CD collection as a kid. Then moved to mp3 (before I had an iPod, I used to burn my music from the CD onto a small floppy disk and then played it on a Mp3 player. Sounds complicated but I actually liked it a lot). Now I recently started using Spotify and I have to admit that everything is now 1000x easier in regards to storing my music.

 

[RADICALGOBLIN]

Vinyl, CDs, Occasionally streaming and cassettes.

 

[Kazami Yuuka]

Stream it until my playcount reaches into the 50s. After that, I'll either bootleg it by ripping it off of Youtube, or downloading it. I'll try getting a loseless version if downloading, but if ripping, I'll settle on an OGG. After that, it's either WinAmp on the computer, or Pi Music on the phone.