Music mediums

I mostly listen to music that I downloaded on my phone or on Youtube. I used to listen to a lot of vinyl records as a kid and CDs, but I no longer have a CD player and I stopped listening to the albums that were on record.

 

I mostly listen to music on Spotify, simply because almost everything I would ever want to listen to is on there for free. I'm also pretty sporadic with the music I like, I rarely listen to entire albums so making a playlist of songs I know I'll like makes a lot more sense to me than buying an album and skipping through songs I don't like as much.

 

Spotify is nice, and so is youtube, and pirated downloaded mp3 files
WARNING: RANT AHEAD
So, once there was an extension named Streamus. Streamus was for Chrome, and what it did was let you import and customize playlists using youtube videos. It would allow you to listen to youtube playlists/music without a youtube tab open.
Then... Google sued. Because Streamus did not display footage, blablabla.
Now I have to use a saved apk file, unpack it and load it as an unpacked extension, reload the chrome page, and mess around with dev options to make it work. And I can't upload/add new musics either.
Back to Spotify... //sigh

 

I usually use YouTube downloaded .mp3 files to listen to music. I wish I could use Spotify but it's not available in my country "yet". I know this because I check their site every month ;-;

 

I have a music library of 7490 songs on my main computer, which I then also have on my new laptop through the mighty power of Windows Homegroup. That's a problem once portability becomes a factor, so when I'm out and about I'm limited to just a few select albums I've put locally onto the laptop too.

My dumbphone is no good for music, and I don't like much of what's on the radio, so I'm limited to CDs when I'm driving out and about. I usually burn a new mix every month or so, and I hate the 80 minute limit (as opposed to 700MB like the CD should be able to hold). This most recent CD, even, I had to do some audio engineering for. It has 21 songs, and a lot of my favorite artists like long songs, so 6 or so of those 21 I edited them for later beginnings, earlier endings, or some interior segments flawlessly removed with down-to-the-millisecond precision on splicing parts together. It's a lot of work, but you know what, it's worth it.