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This is much more efficient than to download them every time you play them, which is the standard behaviour.
by snvzz 5y ago
This is much more efficient than to download them every time you play them, which is the standard behaviour.
- Gigachad 5y agoThey don’t download every time you play them. They are cached. You can also download them in the app so they stay local and never redownload. You just can’t get them out of the app.
- snvzz 5y agoSo it takes the same space, without being equally useful? These streaming services are even worse than I thought they'd be. No way I'm ever giving up my local lossless audio collection.
- FabHK 5y agoWhat do you expect? A streaming service that gives you an "Export/Save as..." feature?
- IMTDb 5y agoFYI, these exist. They are called DJ pools. (Eg: https://www.zipdj.com https://www.zipdj.com) Cost is roughly $35/month
- comprev 5y agoIn addition, DJ pools often contain music and extended club mix friendly edits of songs. Radio tracks that might start off with just vocals might have a "extended club mix" which has a clean 16/32/48 bars of instrumentals before the vocal kicks in. The same for the outro.
- numlock86 5y ago> So it takes the same space, without being equally useful? Can you elaborate "equally useful"? The only problem I could see is that you can't play them anywhere but in the app. So what? If you were to copy them around (and most likely share with other people for free) you are violating their ToS (and other legal aspects) anyway. > No way I'm ever giving up my local lossless audio collection. Good news: You don't have to. Streaming services are called "streaming" services for a reason. You are apparently not the target audience and that's completely fine.
- zild3d 5y agoto play devil's advocate, what happens when your lossless audio files (which take up a fair amount of space) no longer all fit on your mobile device? Do you have software to rotate them out? What about when you want to listen to a song that isn't local anymore? Sounds like you need to invent streaming with caching
- neumann 5y agoKodi+yatse over vpn is an amazingly good and easy to setup Spotify+Netflix for your own collection. Stream or Download albums/movies from your home server to your phone from anywhere.
- pferde 5y agoOr just go old school, and use something like Icecast from your home server. Years ago, I used to have a MPD + Icecast setup that streamed audio to my phone over OpenVPN, and it worked flawlessly.
- snvzz 5y ago>what happens when your lossless audio files (which take up a fair amount of space) no longer all fit on your mobile device? A non-issue. I don't take music with me, or listen to music on the go. I'm not glued to a phone's screen either.
- rowanajmarshall 5y agoThen you're an edge case, which is absolutely fine but you're not Spotify's core audience.
- maybe_pablo 5y agoI have jellyfin[0] installed on my home server, then use finamp[1] on my iphone to listen on the go via streaming and usually download just the playlists to the device, which eventually get rotated. [0] - https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin [1] - https://github.com/UnicornsOnLSD/finamp https://github.com/UnicornsOnLSD/finamp
- Biganon 5y agoYour audio collection, which obviously has millions of artists so you can literally listen to anything in the world as soon as you feel like it, with zero seconds of waiting time, and also you can get recommendations of new things to listen to, yeah I'm tired of people who pretend they don't understand the advantages of a solution. Spotify has revolutionized the way I listen to music and discover new stuff. And I used to have a decent lossless collection I listened to on a FLAC supporting Cowon player. But it's so much better now.
- DrSiemer 5y agoAgreed. A few years back I lost my entire collection, due to a hardware malfunction and a slightly careless backup policy. But even though it was full of potentially great music I had never heard yet, I tended to stick with the familiar. Since I'm on Spotify, the amount of new music I'm discovering is almost overwhelming. It's hard to keep up with my check playlist, I keep finding interesting new artists through song radio. It's also excellent for finding music in languages I do not speak or can even read. Trying to Google in Cyrillic was a pita.
- zorr 5y agoThere is a place for both. I have most of my favorite albums in FLAC for listening on my home receiver with decent speakers. But I'm not even going to bother with buying every album/song I want to listen to in the car, on mobile, in the office etc. Spotify is great for that. 10-15 euro/month and I have access to a huge collection of songs in good enough quality that syncs playlist across all my devices.
- noodleman 5y agoHow much of that collection did you pay for?
- cerved 5y agointo AppData on windows which bloats the c drive and why I switched to the web app
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- mellavora 5y agoexcept for some reason on my phone my "downloaded" albums seem to remove themselves if I haven't listed to them in a while. Discovered this on a recent flight. Airline didn't offer in-flight wifi. Tried to listed to an album which I'd downloaded but taken out of my regular rotation, and it just wasn't there.
- comprev 5y agoNetflix does this too but at least warns you. It's because of the licensing with the record labels.
- ricardobeat 5y agoSpotify on my machine has a 1GB+ cache. If you listen to the same song more than once, it will be most likely cached already.
- dharma1 5y agoPlus they can track the plays and pay the artist (even if it's pennies). If you just rip them there's no way for Spotify to track plays and pay the artists