mu, software engineer here I'm looking to de-sp*tify. I listen to music literally all the time.I've tried soundcloud but the radios/recommendation algorithms for finding similar music aren't very good. I'm considering maybe bandcamp? At one point I was considering creating my own platform, one where your monthly subscription goes proportionally to the artists that you most listen to, and artists get paid in terms of listens/likes.I'm also seriously thinking of just collecting my own library again. What do people do nowadays? Is MediaFire still a thing? is t0rrenting still a thing?I support artists in my own way, via going to their concerts and sharing their music. If I had a record player I would collect records.pls mu. I need to find a new way of consuming music and spotify is not it. I'm done paying a leeching company every month. Also, here's a treat to listen to archived hard-to-find music by country:https://radiooooo.com
One nice thing about bandcamp is that you can browse bands by genre, then subgenre, then country of origin. I use it to find nova scotia folk artists. In general I just use YT music. They recently added a feature where if you click on an album, it'll give you recommendations on other albums. Has helped me make jazz/fusion picks, not that that isn't already incredibly easy just by looking up performers and seeing what records they played on.
>>129059837I suppose we consume entirely different genres of music, in different ways, but I’ve tried Spotify multiple times over the years and you couldn’t pay me to use it. The actual catalog and selection lacks a lot of music i listen to regularly, so that sucks, music disappears randomly which also sucks, also, the way they cockblock you from listening to albums in order, and the way they do ads is so annoying and offensive I don’t see how people put up with it. I always use YT music, because it has literally everything. The algo for YT music is actually pretty darn good and accurate when finding similar artists, even though I don’t use Ai algorithms to find music typically. But there’s been a lot of times I left it on auto play on YT music and it introduced me to great songs I’d never heard of, deep cuts that were very similar to what I was listening to before.if for some reason you don’t like YT music, Apple Music is a close second in terms of quality. Actually they have the highest sound quality of any streaming service AFAIK, using FLAC steaming i wanna say, which is why I really like them, YT music doesn’t have that. But alas, Apple Music has a bigger and greater selection than Spotify, and is cheaper monthly I think, but it also doesn’t have everything.You can’t go wrong with building your own collection of files though, as well as a physical media back up collection. That’s what I have. If you’re trying to build your own file collection, then just download SLSK, it can be a little confusing to navigate at first but given you’re a dev you can figure it out easy, and they also have almost everything for direct download. Once you have everything you want on your PC, throw it on a hard drive or thumb drive as extra back up copies.If you do get into physical media, i recommend doing the bulk of your collecting in the format of CDs and cassettes. they’re way less cumbersome to tote around and resell than a ton of vinyl.
But, there’s nothing wrong with keeping a small, 2-4 crates worth of vinyl collection for the rare ones that are only on vinyl, rare original or test pressings, or records you really love.
>>129059837A raspberry pi plex media server (cost around 30 bucks if u get a used pi3b+) and just download from deezer or youtube music using scripts. You can download directly to the pi, have it scan automatically, and listen to your music everywhere in the world with plexamp. It's fun to build your own library and curate all the stuff.
>>129059837Buy used CDs, from 80s/early 90s before the loudness war ruined them. Prices are still mostly good. Probably will change once zoomers notice how much better they sound than vinyl.
>>129059837Good man. Fuck Spotify. Have you tried soulseek?
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>>129059837Use Navidrome
>>129059837Just use Soulseek
>Spotify? I download my music instead
>>129059837Fuck sake, just use soulseek. Are you people literally so retarded you can't even pirate stuff?
>>129065195Or buy stuff on places like bandcamp. Or go to a record store. This really is something people should be able to figure out on their own. Shouldn't need a roundtable discussion to figure this out. It seems like spotify and others are for the lowest IQ.
>>129059837Please let it stay between us.
>softwarenigger>didnt heard of soulseekits all so tiremose
