>you're entire music "collection" on a streaming app you're forced to listen to commercials for or pay the goyfee every month just for no commercials>its servers go down or your phone/PC bricks, you have no musicRemember in the 90s when you'd actually buy music in a store and there were no commercials ever? You paid cash for the CD/record and that was it. The idea that you'd pay money per month to listen to music with no commercials would have been considered ludicrous.It's like bottled water. No one believed bottled water would be successful because water is everywhere and free - but the bottled water merchants proved people value convenience over quality.
local artists are generally active in their community and produce vinyl
You can literally download local copy music right now.
>your phone/PC bricks, you have no musicYeah you'd have no music if you had individual files on your phone or PC either.>But muh CDsMy main spotify playlist has 3000 songs in it, and I listen to thousands of other songs not in that playlist too. At any time, anywhere. I can download songs to my phone to listen offline as well. I can find music based on the music I already listen to. I can see the lyrics. Spotify is a good service. Just because something is a subscription doesn't automatically make it bad. Now go ahead and call me a goy, NPC, normie or whatever.
>>538582763Here's what I use...>for listeninghttps://symfonium.app/https://www.navidrome.org/>for downloadinghttps://sabnzbd.org/https://www.qbittorrent.org/downloadhttps://github.com/Jackett/Jacketthttps://headphones.codeshy.com/vip/>for hosting it allhttps://github.com/louislam/dockgehttps://ubuntu.com/download/serverhttps://www.proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-virtual-environment/overview>hardwarehttps://www.amazon.com/Beelink-S12-Pro-Generation-Intel/dp/B0BW8JSQCHsomething like that or similar.You can rip your own CDs too and put them on navidrome which is a fork of subsonic. Works with most hardware media players too, all of these things are free and open source. Unless you buy your music DRM free don't bother paying anymore.
I never stopped pirating music.
>>538582763>he doesn't use cracked spotify
>>538586159fucktard kys
>>538589333Link
>>538589733don’t tell the zoomers lol. Crazy how we had no music before spotify and we just had to buy cds man that was rough
>>538582763>not storing all your favorite music locally ngmi
>>538583950>3000 songsyou should be 18 to post here
Your own fault for using the service when there are so many other ways to listen to music.It's like shooting yourself in the foot and then complain that your foot was shot..
>>538589733ur gay lol
just use limewire retard
>>538589733Kek stay mad faggot. Get fucked.>>538586159Based annon. Keep helping the zoomies and other retards with less excuses. Zoomies don't have the same opportunities to learn that we did.
I've literally never used Spotify. YouTube Premium is the best sub anyone can have.
>>538586159damn you're like that bald guy in the Matrix who operates the computers
>>538594750why do you like it?
>>538582763You can still buy vinyl. I do.
>>538595233I hear vinyl is making a comeback and selling vinyls is a lucrative side hustle.
https://github.com/SpotX-Official/SpotX
>>538595161Other than making money selling slots on muh family plan, I dont get ads even on muh TV. I always have something going on my phone.
>>538586159Based knower
>>538582763Jeff was close with the owner of spotify
>>538582763all of that shit is retarded. the radio is superior. no fee, no algo, no data
>>538582763you what ?picrel my NFSMW (2005) playlist
Internet is dead soon. I'd say 20% of the music and movies on my hard drive are nowhere to be found online. Not even with a subscription or online shopping.
>>538582763Yeah we should return to buying music. Music quality would increase because artists and producers would make more. I‘d rather have a thousand great songs I can listen to forever than being able to choose between millions of songs
>>538582763You can still do this. It's a choice of convenience more than anything, for me anyway. I have a shitload of old CDs, some I burned in like 2001 that still work kek
>>538582763I still buy CDs and rip them into my own MP3s with my ps3. Whatever else I need, I rip into MP3 straight off of youtube using a media grabber app. I also sub to spotify just for the extra options and the sound quality is better when you sub, so... don't be a poorfag. If you're into CDs, look into SHM-CDs from Japan. The quality is top tier and even the MP3 rips are better from an SHM-CD.
>>538582763Just pirate it ffs
>>538596709At least rip to .wav anon
>>538582763i have an mp3 player
Just let my subscription expire. I recently got an older car with a CD player. Slowly collecting a library. They only cost $2 at most thrift stores. I got motivated to dig out my old iPod and torrent the albums I haven't found yet. Don't miss Spotify in the slightest.
my music career on spotify has made me two dollars. i have been an artist for 6 years on there
>>538596753I would but MP3s are the most universal and I can share my entire library with my normie frens and famiry, many of which are tech illiterate.
>>538596846>tech illiterate.Many such cases
>>538596827Imma upload my ai songs
>>538582763>he doesn't have his entire music collection downloaded onto multiple USB drivesngmi
>>538586159Jesus christ. Why do you people over complicate the simplest things?You download shit off soulseek and then you just play it back with a player.
>>538596510>return to buying musicI'll keep buying vinyls.I like the big artwork.Also sounds nice and really warm in my headphones.
>>538582763>>538583950Just use yt-dlp to download music off of Youtube. I also have a large collection of 1920's country music in 78RPM format. I actually can't believe people use Spotify when YouTube fucking exists (and has much more music too, do you think someone is going to upload some country singer who made 5 78's in the 20's music? No.)
i cant cash out until i reach 7 dollars
>>538596275Which movies and music? I'm interested genuinely. People upload the turn of the century music that I listen too all of the time...
>>538597092I'm envious anon. I think you should be hit with the billionaire tax.
>>538582763>Bottled waterI don't drink bottled water and honestly don't see the appeal.
>>538596876My aunt for example is extremely wealthy but prides herself on NOT having an internet connection or even a fucking laptop.>Oh no waaay so many scammers on there...keks
>>538582763>The idea that you'd pay money per month to listen to music with no commercials would have been considered ludicrous.No, we had Columbia House CD clubs, radio commercials, and print mailers. You didn't escape advertising then either.
>>538597489facebook is a scam. and you just know she would end up there
>>538597489its true though
>>538583950I will call you a goy, you just spouted ad lingo as if it justifies anything
>>538582763ok makes games free and also on youtube
>>538582763I buy records, I never do (((subscription services))), If I want it digitally I'll pirate it.
>>538597600>>538597691True, but I can't imagine not having access to the world or even my frens (you) here, etc.It's like she thinks the literal boogeyman is going to get her if she goes online. Hey, maybe she's right. FYI, I deactivated my facebook account sometime around 2017 but still use messenger app to communicate with some of my grammar school classmates, etc.
>>538597987The internet is more dangerous than real life now. Way more crime happens on there than outside
>>538582763 Used it for 5 years now. Spent around $1000 for 6 People. So not really much. Can download everything at will through third party tools. The Discovery actually saves me money compared to searching the internet for new music.Basicly i've saved money thanks to spotify. No way i would have curated 5000 songs in 10 years without spotify.
>>538595443>side hustleGo be a nigger somewhere else, nigger.
>>538582763I have a DVD reader/burner under my bed in a box, if I can't get a song/album in physical form, I pirate it and put in on a DVD which I play in my car
>>538598084>Basicly i've saved money thanks to spotify. No way i would have curated 5000 songs in 10 years without spotify.Youtube?
>>538598038Yes, but that reminds me of my grandmother who was afraid to step on an elevator, etc. I've lived my entire life in NYC and no trouble, so... maybe I'm the exception that proves the rule.
>>538598084I have pirated over 30k songs in a time frame 2012(9 yrs old) until now, basically the first thing I learned to do when I got my windows XP machine was to pirate
>>538598084Even the fact that you are curating is a loss. You're just grooming yourself into some obscure tranny discord of hyperspecific algoslop songs. Radio is free and takes no effort and connects you to your local community, and the songs are better than algoslop
>>538598239Are you a kike?>My aunt is extremely wealthy >You live in NYC
>>538598318Cringe. Music isn't meant to be played on command. It's supposed to be ephemeral. Get a radio nigga
I have a massive collection of FLAC dating back to the days of oink/waffles/what, and I still use Spotify for the car and the gym. it's the one subscription I purchase, for my TV I torrent everything and put it on plex
>>538598390I use radio sometimes, but radios here only play the local music during the night (60% of the transmission have to be local music) so they jam their local songs throughout then night while they play western trash during the day to be popular
>>538598339Italian-American, actually.>inb4 NiggerWe're Neapolitans.
People use spotify so that they are freed from the decision of what song to listen to next. That's it, that's the entire thing. There's nothing stopping them from pirating music and listening to entire albums. They don't want to do that.It's not really about convenience, for the reasons OP listed. It's actually annoying and inconvenient that they charge money or have ads and you have to listen in their app. It's 100% about not having to make a decision, not having to THINK. People hate consciousness more than anything else, hence the popularity of drugs and algorithmic feeds.
Spotify is literally the single worst way to listen to music.
>>538582763>The idea that you'd pay money per month to listen to music with no commercials would have been considered ludicrous.The nigger has never heard of premium music channels on cable tv damn I'm getting sick of larping zoomers.
>>538583950ok goy
>>538598540imagine letting sloppa be your dj
>>538589777fmhy dot netteach an anon how to fish
>>538595443Can't I just have a hobby without trying to make money off it? Vinyl sounds good and I have holders on the wall to display the cover art.
>>538598540personally i just use spotify for the social media aspectyet again i am prob the only zoomer on this website
>>538599917I didn't even know it has a social media aspect lmao. What, do you like DM each other playlists? Fucking gay dude.>>538599766It's worse than you can possibly imagine my friend. People are HYLICS.
>>538599917>spotify for the social media aspectMy girlfriend tried getting me to make Spotify playlists with her. I just hate Spotify so much.
The entire music buying experience was a commercialized shitshow back then. That's why there was so much angst about selling out. The peak CD era you're nostalgically looking back on was the death of music. You think it was more "authentic" because people got their music from what labels paid to show on MTV and prime time radio slots instead of an algorithm? It was the same labels calling the shots. You turned on MTV and saw music videos labels paid to air. You went to the music store and saw posters labels paid to have hung in the windows, and "featured" CDs they paid to place at the front of the shop. You'd open your new CD and 5 insert leaflet ads would spill out telling you all about upcoming albums from the hottest new bands all the cool kids were listening too. All ads all the time.
>>538599999bonding over music is the most intimate way to get foids lusting over my BGC
>>538599999>DM each other playlistsIf you sub, you can share your playlists on your profile page. Many dating sites are connected to spotify also, so you get pussy points there as well. It's hardly the best way to access music, but as I said earlier, most normies are there so it's worth the minimal monthly amount from me. Still, if you're an audiophile, CDs, particularly SHM-CD is the way to go.
>>538582763Nothing is stopping you from buying CDs, ripping them and downloading your digital backups to you device. It's also completely legal under US law to have digital backups of your owned physical media.
>>538590827>he's never deleted a songYou must be 42 to post here.Yes. You, specifically, because you're an immature faggot.
>>538600349Personally I'm just getting lean enough for visible abs. I will seduce foids entirely with my body. Fuck personality.>>538600385I see. Yeah, not doing that. I don't listen to much music anyway, especially the songs that come out these days. Thanks for the check though I'm proud of those digits.
>>538600880>I'm proud of those digitsAs you should be. Stay based.
