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Just the other day, I discovered a rather incredible ambient/drone album using a nonstandard tuning [1] via Spotify's Discover Weekly, and excitedly pinged all

Just the other day, I discovered a rather incredible ambient/drone album using a nonstandard tuning [1] via Spotify's Discover Weekly, and excitedly pinged all my art-music-liking friends about it. [1] Trances by Jules Reidy: https://juliareidy.bandcamp.com/album/trances https://juliareidy.bandcamp.com/album/trances

pmontra 3y ago
I looked for it on YouTube (via Invidious) and found it. Not my kind of music but that's not the point. The point is that if somebody likes to keep a copy of some songs discovered during a day of autoplaying through YouTube, downloading them is very easy for anybody that wants to. Maybe it's easy to do it also from Spotify but I don't use it so I have no idea.
- sunshowers 3y ago
  I'm not actually sure how to do that on Spotify. But for albums I like, especially lesser-known artists making music of various kinds (I tend to lean heavily towards electronic music broadly described as "experimental"), I generally just buy them on Bandcamp and put a copy on my NAS.
- crazygringo 3y ago
  If you pay for Spotify, you can download songs/albums/playlists in the app if you want them offline for a flight or somewhere else you won't have access to internet. It's a single tap. (And you save songs you like with a single tap too -- and even if they lose rights, which is extremely rare but happens, you still have a record of liking it.) Obviously that's not giving you a local .mp3 file, but that's because it's streaming, not buying.
afandian 3y ago
After using Spotify for over a decade I moved to Qobuz, mostly on principle. Most of my library was transferred. The one thing I miss is the recommendations, especially as I like music that isn’t very mainstream. It might be that Spotify’s algorithm is better than Qobuz, or it has a huge amount more data.
- sunshowers 3y ago
  I've tried several other music platforms, but nothing has really expanded my musical horizons like Spotify's Discover Weekly. Even 5-6 years ago, most of the electronic music I listened to was relatively mainstream like Boards of Canada (BoC is great music, don't get me wrong). Last year, the album I listened to the most was Se Ve Desde Aquí by Mabe Fratti [1]. [1] https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/se-ve-desde-aqu https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/se-ve-desde-aqu

pmontra 3y ago

I looked for it on YouTube (via Invidious) and found it. Not my kind of music but that's not the point. The point is that if somebody likes to keep a copy of some songs discovered during a day of autoplaying through YouTube, downloading them is very easy for anybody that wants to. Maybe it's easy to do it also from Spotify but I don't use it so I have no idea.

sunshowers 3y ago
I'm not actually sure how to do that on Spotify. But for albums I like, especially lesser-known artists making music of various kinds (I tend to lean heavily towards electronic music broadly described as "experimental"), I generally just buy them on Bandcamp and put a copy on my NAS.
crazygringo 3y ago
If you pay for Spotify, you can download songs/albums/playlists in the app if you want them offline for a flight or somewhere else you won't have access to internet. It's a single tap. (And you save songs you like with a single tap too -- and even if they lose rights, which is extremely rare but happens, you still have a record of liking it.) Obviously that's not giving you a local .mp3 file, but that's because it's streaming, not buying.

afandian 3y ago

After using Spotify for over a decade I moved to Qobuz, mostly on principle. Most of my library was transferred. The one thing I miss is the recommendations, especially as I like music that isn’t very mainstream. It might be that Spotify’s algorithm is better than Qobuz, or it has a huge amount more data.

sunshowers 3y ago
I've tried several other music platforms, but nothing has really expanded my musical horizons like Spotify's Discover Weekly. Even 5-6 years ago, most of the electronic music I listened to was relatively mainstream like Boards of Canada (BoC is great music, don't get me wrong). Last year, the album I listened to the most was Se Ve Desde Aquí by Mabe Fratti [1]. [1] https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/se-ve-desde-aqu https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/se-ve-desde-aqu