> Do you think you discover 30 albums per year worth buying and adding to your collection? I listen to a lot of music, and I certainly don't. How do you discov

> Do you think you discover 30 albums per year worth buying and adding to your collection? I listen to a lot of music, and I certainly don't. How do you discover albums/songs? I simply don't have the time I used to to spend "discovering" music. I used spend a lot of time combing through DJ record pools (a habit I got from DJing many years ago when I subscribed to some) and using that to find stuff I'd like, in addition to terrestrial radio, going to clubs/bars, finding stuff on YouTube, and just randomly hearing music "in the wild". I've been doing streaming services for the past few years now (one at time, but I've done several). Most of the streaming services make it easy to customize playlists, or turn a playlist into a "radio" station that plays similar songs (but that's still customizable), and I've found this is an awesome way for me to discover music. I've found a ton of stuff that I otherwise wouldn't have known about (and I think I spend less time per new song/album/artist I find and like vs what I used to spend listening to record pools). I started using some of the free (versions of) services, then switched to paid to get unlimited skips and offline support for my phone. I also used to spend a lot of time copying music around and keeping it refreshed: SD card for my car, MP3s on my laptop/iPod to bring to work or travelling, and main collection on my server for the living room HTPC or my personal PC. All of that is obsolete, I just stream everything and with zero effort, have the same playlists everywhere. I use my phone + bluetooth in my car. I do have some stuff downloaded (and auto-refreshing) on my phone for travelling, but I stopped worrying about it because I'm generally way under my data cap while streaming (no doubt thanks to caching). For the past year and a half, I've been using Google Play Music. Killer feature there is I can 'upload' any song/album I already own and it's seamlessly integrated into the service -- which means I can listen on any device, and some songs even show up on other radio stations I've created. I'm not totally okay with not 'owning' the stuff, but I feel I am getting decent value for what I pay, and that includes my ability to just listen to music. If the service I use shuts down or changes significantly, I'll reconsider my relationship with the music industry at that point.