What's the purpose of music streaming services?You can find what you need on Soulseek for free and what's missing isn't on streaming platforms eitherYou can buy digital in a few clicks if you want you support music (and own the files forever)You can randomly listen to slop on Youtube if you need itIn theory the big platforms will be able to handle international licencing, especially for East Asia where piracy is lot more restricted and it's hard for music to cross the bubble but that's clearly not what they're providing. Why are people, music nerds even, paying a subscription for this?
>>130588175convenience.
>>130588175A lot of people are genuinely too technically illiterate to use slsk
OP is a retarded faggot, but it's a fact that piracy and streaming affect how you listen to music.I used to download discographies of artists I like and listened to all their albums. Now that I use streaming, my approach to music is more like listening to 1-2 albums of each artist, and trying new artists more often.
many reasonsconvenience - typing what I want into a different search box instead of the one I'm used to is SO much hassleeconomics - the stock market is basically propped up by big tech these days. extremely wealthy people's investments and pension funds depend on the continued financial dominance of these vast corporations. refusing to participate in their enrichment is literal communism. its no better than using an adblocker.conformity - all my zoomer friends use spotify. it would be cringe not to do exactly the same as everyone else
>>130588216>I used to download discographies of artists I like and listened to all their albums. Now that I use streaming, my approach to music is more like listening to 1-2 albums of each artist, and trying new artists more often.why not simply do the one you enjoy more irregardlessve the source of your music?
>>130588249Same reason why I used to read more books when I didn't have unlimited access to the internet.
>>130588275ah, a weak mind. understood.
>>130588175why the fuck would I not use Spotify? are you retarded or something?
>>130588642no its fine if all you listen to is Taylor Swift and Olivia's Rodrigo and you're pleb enough for all the music you like to be on Spotify and you don’t mind being literally force-fed AI slop at every opportunity and you're too scared of the internet police coming round to check if all your files came from legal sources and you're sufficiently enslaved to your jew overlords and you're much, much to poor to afford a computer with a hard drive idk maybe you live in India or smthdont worry about it dude
>>130588202>>130588193>>130588242This does point to how the ability to actually use software has cratered over the last 15 years. In the 00s everyone used piracy and in the 10s streamers were popular.Now people are just fucked if they have to go outside of a catered ecosystem. Even when it just takes installing a programme. I think that this is a problem for a lot of reasons that go far beyond how it has broken the back of the independent music industry.
>>130588702yep I used to think I was tech illiterate and borderline retarded when it came to IT but then zoomers came along. seriously my parents are better with computers than the average zoomer scallywag or flibbertigibbet, and they’re even older than I am. obviously.
>>1305886421. A reoccurring subscription is significantly worse value than buying the music you listen to.2. I like owning my music. Artists like selling me their music directly.3. Spotify provides no service itself. It just rips off artists as a middle man.4. I don't like the idea of installing spyware on my devices with microphone functionality and how the usage data can be used.5. Spotify's business practices are horrific in terms of payola, funnelling listeners into its own AI slop and ultimately controlling what you listen to.By giving money to Spotify you are giving money to Sweden. Is that what you want to tell your children when they grow up?
>>130588753It's been an eye-opener for me hearing friends who are parents talk about their kids schools are begging people to get their kids using computers instead of iPads and smartphones. We're living in an age where many kids go into IT classroom having never touched a physical keyboard before.My boss has blocked out computer time for his kids now where they have to do projects together. Imagine telling that to some MSN messenger and MySpace superhacker in the 00s.
>>130588678>if all you listen to is Taylor Swift and Olivia's Rodrigo and you're pleb enough for all the music you like to be on SpotifyI don't. I listen to Rock and Electronic albums. most of it is on spotify. the rest you just add. which is much better than having to download everything from scratch. weak point unless you listen to meme music such as DJ mixes and anime soundtracks. then spotify isn't suitable>you don’t mind being literally force-fed AI slop at every opportunitywhere and when? I add albums to my library. I've never been shown or rec'd AI slop. not an argument.>you're too scared of the internet police coming round to check if all your files came from legalnobody cares about that anon. pirating is simple. I use it to backup some stuff and to add albums on Spotify that are missing.>>130588770>1time and convenience is more important to me than saving 6$ a month>2 I have a backup for my favorite albums and hundreds of CDs and vinyls. I still use Spotify.>3they don't pay enough but the best alternative, apple music, is shit on desktop.>4just deny the permissions? what could they possibly get from you anyway>5 they are not controlling what I listen to though? I ignore the recommended section 99% of the time and when I click on it it's virtually always some obscure numero group band that clearly profits from Spotify algorithms which is a good thing
>>130588906So you pay $6 a month for a UI.>just deny the permissions? what could they possibly get from you anywaylol. lmao even.>I ignore the recommended section 99% of the time and when I click on it it's virtually always some obscure numero group band that clearly profits from Spotify algorithms which is a good thingNow ask yourself why the algo is pumping them.
>>130589045I dont care about my listening habits being collected. your arguments are pathetic cope. and how is pumping indie bands a bad thing even
>>130588906>most of it is on spotify. the rest you just add. which is much better than having to download everything from scratchum no downloading things once and keeping them is far superior than having to go through this insane process of downloading music and supplying it to a service which you pay every month to supply you with music in some bizarre and laborious inversion of the traditional concept of paying money and getting something in returnstill, at least you know the megacorp wont incrementally increase costs and reduce the quality of service in the coming years because thats never happened even once in the history of technology no siryou are a parboiled frog and dont even realise it
>>130589204they improved the quality to lossless and there are more albums available overall. you can't name one good reason why I should ditch Spotify right now
>>130589204downloading music, cleaning up metadata, converting formats, making sure the same files are on your phone in case you want to listen to an album while hiking is the insane process
I looked on Spotify a few times for some stuff I've been listening to recently, maybe ~10% of it was there. Utterly fucking useless. I daresay they can supply all your Daft Punk and Radiohead needs though.
>>130589753What do you listen to?
>>130589792idk how to answer that really except here's my last 6 months top 50 artists from lastfmObviously it was some of the more obscure stuff I checked because of course Spotify has The Beatles etc but it seems like as soon as you put a foot outside the mainstream its a waste of time.
>>130588193This is the only answer It's easier to pay a few bucks a month to "rent" the music and have it all whenever you want on any device
>>130589879I only recognize nurse with wound and beatles, heh
fun fact: theres a little known clause in the spotify t's & c's that says the ceo can come to your house and ream out your shitbox whenever he feels like it, and he actually takes advantage of this proviso once a day with a random and unsuspecting account holder. now, with many millions of users its vanishingly unlikely he will ever appear at your door but he gets round that practical limitation by doing it on a metaphorical level every time you listen to music.worth knowing, for sure.
>>130590034Chaos A.D. is an alias of Squarepusher
>>130590071that's not cereal
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