What do you play music on?

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Feeling totally out of touch.
If I want some music I buy a CD. My nephew's look at CDs and CD players like they are from the ark. They don't know what to do with them. How do people give each other music and what do you play it on? My car doesn't have a CD player, how can I play my favourite music in the car? I got an MP3 player but it's so tiny, I can't read the track names. I tried ripping my CDs to the computer, but they are all unknown album, unknown artist, Track 1 etc. The sound isn't always great either. What should I be doing?

Spotify, deezer or tidl music streaming service on your phone!!

I use alexa in the house. Amazon music in the car bluetoothed from my phone to the car speakers.

Phone through Bluetooth speakers or vinyl. We also have loads of CDs and cassettes but we collect.

I hate that my new car doesnt have a cd player I gVe tons of CDs and still buy them. Like couldntvget the usb cd player to work in my fiesta

I stream my music.
I don't have bluetooth in my car so use an aux lead for my phone.
I still use my ipod from time to time when I remember.

We have Amazon echos in most rooms in the house, useful when I’m doing housework as you can play music on them all at the same time. I also use my phone if I want to play music through headphones. And my phone with Bluetooth in the car. We got rid of all CDs years ago.

Spotify on phone and Bluetooth speakers in house (sonos but there’s loads of others around).

Almost everyone streams music through their phones now. Lots of apps have access to incredibly large libraries. You can link your smart phone to your car on the same way as an MP3 player.

Spotify seems to be the most popular app. There's a free version, but it has adverts and a premium version for £10 a month. I use Apple Music - you can either pay for the premium version or buy individual songs, like you do for an MP3.

At home, we have Apple home pods and two better quality speakers. You can get a home pod mini for £100. I'm guessing you can do everything we can do with home pods with Alexa too and Amazon music....

When you rip CDs you need to name the album and artist.

I like CDs I like holding it and reading the sleeve notes etc. But they are dying out unfortunately.

Physical media (CD/blu-ray/books/games) used to make great Christmas gifts for teenagers but now everything is online or digital. Wrapping a gift card just isn't the same. That said Cds/Dvds are so hard to recycle that digital media is probably better for the planet. And yes they can be sold on but sooner or later the vast majority or them will end up in landfill.

I listen on Amazon music. If I like something, I buy the CD, then rip them in lossless format and store them on my phone and ipod.

When you rip CDs you need to name the album and artist.

I use ITunes and that fills all the info in for you and grabs the album artwork too, usually.

@Etulosba

When you rip CDs you need to name the album and artist.

I use ITunes and that fills all the info in for you and grabs the album artwork too, usually.

Usually Windows media does the same but Op seems to be using something that isn't lifting the information but maybe she has lots of complication CDs.

I use Spotify or Amazon prime, and I either play directly from Alexa, or from my phone to Alexa or my phone to a blue tooth speaker, or Alexa to a blue tooth speaker

But it’s always via a streaming service. We got rid of all our cds a good decade ago. If I want to share a song I simoly share it from Spotify via WhatsApp, I’ve not bought someone music for a long time,

We also downloaded our cds to a hard drive before we got rid, never used it though, it’s so cheap with a monthly subscription to play literally anything you want.

The sound isn't always great either. What should I be doing?

If you choose to rip CDs so that the file size is the smallest, the quality will suffer badly. If you want CD quality sound, you need to rip to a lossless format, or pay for a high resolution streaming service.

On the High res streaming service as long as you use something like Spotify or Amazon etc and then stream to a decent speaker then the quality is excellent, the quality of the sound usually depends in this scenario on the quality of the speaker.

Based on the ops current practices I’d doubt she’s a purist.

Op why not buy yourself a little Amazon echo, they are only about twenty quid, ans then subscribe to a streaming service, you can even do it for free. See how you get on.

It’s so simple. Say you want to listen to Bruce Springsteen, you type him in the search bar and every song ans album he’s ever recorded and his concerts come up, you can then either just play, like or download if you want anything available off line.

You can then create playlists, which are the modern day version of mix tapes, you literally tap on the dots and add to playlist or create one.

So for example I have a chill out play list, a slow one, a party one, a dinner party one, a fave songs one, and eighties songs one. You then just tap on your library and play your playlist.

Or with Alexa you just tell her to play whichever song pops into your head and she will play if for you.

Thank you all. That explains the weird looks. And seems like there is no point giving the kids music as they have those streaming services already. You can say "listen to this, it's great", but you haven't actually given them anything they didn't already have.

@lockdownbear maybe she has lots of complication CDs.

That'll be the thing. The complication CDs

Apple Music or the Radio.

I do use a cd in the car or the radio, and we have a small cd player indoors, but also play from itunes on phone and pc and sometimes from you tube on tv or pc or phone

Usually Spotify through our Echo dots

I use CDs or iPod. In the car, mainly CDs, because when I connect my iPod, it plays through the entire music collection in alphabetical order which obviously is how I want to listen to tracks!

If DD is with me, she will select tracks/playlist etc, but I can't sort that when I'm driving.
In the house, I usually only manage iPod or radio, because there isn't anywhere to put a cd player in my room/kitchen.
I refuse to use online streaming services because I don't agree with the subscription model. If I buy music, it belongs to me!

That said, I don't buy much music these days

Spotify on tablet for relaxing before bed time, CD player for nursery rhymes Disney songs with DC, and digital radio via TV.

@lostintime thanks for keeping me company in my Luddite lifestyle. I actually still have cassette tapes, and a device that can record onto them, all of which DD loves.

I refuse to use online streaming services because I don't agree with the subscription model. If I buy music, it belongs to me!

That makes no sense, if you buy music on any subscription service it belongs to you. If you stop your subscription they pull back only music you’ve not purchased and leave you with what you have. The music that doesn’t get pulled back is the ones you just listen to but don’t buy as part of the subscription. Which is how most people use it. The subscription is access to a massive library that you can listen to any track on, buying the music is possible but then you own it.

I have had several purchased items removed from my library by iTunes after the artists/artists management decided to revoke the rights to Apple.

So no- items bought through Amazon and apple (don't know about Spotify) don't actually belong to you in perpetuity, only for as long as the rights owner agrees. (Books have also been pulled from Amazon).
People can't generally recall CDs though.

Deezer app on my phone. Bluetooth to a speaker if I don't want to use headphones. (I don't drive so I don't have your problem)

I grew up with cassette tapes