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Users with personal music libraries, how do you decide what to download? (midwest.social)

submitted 9 months ago by butter@midwest.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I recently made a post asking about getting spotify cheaper via vpn.

My question to everyone: how do you decide what to download?

Do you just grab everything, do you use last fm, do you erase music that you never listen to?

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[-] cirdanlunae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 101 points 9 months ago

Storage is cheap, and music (even in FLAC format) is small. You can fit tens of thousands of songs into a terabyte.

I download anything and everything. An artist I enjoy? Entire discography. I've only heard one song? Entire discography--there may be more I might enjoy! An artist in a genre I like but I've never heard? Entire discography.

I'm at over 125k songs, and I still feel like my collection is a sliver. I eventually want to reach 1m songs and truly become my own Spotify. Finding songs I've never heard before and that I end up loving in my own collection is a joy I can't describe.

[-] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

How do you decide what to listen to? I assume you don't listen to multiple entire discographies

[-] Nyarlathotep@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago

I actually listen to music on Twitch a lot. I follow a handful of streamers who play music I like, and are always playing stuff that is new to me, and kindly list track IDs on the video feed.

I hear a song I like by an artist I am unfamiliar with and then guess what...? Entire discography.