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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by elevaet »

jonhohle wrote: post #20
cdrini wrote: post #10

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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…

While it’s more of a treasure hunt, I really enjoy browsing for and buying physical CDs, especially second hand. Albums are often $1, they sound as good as when they were released and they’re easily convertible to any other audio format, including lossless, 16-bit, 44.1khz formats. The only thing better is SACD, but finding that is like a diamond in the rough and ripping it is its own challenge unless you have the ri…

> People are crazy for vinyl, but CDs are just _so_ convenient.

I feel like I might be punished for stepping out of line here but CDs sound better than vinyl too.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by walthamstow »

jamesponddotco wrote: post #40
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?

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.

I'm the same, but with Deezer, the Deemix downloader and Plexamp.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by nobody9999 »

paxys wrote: post #38
reaperducer wrote: post #31

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iTunes and Amazon have pretty much every song you'd want to buy. Nope. Not even remotely. Only if your taste in music is very narrow. Just this weekend I tried to buy some Christmas songs that were popular and common on the radio in the 80's. I could only find about half of them on Amazon or Apple Music. Most had some version available, but not the canonical one I grew up with. Some didn't exist at all.

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>The volume of music available for an average person anywhere in the world to purchase today is many orders of magnitude greater than any era in the past.

You are 100% correct. But not for the reasons you imply. Music recording is just barely 120 years old, and mass market music media sales are, perhaps 75-80 years old.

And since many of those recordings are still around, with more music being recorded every year, it's no wonder there's more music available now than there ever has been.

That said, Sturgeon's Law[0] applies to music as well as everything else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by SpotifyClosed »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #158
spondyl wrote: post #131

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Anecdotally speaking, Spotify has become a sort of cultural default for a bunch of people. If you're in a DM or a group chat, you may not hear "You should listen to X by Y" but rather "Check this out: https://open.spotify.com/blah " At my current workplace and a previous one, both had Slack channels for sharing music and they were 99% Spotify links. Partly because of genuine Spotify usage but even not using Spotify a…

Spotify doesn't require you to create an account to hear a song from what I recall, so why wouldn't someone send you a link? That's what the web is for. That said once you have heard it on Spotify, yeah you might want it on your service provider of choice so as to add it to whatever equivalent of playlists there are.

The previous comment was already absurdly america-centric. But with this response, the cake is taken. I have never been sent a spotify link, nor do people really over here, because you need an account.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by joking »

One of the best services I get from my Nas is the ability to save the music there and be able to stream to my phone. I prefer to buy some music and have it there than relying in any subscription service.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by BoredPositron »

rumori wrote: post #169
wintermutestwin wrote: post #136

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Apple Music = few users?? From what I could tell when choosing AM over Spotify, the latter has a lot of playlists for discovery and I would never use my streaming service for discovery as it encourages the service to promote music it is paid to promote. Of course AM is annoying too because 3 out of 5 navigation icons along the bottom of the UI are for discovery. But AM has Siri integration, which works some of the ti…

I used to use Apple Music but when my Credit Card expired I missed two months payment and Apple happily deleted all of my playlists and library. I don’t think they realise how bad this is, but I will never use it or subscribe ever again.

You missed two months of payment and you are angry that a company closed the account? Boy do I have to tell you a story about what you can lose by not paying your AWS bill for two months… I am curious how you handle customers that do not pay and continue to not pay instead of just ending their subscription.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by hatsix »

prmoustache wrote: post #116
meeb wrote: post #99

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Downloading large collections can be a pain though, one at a time and in zips. I made this to help though https://github.com/meeb/bandcampsync Bandcamp is the only place to sensibly buy music you can own these days which is pretty depressing.

what about online music shops like bleep.com and 7digital?

"Fun Fact", 7digital is owned by the same parent company as Bandcamp.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by [deleted] »

freetonik wrote: post #149
wintermutestwin wrote: post #136

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Apple Music = few users?? From what I could tell when choosing AM over Spotify, the latter has a lot of playlists for discovery and I would never use my streaming service for discovery as it encourages the service to promote music it is paid to promote. Of course AM is annoying too because 3 out of 5 navigation icons along the bottom of the UI are for discovery. But AM has Siri integration, which works some of the ti…

Apple Music has been utterly awful on desktop for years, with virtually zero positive progress. I made this angry video [1] 4 years ago, and have tried using Apple Music multiple times since then, and it never failed to disappoint. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8ZikfrpFU

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