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I Don't Have Spotify

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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by rsynnott »

bni wrote: post #217

The EU should mandate that this gatekeeper (Spotify) make their links interoperable with other music streaming services.

The minimum financials for consideration as a gatekeeper for the DMA are 75bn EUR market cap, or 7.5bn EUR turnover (in Europe). In the last week, Shopify's market cap exceeded 75bn EUR for the first time.

So, y'know, might be coming.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by nobody9999 »

seanvelasco wrote: post #236

this feels more like an art piece or statement, not an actual tool what if i have a youtube link and i want to stream on spotify? what if i have an apple music link but want to play it on a linux device where only spotify works? it's more likely that you discovered a song on youtube and wanted to add it to your spotify playlist, rather than browsing spotify and then deciding to listen on another platform. someone sho…

>a linux device where only spotify works?

Huh? What linux device might only have access to spotify? Pretty much every Linux distribution (with the possible exception of Linux From Scratch[0]) has multiple local apps to play music, both from the command line and via a gui in their standard package repositories.

Not to mention dozens of sites (if you can get to spotify you can get to them) that perform the same function.

Please do explain, as I'm pretty confused.

[0] https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by pjmlp »

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?

Some artists sell them directly either from the site, or at their concerts, the German region I live on still has several stores, and so far I also managed to get several MP3 albuns.

I don't use streaming platforms other than being aware of new musicians in YouTube, which I eventually buy their albums.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by pjmlp »

glitchc wrote: post #98
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 still buy CDs. It's true a number of modern artists do not release on physical media, although vinyl is making a comeback.

As someone approaching 50, the return of Vynil is quite strange feeling.

I now see record stores so full of Vynil that it feels like I timetraveled back to my teenage years when CDs started to being sold, alongside laser discs on a little store corner.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by wyclif »

dangravell wrote: post #219
Syonyk wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, downloading is important as even download sites can redact later - e.g. https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/70250-qobuz-may-be-... Another source are good ol' CDs. If you know where to look you can get them cheap too. Specialist charity shops that specialise in records and CDs in student or wealthy areas are good, as are second hand stores online. An alternative to self hosting is to use an online music loc…

Where's the best place to buy CDs online now?

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by boringg »

mkhalil wrote: post #103

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

If this does as you say it does… thank you for posting this. Ive been thinking of trying to get away from spotify but felt trapped at the playlist loss. My kid are now conditioned for instant music that might be the bigger challenge.
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