when all my friends started insisting on spotify I resisted - I have 14 GB of .mp3s and .FLACs of any songs on my playlist - no ads, no connection issues, easy peasy
I mean I like spotify because it’s more social. Like you can follow all your friends and see all their stuff/ compare each others’ taste, easily make a playlist to share with someone you like, etc. Plus it just seems more instant/convenient in terms of getting new music
no ads, no connection issues
idk if you’re talking about the free version, but with premium you can automatically download all your music offline. I pirate movies/TV but spotify is like the one monthly subscription I’m willing to pay $10/mo for, because it gives me almost any released song there is, compared to streaming services like netflix and hulu which lack pretty much everything.
In theory that'd be nice. In practice I can't get any of my friends to start talking about music even when I send them niche stuff that is hyper-specific to their interests and they tell me it's great.
I use spotify because it takes less effort than pirating shit off youtube.
I mean pirating shit doesn't take A LOT of effort but certainly more than spotify. I used to pirate and I'm not saying it was crazy inconvenient, but spotify will only take me 2-3 seconds to play something new and add it to my library, can't get that with anything else
It's mainly a habit from the days of when you had to get CDs if you wanted music - I would rip them so that even if I lost the cd or it broke I'd have the songs still, and I don't have to pay anything further.
I really don't like "life as a service" in general. I will still buy music in any way that benefits the artist, like if they put it up themselves for digital download, and I can listen to it whenever without having to pay a middleman a subscription fee.
I use spotify free when it's necessary - when I was in a band, we put together a playlist of songs we wanted to cover that we could quickly reference, but I would tend to just play songs off said playlist on youtube where my adblocker covers any ads
we put together a playlist of songs we wanted to cover that we could quickly reference, but I would tend to just play songs off said playlist on youtube where my adblocker covers any ads
In like 2019 I had the free version of spotify and I think my adblocker blocked ads on the web player
Also, I find spotify's algorithm makes it easier to find new stuff and go down rabbitholes through discover weekly, song radios, enhancing playlists, etc.
For some reason unknown to me, at some point I stopped using the web app in favour of the desktop one - I should just go back to it lol.
I don't tend to stay up to date with music; rather, every couple of years I spend a full day chasing up all my favourite bands and checking out new ones and just downloading music in one big batch.
In a nutshell - this is my ethos on services:
when all my friends started insisting on spotify I resisted - I have 14 GB of .mp3s and .FLACs of any songs on my playlist - no ads, no connection issues, easy peasy
I mean I like spotify because it’s more social. Like you can follow all your friends and see all their stuff/ compare each others’ taste, easily make a playlist to share with someone you like, etc. Plus it just seems more instant/convenient in terms of getting new music
idk if you’re talking about the free version, but with premium you can automatically download all your music offline. I pirate movies/TV but spotify is like the one monthly subscription I’m willing to pay $10/mo for, because it gives me almost any released song there is, compared to streaming services like netflix and hulu which lack pretty much everything.
In theory that'd be nice. In practice I can't get any of my friends to start talking about music even when I send them niche stuff that is hyper-specific to their interests and they tell me it's great.
I use spotify because it takes less effort than pirating shit off youtube.
this takes like no effort, but being able to listen to your collection on the phone when not home is.
I mean pirating shit doesn't take A LOT of effort but certainly more than spotify. I used to pirate and I'm not saying it was crazy inconvenient, but spotify will only take me 2-3 seconds to play something new and add it to my library, can't get that with anything else
It's mainly a habit from the days of when you had to get CDs if you wanted music - I would rip them so that even if I lost the cd or it broke I'd have the songs still, and I don't have to pay anything further.
I really don't like "life as a service" in general. I will still buy music in any way that benefits the artist, like if they put it up themselves for digital download, and I can listen to it whenever without having to pay a middleman a subscription fee.
I use spotify free when it's necessary - when I was in a band, we put together a playlist of songs we wanted to cover that we could quickly reference, but I would tend to just play songs off said playlist on youtube where my adblocker covers any ads
In like 2019 I had the free version of spotify and I think my adblocker blocked ads on the web player
Also, I find spotify's algorithm makes it easier to find new stuff and go down rabbitholes through discover weekly, song radios, enhancing playlists, etc.
For some reason unknown to me, at some point I stopped using the web app in favour of the desktop one - I should just go back to it lol.
I don't tend to stay up to date with music; rather, every couple of years I spend a full day chasing up all my favourite bands and checking out new ones and just downloading music in one big batch.
In a nutshell - this is my ethos on services:
Oh god this is making me feel guilty for paying for nintendo switch online, I just like all the old games it has to offer
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