The fact is that no one with a genuine interest in or love for music would allow their access to said music be dependent on the whims, machinations and stratagems of a tech megacorp, given the near invariant history of such companies progressively reducing quality of service and ease of access while simultaneously raising prices.
>>130061871neet cope. Plus hard drives cost money too. And with people like you, you have to consider a good chunk of that memory is taken up by child porn.
>>130061910Its telling that the butthurt of the streamcuck is so strong the only riposte you ever hear is wailing and bleating about irrelevant sums of money. This isn’t really a financial decision, except in the sense that no one likes to feel that they’re getting a shitty deal. Neither the cost of storage or the cost of a subscription is a significant expense. As said in the OP its primarily about access being guaranteed over the long term, and the many conditions that access might depend on, payment being only one of those and a minor one at that. I will note though that if you're a Soulseek user, which software shows the location of its users, there are basically no Thirdies using it. You never see almost never see Indians or Africans because poor people use free Spotify.
>>130061910your entire music library on AAC/Opus/Orbis can fit in an iPhone 11, maybe an iPhone 17 or MacBook Air if you're brave enough to use Flac, no need for external storage.
>>130061871all this seethe about access and nothing about the backfire on the creation of music
>>130062063I think people who care about making music will always make it. While the dominance of services like Spotify make it more difficult to make a living from it for less mainstream artists, other services like Bandcamp can also make it easier for for them to get their music to its audience. Mainstream music is headed the same was almost all other mainstream culture, directly down the shitter.
>>130062106the absence of crowds and audience about emergent music is owed first to a fragmented structure of annoitment of the truth teller, the most inalienable centre of music, and second... that truthtelling is preyed on, the same old story, if you willwhats to be expected though when baal and moloch are as well fed as they are
spotify is just fine for the casual listener. you can just stick a playlist on and forget about it, it doesnt really matter if it slips some AI stuff or a few ads in its just background anyway isnt it, its not as if youre really paying attention.
>>130062197wtf
>>130062225youre right to be afraid
>>130062240>picis that elden ring
>>130062254its a picture of me from my infant years
>>130061871Yep. Torrenting is the way to go
>>130063716torrenting, slsk, buy digital, buy physical, new or 2ndhand, whatever works for you. the point is that literally anything that lets you own your music is better than streaming
>>130061871I use Spotify to discover new stuff. I found 2 new songs just today as I was driving around. I can't do that if I just listened to downloaded stuff.
>>130064977yes, Spotify is now the only way its possible to discover new music>this is how the zoomer thinkschrist
>>130061871i listen to peter thiel funded artists only
>>130061871I like apple music as an alternative for spotify, the artists definitely deserve a much bigger share though.
>>130065067lol unc is getting ragebaited by someone using spotify :sob: its just better vro, also checked ts numbers are tuff bro lowkenuinelySIX SEEEVEN SIX SEEEVEN
