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Massive Attack to take all songs off Spotify
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You should already be going back to piracy. Spotify is scamming you and artists.
fun fact:
Jellyfin works for music (and audio books) just as well as it does for movies and TV shows!
And being open source, there are apps specific to certain use cases. Like on ios there's Finamp for music and Plappa for audio books.
It also streams in FLAC quality!
Plex also has Plexamp which works great for music, if you’re like me and got the lifetime Plex pass long ago.
Lifetime Plex Pass here too. I got it long ago.
I still migrated my server and uninstalled it once I tried Jellyfin for a few days because of the performance difference alone.
yee, so far I haven’t found anything close to Plexamp on features that I want, that lifetime license paid for itself a long time ago
The piracy service still sucks compared to Spotify.
Another annoying part about this is how well everything is integrated.
All of that is driven by monopoly which is bad, sure, but shit's convenient af
Yeah I've trying to get away from Spotify for years. I still pay for Tidal and yt music too but Spotify service is unmatched by anything out there. It's not even close.
I used an old ipod to put my songs on, as well as an old iPhone since Apple.has a decent default music player versus the free version of Spotify.
Because piracy is way better for artists
I would guess it has a healthier impact on artists as a group than Spotify does, yeah.
Probably I should develop other habits, but I find hard to improve the amount of good discoveries I got through Spotify with barely no effort... I do the effort to "obtain" those I like from time to time, yet still the effort is low, efficient and worth of it
My fear is, when do those turn into trashy AI music so they don't have to pay artists.
I have doubts trashy AI music can trigger me at all... in any case nothing is forever, so I am paying attention to the drift in the offer and quality, at current pace my forecast is that within 5 years my musical habits will have drifted away from spotify to something I do not know yet...
The only continum in my whole life is my ever growing offline library, modernized with technology pace, and that is fed regularly and more likely will be preserved... and if someday I lost everything, I will still have my love for the music I find worthy to remember...
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