[bdcravens]

Are there any music download services showing numbers to support that assertion? I know that HN and the like talk about it a lot, but I feel like the public at large isn't trying to buy anything. They certainly aren't canceling a $15 Spotify account and turning around and spending $1000 to restore their playlists.

[amatecha]

I basically did exactly that.. I canceled Spotify and pretty quickly bought tons of stuff. Check my "collection" at Bandcamp: https://bandcamp.com/amatecha

In a casual manner, I allot myself ~$15/mo (or more) to buy new stuff on Bandcamp. As you can see, it's going nicely and I have a ton of music from my favorite artists, also stored permanently on my NAS in mp3 and FLAC formats.

[bdcravens]

I'll step out on a limb and say that the kinds of consumers I'm talking about think that NAS is a rapper and think that FLAC is a short way of talking about the company with the talking duck. :-)

[BriggyDwiggs42]

Id assume the people switching to local ownership are just pirating, but i suppose that means there aren’t analytics to use.

[d357r0y3r]

There aren't any numbers to support it.

"I went back to torrenting" is a Reddit/HN thing. Regular people are still using streaming services for the vast majority of content.