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Just the albums on my favorites list in Qobuz would have been around $10,000 USD to purchase in hi-res.
Man, Spotify were the ones who did it. Like they made the service so significantly better and more convenient than pirating that most of those pirating actually switched.
Not a fan of the platform anymore since the heavy push for sponsored content, removal of audiobooks and the whole Joe Rogan thing, but still credit where it's due.
The built a thing by burning investor money to artificially lower the price and sell out high on stock IPOs is still going strong I see.
And by massively underpaying the actual artists that create the content that fills the platform.
Back in the days we were paying 10$ for an album. Then Napster came.
Now we pay 100$ for a concert.
Try Metrolist maybe.
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I just noticed yesterday, that existing subscribers can stay at the old price. There's an option to switch to a "basic" plan, afaik you will lose access to audiobooks, but they only give 12h of those per month, for the 2 euros extra.
Thanks, just switched.
I washed my clown makeup off with a home server
Recently done the same and could not believe how easy it was too set up an *arr stack. It's like magic
Yarrr.
When I was just a lad looking for my true vocation
My father said "Now son, this choice deserves deliberation...
Though you could be a doctor...
...or perhaps a financier...
My boy, why not consider a more challenging career!"
They mock you for subscribing to an online service. I mock you for subscribing to WoW instead of FFXIV. We are not the same.
(Insert FFXIV free trial meme here)
FFXIV is just a drip pageant. Seems like it’s little else but people standing around role playing fetishes.
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I've never played any of the FFs :/
FFS
*laughs in physical media*
The internet is over, you guys. We can finally switch off our devices and take a good nap.
Return it to Big Ben when you’re done with it.
That's where it has the best reception, right?
I usually have to listen to a song several times before it fully "clicks" if I like it or not, so music streaming subscription is great for being able to grab any song I think I might like and throw it in trial playlist. Back when I bought/acquired music, I would skip over most music I might like because the effort wasn't worth it for a song I wasn't sure if I liked or not. So streaming has worked really well for me for music discovery at least.
On the bright side, I'm still getting my $8 a month early adopter price for Google music all access (now YouTube music).
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people pay for music? Wow at least give you something for the money, although pricey. others like RS trying to justify thier price increase without substantial increase in content.
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Yar what if I told yee have another option
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