I don't like to think about how much time I've spent ripping CDs, but it's better than being fed someone else's algorithm or relying on a functional wireless connection to play my music.
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I will say, I've discovered more music from small artists through recommendation algorithms than I otherwise would have, by a large amount. It's one of the few areas where I'm fine with algorithmic recommendations, cause it's not really trying to push me down a political rabbit hole to change who I am.
I'm over here using Spotiamp to listen to my Spotify playlists through Winamp as a Shoutcast.
if I'm going to spend money on music, why not buy the music directly and own it for life?
I've discovered so many artists because of Spotify, I need to give it credit where it's due. And I have bought concert tickets and physical and digital media of artists that I have discovered solely because of Spotify. It is far from perfect, but there's been an upside to my use.
So I do both, but I love finding new music.
i dont have enough storage or money to do that, otherwise i would
I'll be laughing at both of you from my 300gb mp3 collection when the internet goes down
CDs nuts
GOTTEM
“Hmm, do I overpay for green fascism or red fascism?”
At least for red facism you can use a patched apk and get all features (except download)
Use Metrolist
Never heard of it before, looks cool!
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I just moved to qobuz and although it's missing some releases, the discovery is leagues beyond what Spotify has become.
I've found more new bands to follow in the past 3 months than in the prior 4 years of Spotify.
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Same, the pricing and experience was similar but ad free YouTube was enough of an incentive to get me to swap
"ad-free youtube"
Weird, my YouTube is always ad free, and I can skip sponsored content. Without paying a cent.
Ad blockers and sponsor block for desktop, and a revanced modified version of the youtube app and I haven't seen a YouTube ad in several years.
Same, I might get YouTube premium tho to support the creators a bit
I'd rather give money more directly to content creators that deserve it. If they actually care, they'll have ways to do so. I support a few on patreon or similar service for about $5/mo and that goes a lot further than handing youtube the money. Honestly at this point, "supporting creators" is just an excuse.
Sure, I do this too, as well as pay for YouTube Premium, bc some of that goes back to the creators I watch every day 🤷♀️
The ones that are worth it and need support have their own ways to donate money to them, usually through a patron-like service.
$1/mo directly does a lot more than paying a company that is actively working on a late stage capitalism surveillance state.
Sure, but I don't have endless cash to subscribe to everyone's patreons, etc. So I go this way, or, I just don't contribute at all, because it's financially not feasible for me to do that.
It's ublock origin + patreon for me, no doubt a much larger % goes to the creator that way
Really? You patreon every creator you watch? How many creators is that?
I Patreon the creators I'd be sad to see stop or change for monetary reasons, which is only 3 of them
That was my thought before I stopped giving money to American companies. Another huge perk was the ability to add YouTube videos to music playlists for those odd songs that were never officially published.
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Me but with Tidal
Tidal is the shit
I'm like the sole person out here using Pandora.
There’s dozens of us! Dozens!
But frfr, I’m always surprised when I open it and it’s still going. Feels more like they are being funded by a few eccentric billionaires than anything else these days.
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Me, but with Plexamp.
(I'll switch my music library to Jellyfin when they get Sonic Analysis.)
It's somewhat there, I guess.
I'm on Navidrome for music, and use AudioMuse and its Navidrome plugin for (as far as I can tell) Sonic Analysis like functionality.
AudioMuse should be available for Jellyfin as well.
I might just be missing something, but I haven't figured out how to make a playlist on the fly with audiomuse in symphonium. Just a playlist at my audiomuse IP. Which is something, but not accessible enough for me to actively use it. I assume and hope I'm just missing something
I've been wanting to switch off of spotify, but ive already collected all the songs i like and built all my playlists there. Is there a program or something that can easily scrape my spotify profile and make a list of all my songs and playlists?
Spotify has a takeout feature that can export all of your data iirc.
Qobuz streaming literally includes this service as the first step after signing up for a free trial. It copies all of your Spotify playlists and collections and creates exact replicates in Qobuz to use immediately. Worked flawlessly for me.
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