I Don't Have Spotify

I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by zxexz » Tue, Nov 12, 2024, 12:08 AM UTC

alpinisme wrote: post #7

excalibur wrote: post #5

Not seeing Pandora, apparently 46 million people still use that as of 2023

46 million active users or 46 million accounts created?

I’d believe either, though the latter feels tiny. Pandora is still better than any of the others listed for discovering new music, IMO. Spotify always seems too conservative with its suggestions, making it worse for discovering new music. Subjective, of course.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by cdrini » Tue, Nov 12, 2024, 12:08 AM UTC

askonomm wrote: post #8

I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?

I've been doing this, and here in Canada https://ca.7digital.com/ is literally the only option I've found that let's you buy normal MP3s, would highly recommend. I've been able to get modern albums without a hitch, but don't know about modern singles. I think in the US Amazon let's you buy MP3s, but not sure there.

For the price of a Spotify subscription, I can usually buy a new album every month! Which is great; and I love slowly growing my album collection.