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redacted is supposed to be the new whatcd using a similar interview process and all. To be fair i'm out of the piracy game when it comes to music though since

by dtx1 3y ago

redacted is supposed to be the new whatcd using a similar interview process and all. To be fair i'm out of the piracy game when it comes to music though since spotify is more convenient to use

beerandt 3y ago
Microsoft (zune) and then Google (music) have me not even trusting the convenience of paid subscriptions anymore. Even if you keep some music, you lose useful history, playlists, etc. on a whim. Even with the new YouTube music, songs I own, and added to a playlist last week are suddenly grayed out without explanation or ability to see details. Only right click option is to remove.
throwaway689236 3y ago
It's hard not to recall Gabe Newell's "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem". Steam and Spotify offer a really good service, and a lot of people find it not worth it to pirate stuff.
- dtx1 3y ago
  'specially as a linux user. Dealing with Wine/Proton on my own vs just buying it on steam and have it justwork^tm is worth it almost everytime, especially when using cheap steamkey stores.
amatecha 3y ago
Yeah I guess Spotify is okay if you don't mind half of the back catalogue of your favorite artists either never being present on the platform, or just magically disappearing at some arbitrary time. It's hilarious, I canceled my Spotify service a year ago or something, and I hopped back on recently to check a playlist as I couldn't remember a song. So many tracks in my playlists are no longer available on the service. Had me feeling pretty good about my colossal archive of purchased mp3s/FLACs from Bandcamp.
- yellowapple 3y ago
  Yep. Spotify had at one point completely eliminated my desire to torrent entire discographies, but my listening is starting to shift to Bandcamp and youtube-dl'd MP3s/M4As with Spotify getting increasingly worse both on the library front and on a technical level with its app.

by dtx1 3y ago

redacted is supposed to be the new whatcd using a similar interview process and all. To be fair i'm out of the piracy game when it comes to music though since spotify is more convenient to use

beerandt 3y ago

Microsoft (zune) and then Google (music) have me not even trusting the convenience of paid subscriptions anymore. Even if you keep some music, you lose useful history, playlists, etc. on a whim. Even with the new YouTube music, songs I own, and added to a playlist last week are suddenly grayed out without explanation or ability to see details. Only right click option is to remove.

throwaway689236 3y ago

It's hard not to recall Gabe Newell's "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem". Steam and Spotify offer a really good service, and a lot of people find it not worth it to pirate stuff.

dtx1 3y ago
'specially as a linux user. Dealing with Wine/Proton on my own vs just buying it on steam and have it justwork^tm is worth it almost everytime, especially when using cheap steamkey stores.

amatecha 3y ago

Yeah I guess Spotify is okay if you don't mind half of the back catalogue of your favorite artists either never being present on the platform, or just magically disappearing at some arbitrary time. It's hilarious, I canceled my Spotify service a year ago or something, and I hopped back on recently to check a playlist as I couldn't remember a song. So many tracks in my playlists are no longer available on the service. Had me feeling pretty good about my colossal archive of purchased mp3s/FLACs from Bandcamp.

yellowapple 3y ago
Yep. Spotify had at one point completely eliminated my desire to torrent entire discographies, but my listening is starting to shift to Bandcamp and youtube-dl'd MP3s/M4As with Spotify getting increasingly worse both on the library front and on a technical level with its app.