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I'm in the same boat - have been very happily paying for Spotify family for many years, love the access to music, but hate the way they push crap I don't care a

I'm in the same boat - have been very happily paying for Spotify family for many years, love the access to music, but hate the way they push crap I don't care about. And their recommendation algorithm has never really worked for me. In part out of frustration with Spotify, and in part to hedge against streaming disappearing one day, I'm in the process of ripping my exiting CD collection to FLAC, and buying either digital or physical copies of my favourite albums. I've found it pretty refreshing to open my music app (Finamp) and only see exactly what I want to.

lacrimacida 3y ago
It’s nice to be in control for once. I am getting more and more into offline consumption, and to me if quality of the media isn’t the highest but decent Im okay. My attention though is extremely valuable to me to let companies services try to mess with it.
Nullabillity 3y ago
> In part out of frustration with Spotify, and in part to hedge against streaming disappearing one day, I'm in the process of ripping my exiting CD collection to FLAC, and buying either digital or physical copies of my favourite albums. This is bizarre to me. So to punish the record industry for ruining Spotify you're... giving them even more money?
- mingus88 3y ago
  In 2024 you can buy directly from the artists in many ways that are more beneficial to them than a streaming subscription. I make it a point to buy a couple of albums a month from Bandcamp. The artists get a much larger cut than whatever I have been streaming of theirs, and in exchange I can listen as much as I want, completely offline, without any surveillance of my listening habits. https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-much-more-money-artists-earn-from-bandcamp-compared-to-spotify-apple-music-youtube/ https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-much-more-money-artists-e...
  - Yodel0914 3y ago
    Yep, I buy from bandcamp where I can. Where I can't (usually bigger artists) I can usually buy from qobuz.
- Yodel0914 3y ago
  Who said I wanted to punish the record industry? I'm not sure any of my issues with Spotify (pushing podcasts and audiobooks, nonsense UI changes etc) have anything to do with the record industry.
  - Nullabillity 3y ago
    The record industry are major shareholders in Spotify. They are effectively one and the same.

lacrimacida 3y ago

It’s nice to be in control for once. I am getting more and more into offline consumption, and to me if quality of the media isn’t the highest but decent Im okay. My attention though is extremely valuable to me to let companies services try to mess with it.

Nullabillity 3y ago

> In part out of frustration with Spotify, and in part to hedge against streaming disappearing one day, I'm in the process of ripping my exiting CD collection to FLAC, and buying either digital or physical copies of my favourite albums. This is bizarre to me. So to punish the record industry for ruining Spotify you're... giving them even more money?

mingus88 3y ago
In 2024 you can buy directly from the artists in many ways that are more beneficial to them than a streaming subscription. I make it a point to buy a couple of albums a month from Bandcamp. The artists get a much larger cut than whatever I have been streaming of theirs, and in exchange I can listen as much as I want, completely offline, without any surveillance of my listening habits. https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-much-more-money-artists-earn-from-bandcamp-compared-to-spotify-apple-music-youtube/ https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-much-more-money-artists-e...
- Yodel0914 3y ago
  Yep, I buy from bandcamp where I can. Where I can't (usually bigger artists) I can usually buy from qobuz.
Yodel0914 3y ago
Who said I wanted to punish the record industry? I'm not sure any of my issues with Spotify (pushing podcasts and audiobooks, nonsense UI changes etc) have anything to do with the record industry.
- Nullabillity 3y ago
  The record industry are major shareholders in Spotify. They are effectively one and the same.