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I've collected music and copied my own music onto my phones and PCs for years and never stopped. Everything the major app & OS makers have done in recent years

I've collected music and copied my own music onto my phones and PCs for years and never stopped. Everything the major app & OS makers have done in recent years appears to be intended to discourage music collection now that bandwidth has me converted into a measurable utility. Even audio apps play games with how they function now in order to encourage paid upgrades to where simple "randomize", "skip", and playlist creaton no longer work as expected... I miss winamp on android more than words can say... Google's music player even stealthily deleted my purchased mp3s off my device at points, I am lucky to keep non-cloud (unplugged) SD backups of my music library ritually up to date. I will never give up keeping my own collection as long as I can... The Algorithms serve advertised music, not really the music you want to hear, and it's only gonna get worse over time. Nothing beats my music collection, it spans across multiple genres that no algo could ever emulate, and that no single site would ever be able to clear, and I don't believe I should ever have to pay a monthly subscription for music, let alone music that I already have, I guess It's not popular opinion any more. Music streaming sites do nothing to earn the money they make and that people give them, and they don't pay artists fairly at all... I write this as an artist myself.

zcal 4y ago
My suspicion is that a lot of people feel the same way you do about paying a monthly subscription, but that it's just that working to curate their own collection and keep it synced between devices is well, work. It's like the same way that the iTunes of the world "beat" the Napsters: convenience. But you've touched on one of the reasons I'm trying to de-Spotify myself. I have a lot of music that I've gathered from various sources over the years, not all of them represented by streaming services' catalogs. This includes small-time local music and stuff that's come out of Internet communities like Newgrounds and OverClocked ReMix. I want my collection to be fully representative of the things I want to listen to regardless of where it came from.

zcal 4y ago

My suspicion is that a lot of people feel the same way you do about paying a monthly subscription, but that it's just that working to curate their own collection and keep it synced between devices is well, work. It's like the same way that the iTunes of the world "beat" the Napsters: convenience. But you've touched on one of the reasons I'm trying to de-Spotify myself. I have a lot of music that I've gathered from various sources over the years, not all of them represented by streaming services' catalogs. This includes small-time local music and stuff that's come out of Internet communities like Newgrounds and OverClocked ReMix. I want my collection to be fully representative of the things I want to listen to regardless of where it came from.