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I realized that I don’t have a single mp3 on my machine these days. If I stop paying the bill I will have nothing to listen to. What have we done?

dgellow 2y ago
If you stop paying the bill you still have access to YouTube, Spotify, and others
- sub7 2y ago
  Nothing lowers my opinion of someone than when they decide to control the music and ads randomly blast out of the speakers
  - shiroiushi 2y ago
    Ads? What ads? With uBlock Origin on Firefox, and SmartTube on Android TV, I never see ads on YouTube. Ads are for people too lazy to install ad-blockers.
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Semaphor 2y ago
Depending on your genre preferences, Bandcamp.com might be for you. I buy 4-10 albums every month there, downloaded as FLAC for archival purposes, streamable on all my devices via jellyfin
llm_trw 2y ago
We have much higher engagement entertainment than music to keep us occupied.
Hamuko 2y ago
>What have we done? You mean "what have I done".
paulcole 2y ago
> If I stop paying the bill I will have nothing to listen to. What have we done? We’ve created one of the most amazing values and uses of technology of our lifetimes? Streaming per month costs so much less than a new CD did 25-30 years ago. And it’s so so so much better than buying a new CD a month. If the average person keeps paying the (quite small) bill, they can listen to essentially anything they want to listen to (unless they have very peculiar tastes — please do not reply to tell me that the obscure 1907 ragtime classic you need to listen to is not on Spotify). It’s incredible!
- esskay 2y ago
  This assumes you work on the principle of continuously buying new music. If you're someone with a library of ~2k songs and that doesnt change in any real way for years on end it probably doesn't stack up as well, especially when cd's are so darn cheap these days, being able to pick up ~5 full albums on CD for the price of 1 month streaming with little effort for example. Obvious point about not owning it either, so if an artist or whole label decides to have a fight with your streaming provider, sorry tough luck, you just lost them from your library.
  - paulcole 2y ago
    > Obvious point about not owning it either, so if an artist or whole label decides to have a fight with your streaming provider, sorry tough luck, you just lost them from your library. I’ve never had this happen so far. What makes you think it’s likely to happen? > If you're someone with a library of ~2k songs and that doesnt change in any real way for years on end it probably doesn't stack up as well This assumes you work on the principle that you’ve found “enough” music vs. that you lost interest in investing in new music because of the cost of buying it.
    - eviks 2y ago
      > I’ve never had this happen so far. What makes you think it’s likely to happen? The fact that it's already happened, and not once? Google "recording label removed from spotify" for No.1 examples such as this: "Spotify has removed Indian record label Zee Music Company’s catalog after negotiations for a renewal of their licensing agreement fell through. As a result, the No.1 track on Spotify in India over the past two weeks, “Apna Bana Le” from the soundtrack to the 2022 Hindi Examplesfilm Bhediya, is no longer available on the platform. "

dgellow 2y ago

If you stop paying the bill you still have access to YouTube, Spotify, and others

sub7 2y ago
Nothing lowers my opinion of someone than when they decide to control the music and ads randomly blast out of the speakers
- shiroiushi 2y ago
  Ads? What ads? With uBlock Origin on Firefox, and SmartTube on Android TV, I never see ads on YouTube. Ads are for people too lazy to install ad-blockers.

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Semaphor 2y ago

Depending on your genre preferences, Bandcamp.com might be for you. I buy 4-10 albums every month there, downloaded as FLAC for archival purposes, streamable on all my devices via jellyfin

llm_trw 2y ago

We have much higher engagement entertainment than music to keep us occupied.

Hamuko 2y ago

>What have we done? You mean "what have I done".

paulcole 2y ago

> If I stop paying the bill I will have nothing to listen to. What have we done? We’ve created one of the most amazing values and uses of technology of our lifetimes? Streaming per month costs so much less than a new CD did 25-30 years ago. And it’s so so so much better than buying a new CD a month. If the average person keeps paying the (quite small) bill, they can listen to essentially anything they want to listen to (unless they have very peculiar tastes — please do not reply to tell me that the obscure 1907 ragtime classic you need to listen to is not on Spotify). It’s incredible!

esskay 2y ago
This assumes you work on the principle of continuously buying new music. If you're someone with a library of ~2k songs and that doesnt change in any real way for years on end it probably doesn't stack up as well, especially when cd's are so darn cheap these days, being able to pick up ~5 full albums on CD for the price of 1 month streaming with little effort for example. Obvious point about not owning it either, so if an artist or whole label decides to have a fight with your streaming provider, sorry tough luck, you just lost them from your library.
- paulcole 2y ago
  > Obvious point about not owning it either, so if an artist or whole label decides to have a fight with your streaming provider, sorry tough luck, you just lost them from your library. I’ve never had this happen so far. What makes you think it’s likely to happen? > If you're someone with a library of ~2k songs and that doesnt change in any real way for years on end it probably doesn't stack up as well This assumes you work on the principle that you’ve found “enough” music vs. that you lost interest in investing in new music because of the cost of buying it.
  - eviks 2y ago
    > I’ve never had this happen so far. What makes you think it’s likely to happen? The fact that it's already happened, and not once? Google "recording label removed from spotify" for No.1 examples such as this: "Spotify has removed Indian record label Zee Music Company’s catalog after negotiations for a renewal of their licensing agreement fell through. As a result, the No.1 track on Spotify in India over the past two weeks, “Apna Bana Le” from the soundtrack to the 2022 Hindi Examplesfilm Bhediya, is no longer available on the platform. "