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0 pointsYodel09142y ago0 comments

I'm in the same boat - have been very happily paying for Spotify family for many years, love the access to music, but hate the way they push crap I don't care about. And their recommendation algorithm has never really worked for me.

In part out of frustration with Spotify, and in part to hedge against streaming disappearing one day, I'm in the process of ripping my exiting CD collection to FLAC, and buying either digital or physical copies of my favourite albums.

I've found it pretty refreshing to open my music app (Finamp) and only see exactly what I want to.

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lacrimacida2y ago

It’s nice to be in control for once. I am getting more and more into offline consumption, and to me if quality of the media isn’t the highest but decent Im okay. My attention though is extremely valuable to me to let companies services try to mess with it.

Nullabillity2y ago

> In part out of frustration with Spotify, and in part to hedge against streaming disappearing one day, I'm in the process of ripping my exiting CD collection to FLAC, and buying either digital or physical copies of my favourite albums.

This is bizarre to me. So to punish the record industry for ruining Spotify you're... giving them even more money?

mingus882y ago

In 2024 you can buy directly from the artists in many ways that are more beneficial to them than a streaming subscription.

I make it a point to buy a couple of albums a month from Bandcamp. The artists get a much larger cut than whatever I have been streaming of theirs, and in exchange I can listen as much as I want, completely offline, without any surveillance of my listening habits.

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-much-more-money-artists-e...

Yodel0914OP2y ago

Yep, I buy from bandcamp where I can. Where I can't (usually bigger artists) I can usually buy from qobuz.

Yodel0914OP2y ago

Who said I wanted to punish the record industry?

I'm not sure any of my issues with Spotify (pushing podcasts and audiobooks, nonsense UI changes etc) have anything to do with the record industry.

Nullabillity2y ago

The record industry are major shareholders in Spotify. They are effectively one and the same.

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0 pointsYodel09142y ago0 comments

I've found it pretty refreshing to open my music app (Finamp) and only see exactly what I want to.

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lacrimacida2y ago

Nullabillity2y ago

This is bizarre to me. So to punish the record industry for ruining Spotify you're... giving them even more money?

mingus882y ago

In 2024 you can buy directly from the artists in many ways that are more beneficial to them than a streaming subscription.

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-much-more-money-artists-e...

Yodel0914OP2y ago

Yep, I buy from bandcamp where I can. Where I can't (usually bigger artists) I can usually buy from qobuz.

Yodel0914OP2y ago

Who said I wanted to punish the record industry?

I'm not sure any of my issues with Spotify (pushing podcasts and audiobooks, nonsense UI changes etc) have anything to do with the record industry.

Nullabillity2y ago

The record industry are major shareholders in Spotify. They are effectively one and the same.

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