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Spotify essentially solves music for me. I'm not a huge music fan. I like the stuff I grew up with, and very, very rarely something recorded in the last 10 yea
by marcus_holmes 2y ago
Spotify essentially solves music for me.
I'm not a huge music fan. I like the stuff I grew up with, and very, very rarely something recorded in the last 10 years. I don't study music, rarely actually listen to the lyrics, don't care about the quality too much. It's always background to what I'm actually focusing on. And the less it distracts, the better.
I used to have a few Gb of music, but deleted it all [0] because Spotify fills this niche now.
I pirate books if they have DRM, video all the time. But not music, because (as TFA says) Spotify has basically solved that.
[0] I'm sure I have it all on a backup somewhere. Just in case Spotify enshittifies further.
- a-french-anon 2y agoWell, for the kind of people using music as background, I'm indeed sure Spotify does the job perfectly well.
- prmoustache 2y ago> I used to have a few Gb of music, but deleted it all [0] because Spotify fills this niche now. And now instead of reading bits from your local storage you are increasing your carbon impact by streaming from somewhere else...with pretty much 0 actual value.
- marcus_holmes 2y agoNo, I have my playlists set to download in Spotify, so I play them locally too. And if you want to go there then consider the environmental impact of physical media. There's entire landfills full of vinyl records, cassettes and CDs. Streaming is the best environmental option out of all of them.
- prmoustache 2y ago> No, I have my playlists set to download in Spotify, so I play them locally too. Fair enough. > And if you want to go there then consider the environmental impact of physical media. You can buy music without purchasing a physical media. In that case you download once. I have a number of records I purchased from Bleep and 7digital.