I have got to admit I canned Spotify subs years ago - but how are they managing to grow their subscriber base whn it is now going to be £11.99 in the UK? That is way, way too high for what it offers…
fuck Spotify, I only listen to downloaded flac and mp3 music and YouTube
Bandcamp is not banned in the UK yet. But i think the government has strong intelligence that they are a terrorist organisation.
Well, it’s owned by friggin’ Epic, now… so they’re not that far off with their Intel.
Wow, that trade went by very quietly. Glad they’re out from Epic at least i guess… scummy as hell behavior from Songtradr…
Yeah, was like just over a year later, they still are the independent & small label place imo, I don’t have faith that’ll last forever unfortunately. They still are my go to place for discovery and exploration, bandcamp daily still has some interesting finds, I just make sure I download my purchases.
You guys are paying for Spotify?
Their strategy has been for years to make the phone app very constrained if you’re not paying, so to have any decent experience that was kinda required.
I guess some people are, as long as it’s a good balance of convenience and price. Ages ago, Napster, Kazaa and DC++ were considered more convenient than buying music. I guess torrents are used for that these days.
I work a desk job. I cant put pirated music on my work computer or ill get fired. Only real option is a pay service.
I don’t like to bring my personal stuff on my work computer, but I can use my phone for all that stuff instead. You could use a BT speaker to blast pirate metal in the office.
I thought about using my phone but I dont have unlimited data on my phone. I also dont have unlimited data at home so id run my phone and internet down faster. Phone is the real issue as its not much cell data at all per month.
An offline solution exists too, but then you would need to sync a few gigabytes of mp3 files on your phone. Not quite as convenient, but at least it wouldn’t use any mobile data. Actually, it’s still a whole lot nicer than dragging a CD player and a few discs with you. If you’re into retro, you totally can get CDs too…
There’s a P2P app from the same era as KaZaA, originally released the same year (2001), that’s still in active use today: Soulseek. It’s a great way to find obscure music, some of which isn’t on streaming services and is extremely difficult to obtain otherwise.
Usenet is good for less popular stuff too. Torrents die once the last seed is gone, but some Usenet providers have over 10 years retention, and you always get full speeds over an encrypted connection with no uploading required.
Do I need an invite for usenet?
now I don’t want to be that person but I’d like to give artists some money somehow. Like I dislike AI as it rips people off - there is a (difficult) middle line to tread
The problem is there’s some 90s albums I can’t find anywhere - not on Discogs, not on eBay, not on Marketplace. The record labels are usually long gone. But they’re on Soulseek. I’m not sure what else to do to get them.
There’s also things like DJ sets/mixes that were never sold, only ever distributed online for free.
Of course… not quite my point but yours is valid. I’d just like a more ethical alternative which I know is asking far too much in 2025
Bandcamp?
And that Judas priest CD in the cellar somewhere, sometimes you have paid the artist already so soulseek comes in handy.
Of course… I mean you don’t want them coming around your place to see you do you (Judas Priest that is)
Yes. Go back to your bubble now.
What bubble?
the modded app chad bubble
The bubble where Spotify isn’t a massively successful service and most aren’t paying for it or music in general.
I never said it wasn’t a successful service. I’m only genuinely surprised that so many people pay for what I personally consider marginal improvements. Also thanks for being the usual internet jerk ready to snap at any comment he doesn’t like: now I have an idea of who may pay for that subscription.
👌👍 I’m sure you were genuinely questioning who is paying for Spotify and not being a snarky sarcastic jackass 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This shit is like watching Trump tards get upset when South Park takes calls out their shit.
Damn, you got me! Now I have to rethink my whole plan to undermine Spotify’s revenues one comment a time!
Get riled.
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I bet you’re a habitual reddit user. Comment checks out.
I don’t no. But as they keep removing features from the free account, and here in the UK you at least need an account now to play anything people do
We have the duo plan, for me and my wife. Kids don’t need one yet.
Firefox & ublock and there are no publicities.
My 'ol android apk doesn’t work any more thoug… and can’t find a new one (Hint hint, blink blink)
Same with pi-hole.
I’ve been using a cracked yt music since the Spotify crackdown. I miss my playlists often :^(
must be hard paying 5 bucks for an exporter :^(
You can rip MP3 files by using a Youtube-to-MP3 converter.
Just stop using Spotify entirely.
https://github.com/justin025/onthespot
Way better. My personal library is reaching 375k songs.
And once you have them ripped (however you choose to do that), host them via a media server so you can access them from whatever device you like.
Third one in a little over two years. They say it’s to keep up with inflation as if they’re a retail store operating on razor thin margins and people accept that.
Meanwhile the new Seagate 26tb HDD is going for $270
I’ve been downloading my media for over 10 years now and I only have like 2 1/2 Terabytes filled, a 26tb drive could hold most people’s lifetime media collections.
Owning your own storage and files is the only way to ensure you keep access to the media you want.
No biggie. I never had subscriptions. I always thought it was a waste of money.
I’m quite unhappy with spotify. I don’t care about the price, but it keeps repeating the same and same music again, and the percentage of crappy AI music is increasing. You can clearly hear it. Their client isn’t open source, and it’s just a wrapped website. It sucks.
I cancelled it when they started to crack down on family plans with separate households. It just wasn’t worth the money to me anymore. I wonder how much more price hikes the remaining customers are going to tolerate. At some point it becomes cheaper to just outright buy music…
Is there any reasonable option that I can use on a Garmin watch standalone? I like to run without my phone and listen to a podcast and Spotify has been my go to.
Can your watch play mp3s? Most podcasts are available for download that way too.
I got a subscription two months ago because I had an event where it was simply easier to just use Spotify. I’m going back to plexamp I guess.
Well I am happy to have cancelled this shit a few months ago
ive been using apple music for years, mainly like how for edm it tends to have highquality recorded live sets for all djs, and they are seperated instead of being one long continuous track, like youll get
- song
- song2/song3
- song4
- song5
- song6/song7/song8 Most convenient way to listen to them and get all the track names.
And yet, despite the subscription price or its raise, Spotify still insists on forcing promoted content on your homepage.
Military defence is expensive
