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BodyButter

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I have been a bit of a technological laggard for the past few years. This year, being the year that I have decided to catch up with 2018, I've bought myself a whole load of new tech crap and a new attitude. I've always just paid for and downloaded albums that I wanted mostly from Bandcamp. That might be old money though. Every Tom, Dick and Dr Dre seem to have their own music service these days. Spotify seems to be the biggest one.

Do you use a music service and if you do, which one is it and is it any good? Should I keep downloading albums individually or what's the crack with music these days?
 
All the streaming services are much of a muchness to be fair.

Being a bit of a tight arse, i used to just use Spotify, Google Music and Deezer just the free versions of each one, then when I ran out of 'skips' on one I'd use one of the others.

However, I found out Natalie was paying £9.99 for Spotify and her and the 2 girls were sharing one account. I realised for an extra £5 per month we could get Spotify Family and all 4 of us have our own seperate accounts, so we now do that and I do love having my own premium account I have to admit.

Spotify Family is great as up to 6 of you can use it making it £2.50 per month each instead of £9.99
 
Used to use the free service to sample new music, if I liked it, I bought the cd (yeah, old school!) but now don't bother really. I'll sample stuff on youtube and then decide.

I still like the physical cd, as I my custom built shelves plus the cds make a great centre point to my lounge. Silly in many ways as I could sell the cds as they are all loaded onto my ipod!
 
Pride of Lions - 18/1/2018 17:33

I used to use KAT but I've got all the music I need these days, so I don't bother with anything else.
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The Fear - 19/1/2018 05:00

Used to use the free service to sample new music, if I liked it, I bought the cd (yeah, old school!) but now don't bother really. I'll sample stuff on youtube and then decide.

I still like the physical cd, as I my custom built shelves plus the cds make a great centre point to my lounge. Silly in many ways as I could sell the cds as they are all loaded onto my ipod!
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Plus, it gives you something to do; spending months rearranging them in alphabetical order.
 
I use Google play. Several reasons, it's one of the cheepest over here, it has a family plan (I know Spotify has too but Google launched theirs here first), I use Google play services for other things, like ebooks and film rentals so I only have to have my payment card details saved once (makes keeping up with bills a bit simpler), Play allows you to have an automatic upload file on your desktop meaning that any music you own (ripped from CDs for example) can also be accessed on mobile devices as not all recordings of avery piece fo music is available through streaming services (I heard just earlier today that Def Leppard are finally releasing their back catalogue virtually, they have held out for years), and finally, I mainly use Android devices and as such I find that software developed by the same company tends to be more compatible.

 
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