• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I will learn to entertain myself with ruinously catchy freestyle like an oompa loompa before Spotify sees one red cent from me.

  • scripthook@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Fed up with the algorithms and looming AI integration last November I ditched Spotify and downloaded songs through soul seek. All my albums are on my Mac and my iPhone which I play via VLC media player. I’ve never looked back. No one telling me who I should listen to next or what my top artist of the year is. No more streaming with bad cell connection.

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      2 months ago

      No more streaming with bad cell connection.

      You know Spotify has an offline mode, right? I have many thousands of tracks downloaded using their offline mode.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah like 50gb of my phones storage is just Spotify music

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          2 months ago

          Didn’t you pirate the songs? I wouldn’t call that ownership.

          I just like Spotify and their discovery stuff. I wouldn’t enjoy having to find and download every single song I want to listen to. That would be a pain.

          Also, nothing is stopping me from pirating the songs whenever I want. It’s not like you “own” anything that I can’t also “own” the moment I decide to ditch Spotify.

          If you were actually buying CDs I would agree that you might have had a point (and a lot of cash because CDs are really expensive).

  • Hannes@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    It’s one thing to rule them all and a whole other to lock users into your platform

    Apple monopolized the podcast market for a decade but never stopped people from using the podcasts there with whatever client people wanted to use it with

    Spotify is just going the shitty route and forcing people to use their client and not just their servers

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        2 months ago

        I’m not a native speaker - I just wanted to say that for a very long time, most podcasts where hosted on iTunes and that was (and kind of still is) the go-to place for podcast-reviews/ratings

        And as I said: they kept the system open despite their market position

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        2 months ago

        They are using monopoly loosely. To run a podcast through Apple was easy and you could run it on many platforms. On Spotify you are locked into using their services. Just because Apple had the vast majority of podcasts at the beginning did not make them a monopoly, Spotify forcing podcasts to either be on their large platform or not be makes them a monopoly.

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    2 months ago

    I buy music from Bandcamp. Drm free. Musicians get a bigger cut. You can write a note to the band when you buy and sometimes they write back. Their recommendations and write-ups feel more human than algorithm. Feels pretty good. Renting music on Spotify sounds like a bad deal for me and my personal habits.

    Of course, they sold themselves and probably will enshittify in a couple years.

    For older stuff that’s not on Bandcamp… Honestly I don’t feel bad about pirating music that’s 15 years old. Copyright is too long, anyway.

    And for new mega pop stuff? Not my jam, but I’d probably still buy it drm free somewhere.

  • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    gonna fix my moms old walkman & put my music on her blank tapes…maybe ill try and join red or orph and upload her mega collection of music there idk

  • Caveman@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The other thing Spotify is doing is commodifying and reducing the value of all of those things.

  • kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    OP you should make the same meme about Steam right? Never mind that they massively reduced piracy and get creators paid

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      2 months ago

      monopolies are the same as dictators, generally really bad, but a great dictator can get so much shit done and change things for the better much faster than great democracy could (i’m not dictator-apologising here, i’ll take democracy any day, just stating a fact here)

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      2 months ago

      This is where I’m conflicted.

      I don’t use Spotify because I don’t believe in ads or paying money for things that are relatively easy to get. Im also not into music, which means my NEED to get anything is pretty low.

      Where gaming, Steam is a platform. One could argue the ads are in the store page or all the sales. But there’s still a huge pirate community. There’s still GoG. All the other drm platforms are miniscule so not going to talk about them.

      Where Steam is different is that shit just works on Steam. I can download a game from 2005, install, and I’m at the title screen. If I pirate, I have to do a handful of things to get to the title screen. Same with GoG. My Steamdeck is amazing! I’ve been actually rethinking building PCs in favor of just getting new Steam Decks.

  • glaber@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Anyone here know of a good open-source and/or federated platform for music and podcasts? I heard of Funkwhale, but is it usable?