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Personally, I have a TIDAL subscription, download everything I like from there, and then store everything on a Plex server. While not legal, having the subscription fix any moral problems I’d have with the idea.
How are you downloading from Tidal?
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I use a mix of Qobuz and Bandcamp and have been happy with them. https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/shop https://bandcamp.com/
Qobuz removed a range of releases a couple months ago at short notice, including from users' accounts. Hopefully their catalog remains strong as it's about the only online-only store with lossless that has a wide variety of mainstream artists. I'll also mention: Bleep.com, Boomkat, Ninja Tune (label that directly sells), Junodownload.
What was the deal with this?
It would be fantastic if this site were a pwa that supported the chrome api [1] that lets you share directly to it on android. I would make a pr but my company owns all my ip and getting an exception takes months :( 1: https://chodounsky.com/2019/03/24/progressive-web-applicatio...
Won't help you now OP, but I've always negotiated an IP carve-out for any product(s) that I develop that: A. Are developed with my own hardware B. Are developed outside of hours of employment C. Are not designed to compete with existing company products Every place I've worked with was amenable to these terms, but I always make sure to get it IN WRITING .
What is the largest company you've successfully gotten to agree to these terms?
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 still buy CDs. It's true a number of modern artists do not release on physical media, although vinyl is making a comeback.
Try BookOff, yard or estate sales, or "friends of the library" events. You will burn some time searching, but the hunt can be fun on its own.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/spotify-military-industrial...
I have to deal with spotify links sent to me often and this is great. The better link would be to the actual service page, not github repo: https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/ It would be fantastic to have this as an extension for us, Firefox users. I hope someone makes one someday.
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I Don't Have Spotify should add Bandcamp support. Bandcamp is great for just playing the music too.
It's not. Artists will often enough remove old albums so you can no longer play them. Buy it, download as FLAC, put in your preferred local infrastructure to play. Plex/Plexamp works well, as does local file storage and a good command line music client if you're less GUI-friendly or don't have the resources for running them.
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A few years back, I did an apples-to-oranges test of an album I had on vinyl and CD. The vinyl version probably sounded better (usual BS about warmth and whatnot) but the CD sounded very, very good and it was way closer than I was expecting. It had been ~15 years since I'd listened to a CD on a real stereo and I'd totally forgotten how good they can sound. I'd certainly been swayed by the vinyl enthusiasts in the int…
Disc rot is not a thing for factory pressed CDs, assuming normal storage. Cheap CDRs from ~2000 or so did have the issue. My CDs from the 80s and CDRs from the 90s are working fine.
I know of a even more impressive website that will transfer playlists from Spotify (or 20 other platforms, including text files) to 20 other platforms or a text file. I will share the link, but don't hug it to death y'all. :) https://app.tunemymusic.com/transfer