Texas Secession 'Closer' Than Anyone Thinks

[MrSquished]

Always thought CD's and ripped mp3's were cheaper than streaming music subscriptions in the long run!

I find streaming services with good discovery algorithms to be far more efficient at storing, listening to, and discovering music. Tidal pays the artists the most, Spotify is probably the most full-featured. With either one you can download your playlists onto your devices to listen to offline.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Always thought CD's and ripped mp3's were cheaper than streaming music subscriptions in the long run!

Why not both in one

 

[MrSquished]

Google Play Music was pretty awesome back in the day, in that you could rip your entire music library and upload it into their cloud, and then be able to make playlists with that music plus from the streaming service portion of the Play Music subscription. You could also buy tunes from them, or just stream them. Mix it all up together. Great implementation, but just another small project from Google not marketed well and then left to die.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Google music was good. I switched to Spotify for awhile and still subscribe for the family. Now it’s plex with Tidal integration, working well. Tidal offers a family plan now, so probably switching to that for family eventually

 

[esquared]

I definitely prefer bringing my own music, all hail the SD card slot in my VW!

My car has a USB slot for the MP3 playing.

I have a shit-ton of music on my 128GB drive.

 

[VashHT]

Yeah YouTube music doesn't hold a candle to Google music. Even Spotify has far worse radio mixes imo, it defaults way too much to the same songs. I tried an SD card in my mazda3 for a while but it was too slow, just annoying waiting for it to load going through menus and such,