After the age of 8 all i've ever known was the internet. And of course before I turned 8 I was just a young child.
you could put mp3's on an old phone with the foobar app, basically an mp3 player that way. if that's still too "Smart" then used CD's are super cheap, back in the day you would have your jewel cases at home and just have a carrying case of favorite discs on rotation. or in a pinch you'd just travel around with the one CD you had in the Walkman that day and leave the carrying case at home. replace this all with cassettes if you like, though those are analog and the tape will wear over time. you will look cooler though
>>130491857Live shows and CD players still exist. You can even be a hipster and buy an LP player.I dunno why you would bother though (aside from live shows), even Spotify offer lossless audio nowadays
if you want to carry your music around, a decent mp3 player would be your best bet
>>130491939i sympathize with not wanting to be a frog in boiling water, as a musician and music-listener i hate spotify and yet i still use it for convenience and find myself clicking on its recommendations randomly. even though i go to a million shows and buy shit on bandcamp it feels like i'm falling for it sometimes
>>130491857We've got FLAC players now.Even ones that can do Bluetooth I'm pretty sure.
>>130491966Spotify recs aren't necessarily bad, I founds some stuff that I really love through the Spotify algorithm. As long as your entire taste isn't based on what Spotify feeds you, there's no harm in checking it out occasionally
>>130491966I didn't start using Spotify until 2018. Prior to that, I built up a very substantial local storage of music I discovered through obsessive research and hunting around online from 2003 to 2018. Once I started using Spotify, I simply copied by local storage 1:1 so that my Spotify playlist represented everything I had amassed up to that point. The recommendations I get based on this are absolutely ideal for me.
lmao its insane to me that people have become so dependant and incapable. just download your shit. store your own media on your own devices, control your own access to it.for music, for most people, soulseek should be all you need.
>>130492128Spotify is just too damned convenient. The only problem is that it doesn't have literally everything, occasionally there's a band that's not on it, but that is rare enough for the app to still be to most comfortable and straightforward way to listen to music 95% of the time.
two things about spotify>the CEO funds military drone technology>supports digital ID "age verification"
>>130491857There are still plenty of CDs and vinyl records you can buy to enjoy music with. Hell, you technically don't even need electricity to play vinyl records. There are thousands of technoskeptics out there like the Amish for example that still mostly just listen to music with their old phonographs today and they love it>And of course before I turned 8 I was just a young child.True but surely your earliest memories are from before this right? I remember when I first gained consciousness and it was when I was between 3 and 4 years old.
Also, learn to play an instrument. Grab an acoustic guitar, and even if you never learn anything beyond the basic open chords that's pretty much all you need to strum along and sing anything. That's how most people enjoyed music before recorded media even
>>130491966Based.>>130491988>>130492027>>130492216Spotify is poisonous to music and culture. It's also pathetic that you're having a soulless corporation spoonfeed you. Suckling at daddy Ek's teat for a morsel of music that you could have easily found yourself.
>>130492216I feel like the convenience is overstated, personally. If you’re not clueless, its just a matter of typing what you want in a different search box.Also I think people have become so soft, idk if thats even the right word for what Im trying to say, but if they have to make one or two more clicks, maybe wait a minute or two for an album to dl the first time they listen to it, they’ll be rolling their eyes and saying omfg this is SO much hassle. When its really nothing, the effort involved is minimal, and it genuinely frees you from a little bit of that internet/online service dependence which is becoming ubiquitous for so many people.
>>130493621I never illegally downloaded music but I've done in countless of times for movies and shows. And yet I still leach off people's streaming service accounts because just going on HBO Max and watching whatever the fuck I feel like and being able to watch it instantly with 0 effort is SIGNIFICANTLY more chill than downloading it.
>>130493359>I remember when I first gained consciousness and it was when I was between 3 and 4 years old.Me too I don't know why this isn't talked about more often. I very specifically remember having a vivid dream and then waking up one day and being conscious.Anyway OP, buy CDs.
once you wean yourself off Spotify, you'll never want to go back. Local music+rym+last fm is just that convenient. Plus we got hella flac downloaders nowadays than just slsk. Sptfy also puts you in a comfort zone where you mostly end up listening to the same albums/ random playlist slop that doesn't matter. With local music, you're usually more deliberate with your listening, u end up exploring more etc
>>130491987flac over bluetooth is completely pointless no matter what device it is.
>>130491857This picture is unsettling.
>>130491857Go to your local library and rip discs to your laptop
>>130493569Spotify is poisonous if you pay for it. If you don't know how to use premium for free, I don't know what to tell you. Most of the artists I get recs for are extremely niche and I never would have found them otherwise. If enough people steal Spotify premium, then it will die as a service, and at the end of the day, I'll still have found many niche artists because of Spotify, and they'll have my support whether or not Spotify thrives.You know what's worse than Spotify? Driving a car. Eating a hamburger. Smoking cigarettes. I will personally never have a Spotify subscription, but if you think people who do are poisoning culture, then make sure you're consistent with your ethical choies.
mp3 player, files, no wireless, no calling home to lastfm or anything else
