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I still listen to most of my music in Spotify. But I will buy the album on Bandcamp to give the artist of albums in heavy rotation fair compensation. It is gre

I still listen to most of my music in Spotify. But I will buy the album on Bandcamp to give the artist of albums in heavy rotation fair compensation. It is great Bandcamp has flac, et . But I don't enjoy going back to the days of managing media on a filesystem and syncing between devices.

KozmoNau7 6y ago
Conversely, I tried Spotify for a while, and I won't go back to a catalogue that I have no control over, with curation that is spotty at best and non-existent at worst, and where albums can just disappear for nebulous licensing reasons. I have a catalogue of music that belongs to me, which I can sort and curate and manage exactly to my whims and desires. It's a matter of quality over quantity.
- the_other 6y ago
  I don’t understand why this got voted down. The parent echos my feelings on the matter well. Streaming is convenient for some use cases, and dreadful for others. e.g. DJing. Even Spotify fails in some of its aims: I can no longer share to, or follow now new friends IN Spotify, because I joined pre-facebook accounts and I don’t use facebook. I have to share from it via IM/email, which is exactly like if the music was on webpages/ftp/etc. So just as I have no control over the catalog, I also have no control over sharing/following friends. It is however brilliant for discovery (within the admittedly huge catalog).
  - imbnwa 6y ago
    From the amount of late 90s early 00s indie rap of my teens I've found there that has never been available on Spotify, Apple Music may have the bigger catalog.
    - the_other 6y ago
      I’ll accept your analysis. I found Apple Music worse than Spotify: the catalog changes more often, so you can’t guarantee music you tried to “keep” (with likes or downloading) will stay where you left it. Apple will delete music from your device (or otherwise lock you out of it), if you move to a geographic region they don’t have a licence agreement covering that music in that place. It’s also got terrible UX for those times when you want music but don’t know what you want. It’s playlists are rubbish and the way it promotes them gets in the way of real discovery.

KozmoNau7 6y ago

Conversely, I tried Spotify for a while, and I won't go back to a catalogue that I have no control over, with curation that is spotty at best and non-existent at worst, and where albums can just disappear for nebulous licensing reasons. I have a catalogue of music that belongs to me, which I can sort and curate and manage exactly to my whims and desires. It's a matter of quality over quantity.

the_other 6y ago
I don’t understand why this got voted down. The parent echos my feelings on the matter well. Streaming is convenient for some use cases, and dreadful for others. e.g. DJing. Even Spotify fails in some of its aims: I can no longer share to, or follow now new friends IN Spotify, because I joined pre-facebook accounts and I don’t use facebook. I have to share from it via IM/email, which is exactly like if the music was on webpages/ftp/etc. So just as I have no control over the catalog, I also have no control over sharing/following friends. It is however brilliant for discovery (within the admittedly huge catalog).
- imbnwa 6y ago
  From the amount of late 90s early 00s indie rap of my teens I've found there that has never been available on Spotify, Apple Music may have the bigger catalog.
  - the_other 6y ago
    I’ll accept your analysis. I found Apple Music worse than Spotify: the catalog changes more often, so you can’t guarantee music you tried to “keep” (with likes or downloading) will stay where you left it. Apple will delete music from your device (or otherwise lock you out of it), if you move to a geographic region they don’t have a licence agreement covering that music in that place. It’s also got terrible UX for those times when you want music but don’t know what you want. It’s playlists are rubbish and the way it promotes them gets in the way of real discovery.