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Ask HN: How do you listen to music on your phone? (Android, iOS)

2 points by ttty 8y ago

I've noticed that most of the people have a different way of listening to music. Examples Spotify, MP3 player, YouTube, some app that wraps YouTube and plays with the screen off. What about you?

pwg 8y ago
Vanilla Music, with locally stored tracks: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.blinkenlights.android.vanilla/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.blinkenlights.android.van...
grawprog 8y ago
Mp3's mostly or flacs now that I have a bigger SD card. I've got at least 40,000 songs i've been accumulating since about 1996/1997. Not all on my phone but at least half the storage on my phone is music. I like music a lot. Sometimes I use Newpipe.
anoncoward111 8y ago
Torrent everything, youtube-dl everything else, stored locally on my phone and backed up via Google Drive for free.
Breadmaker 8y ago
Nokia n9 as mp3 player, fill it with podcasts once aweek. Follow a few music-tumblrs saves the page and pick out the .mpga files.
wingerlang 8y ago
I converted a youtube playlist into MP3's some year ago and just listen to that one.
lostgame 8y ago
I personally run a music and fashion label in Toronto, and my primary partner and I both use Apple Music, as we are fairly locked into Apple’s ecosystem. (We produce music in Logic Pro X, edit our music videos in Final Cut Pro X and Motion, and use iPhones for GarageBand iOS -> Logic capability.) It works like a dream, we share a family plan for a very reasonable $15/mo and have access to 95% of even the old exclusives from the iTunes Store. As iTunes was the primary source of legal music online for quite some time, it’s selection is vast and it’s seamless integration with iCloud means all my Apple things (which are most of my digital things) all have all the music I want on them...which is a lot. I’m also a stickler for quality, since I make music for a living, so it’s great from that angle as well.
Raed667 8y ago
Spotify mostly, sometimes i would put YouTube (not that app but open in Firefox so i can keep it playing in the background)
c0nducktr 8y ago
I subscribe to Google Music because it comes with ad-free YouTube, which is nice to have on iOS. I'd rather use Spotify (for the UI) or Apple Music (for better iOS integration) but I don't want to pay for a separate subscription just for YouTube.

2 points by ttty 8y ago

I've noticed that most of the people have a different way of listening to music. Examples Spotify, MP3 player, YouTube, some app that wraps YouTube and plays with the screen off. What about you?

pwg 8y ago

Vanilla Music, with locally stored tracks: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.blinkenlights.android.vanilla/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.blinkenlights.android.van...

grawprog 8y ago

Mp3's mostly or flacs now that I have a bigger SD card. I've got at least 40,000 songs i've been accumulating since about 1996/1997. Not all on my phone but at least half the storage on my phone is music. I like music a lot. Sometimes I use Newpipe.

anoncoward111 8y ago

Torrent everything, youtube-dl everything else, stored locally on my phone and backed up via Google Drive for free.

Breadmaker 8y ago

Nokia n9 as mp3 player, fill it with podcasts once aweek. Follow a few music-tumblrs saves the page and pick out the .mpga files.

wingerlang 8y ago

I converted a youtube playlist into MP3's some year ago and just listen to that one.

lostgame 8y ago

I personally run a music and fashion label in Toronto, and my primary partner and I both use Apple Music, as we are fairly locked into Apple’s ecosystem. (We produce music in Logic Pro X, edit our music videos in Final Cut Pro X and Motion, and use iPhones for GarageBand iOS -> Logic capability.) It works like a dream, we share a family plan for a very reasonable $15/mo and have access to 95% of even the old exclusives from the iTunes Store. As iTunes was the primary source of legal music online for quite some time, it’s selection is vast and it’s seamless integration with iCloud means all my Apple things (which are most of my digital things) all have all the music I want on them...which is a lot. I’m also a stickler for quality, since I make music for a living, so it’s great from that angle as well.

Raed667 8y ago

Spotify mostly, sometimes i would put YouTube (not that app but open in Firefox so i can keep it playing in the background)

c0nducktr 8y ago

I subscribe to Google Music because it comes with ad-free YouTube, which is nice to have on iOS. I'd rather use Spotify (for the UI) or Apple Music (for better iOS integration) but I don't want to pay for a separate subscription just for YouTube.