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Honestly, this is what will eventually bring me to abandon Spotify. It sucks so hard not being able to listen to that one weird niche song you stumbled upon, but instantly fell in love with. And they never tell you "Hey, our license for this song is running out in six weeks and we won't renew it. Better listen to it again while it lasts.".
I wish I could just buy all the songs I favorited on Spotify and not have to deal with any of this absolute nonsense.
At the same time their recommendation engine is extremely good and that's what makes it hard to abandon Spotify completely for me.
I'm going to get downvoted to hell for half but as a long time Spotify user, I switched to YouTube music last year because of the recommendations. I guess it depends on what it listen to, but I found that Spotify if I listened to one thing for a while and then wanted to go back to what I was listening to a couple months ago, all my recommendations were the new thing, like they decided I just didn't like the old thing anymore 🙁
If you want to try some niche music service there is resonate.coop which encourages exploration by making it cheap to listen to a song once. However, if you like the song and keep going back to it it will be considered "purchased" and you will no longer be charged when you listen to it. Last I checked there was no offline mode for purchased songs but they were working on it.
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Fair enough. Personally, I always stream music through YouTube Music. Never downloaded stuff because I don’t need to. I’ve got fast mobile internet with good coverage and I never really leave my city.
I’m not really into music enough to notice if things disappeared. Can’t say I’ve noticed that, but I’ve heard similar complaints from others. As long as there’s enough 80’s and 90’s bangers, I’m content :D