[aryamaan]

Genuine question: what's the need of music players these days? I mean, all the songs are locked in music streaming app (apple music, spotify)- where do you download your songs from?

[owlmirror]

Some people like their music without DRM and vendor lock-in. We rip it from Audio-CDs or buy mp3 albums when available. Sometimes we even resort to piracy (SoulSeek, torrent, one-click hoster+piracy blogs).

Also if you often travel between borders, streaming music is just not an option.

I have an offline collection of about 500GB of music, but there are people who have substantially more.

[kowdermeister]

On SoundCloud you can find tons of mixes. I don't have a data plan so I prefer to listen to podcasts offline.

[jetti]

>I don't have a data plan so I prefer to listen to podcasts offline.

I do have a data plan and prefer to listen to podcasts offline. The amount of data podcasts can take up is crazy

[Tharre]

Have you heard about that those ancient things called music CDs? That's where people get their offline music from ;-)