My brother once shared an rdio playlist with me. I used the firefox dev tools to download all of the songs to my library. A few months later, rdio shut down. To this day, a piece of rdio lives on on my hard drive.
What features did Spotify nix?
I think the free version basically removed the ability to pick the exact song you want to play,there was a headline on here a couple days ago like "Spotify reinvents the radio" but in general Redditor fashion, I didn't read past the headline.
Do yourself a favor and get a record player and some records, vinyl if you can. Then sit down and really listen. Don't do anything else while listening. It pays off, I promise.
My personal mp3 collection is quite comprehensive. I use musicolet to play songs at random in the car.
I find that much more rewarding than anything Spotify has to offer.
Spotify always finds a way to play top 40 to me. Oh you like post industrial banging on a trashcan to sawing noises? Check out Taylor's new album.
The hell are you doing on Spotify for it to do that?
Hell, I use my personal account to play songs for my job, which involves a lot of top 40 and Spotify still doesn't recommend that to me
Ive done the library management before. For the moment I'm still content with paying for spotify premium. I bet they will raise their prices in the future to make me rethink that, but for now i enjoy not having to manage a huge collection and my spotify recommendations arent terrible yet.
I collect flac wherever i can on my Computer and sync it to my phone with transcode to lossy. I agree tho, a good lossy encode cannot be distinguished from their lossless version. Even less when you dont have the immediate comparison.
Three reasons:
I have the same mp3 I ripped from a cd decades ago that has a bug in one of the tracks, and I love it.
“Pathetic.”
Still keep a mostly FLAC/some MP3 library that I manage with Musicbee. Never felt the need to pay for Spotify.
I've been using the same off-brand MP3 player for like 15 years now. That thing is indestructible and has better battery life than my phone
I switched to Qobuz from Spotify. Never going back. Better sound quality, good UX, and they pay artists more than 10x what Spotify pays per stream.
Spotify has been promising better audio quality for years and I just don't think they will deliver.
Meanwhile I'm still enjoying my Bandcamp. They give me vinyl records and everything.
The radio is on all the time at my house.
Locally we have 24/7 classical, 24/7 Jazz/Blues, 24/7 bizarre college, 24/7 FUCKYEAHROCK, 24/7 FUCKYEAHOLDERROCK, 24/7 Talk radio, 24/7 HipHop/R&B both old and new school, shortwave, and whats your 20.
And I don't need internet for any of that. that said I do use mp3 (hallelujah and Amen break for that) and youtube for finding this and that.
But all of those stations have shows that I tune in for specific content.
A weekly show about movie soundtracks
A weekly show about young jazz and classical musicians
and all i have to do is mute or change station to escape commercials or pledge drives.
cost to my bandwidth: zero
radio is where it is at still to this day.
Flac rule
OOTL - What features are being removed?
I still do it because the weeb part of my library isnt all on spotify.
I recently moved the old archive to a new drive and started adding to it again. The enshittification of all the things is real, seems like if it's something I'd like to re-watch or listen to the only sane way I'll be able to do so is by making sure I have a copy some company can't yoyo around.
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