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What am I missing? Whats wrong with Spotify?
Pick any of those you like.
All the above points are valid except for this
You can easily download for offline listening with spotify. Even piracy will require internet connection for later offline consumption, and getting music from physical media is way more work than most realistically want to do today.
Whats the pirate discover ability fix? I miss last.fm from back in the day... Always finding great small artists.
Soulseek
https://listenbrainz.org/
Discoverability is a difficult challenge in a pirate context, imo. Last.fm still exists, so do bandcamp and soundcloud. Pandora, Soma.FM, and both terrestrial and internet radio can still work if you find the right genre. The other options include going to your local library, and your local media store of choice.
Another one that works is finding out the songwriters, producers, and engineers on your favorite songs/albums and tracking down their discography. Often enough, you'll find similar-sounding music by tracking the tech guys.
Complain about paying artists yet the article is about how they automate piracy lol
I mean, I did offer it as one of over a half-dozen reasons. And my opinion is just that you shouldn't go halfway. If you're going to pay a subscription, the artists and staff ought to get paid. Otherwise, go full pirate and if you want to support an artist, find a way to do so directly, without platforms or labels.
What's wrong with just buying their album on like bandcamp?
That not everyone is on bandcamp
Yeah but the person I replied to said not to go halfway and I simply don't understand why one shouldn't use sites like bandcamp where available.
Do we really need a federated streaming platform??
Musicbrainz is also not federated, neither is wikipedia.
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