This is why 20 years ago we had CDs and ripped them to hard drives. Streaming is a sham when you pay continually for access.
TIL: 20 years ago was just yesterday. Go buy CDs! They still make them!
My whole music library is local and DRMless. I find CDs highly impractical in the age of cheap high-capacity storage. I would rip them anyway, as using normal copies is just far more convenient, after which they'd need to either waste space, be resold or be thrown out. If I were insistent on paying and there was no DRMless option, I'd rather buy a DRMed copy corresponding to the one I downloaded.
I pirate basically everything, but streaming music isn't a sham. You pay for the catalogue and the recommendation feed. Getting anything close to an actual streaming platforms variety and convenience through piracy is hard and frankly not worth the effort.
You pay for the catalogue and the recommendation feed.
...and the artists get peanuts.
I listen to a lot of music. like, a lot. and yet from my calculations the artist I've listened to the most during that year still didn't get even a dollar from my listens. and with how absolutely garbage the Spotify app has become, I've resorted to just archiving my entire collection online in lossless format and buying albums I particularly like on Bandcamp every now and then. it costs me less than an ongoing subscription because one purchase is just one or two month's worth of Spotify Premium, I get to keep the music even if the service goes down, I don't have podcasts that I don't want shoved in my face, and the artists I like actually get something from me.
I pay to continually rip music from them, best of both worlds.
You wouldn't be able to point me in the direction to learn about such things, would you?
CDs were sooo much more expensive than streaming. I would spend $12 to $18 per CD in early 2000's dollars and buy multiple CDs per month.
This feels like trying to explain forests to someone who only wants to tell me about their favorite tree.
I get how the technology has changed. As an elder millennial, my entire life has been a constant shift of technology. From analog to digital, and back again- from betamax to DVDs, from 8 tracks to tapes to pocket rockers to mini discs to ipods. And including resurgences as people "discovered" the benefits of vinyl.
My point is that this new paradigm has shifted ownership of what we pay for away from consumers, to give gatekeeping power to corporate entities that can shut down, or shut off access, on a whim. And what's the ROI? Increasing access costs without ownership is just a more expensive lease.
I am simply arguing that physical media puts consumers in a greater position of control over the property they have paid for than streaming. And I am intimating that it's by design that technology "leaders" have moved away from allowing people to OWN what they buy.
Whac-a-mole.
Is that like guac-a-mole?
On mobile i use mutify, which simply mutes audio whenever an ad starts. Dead simple and works like a charm!
Same but different. I use spotube.
Still working on my end, but don't know for how long, if they kill it, it might be the time I pass to tidal or say fuck it and just start using again my old mp3 player app
I think they are fine with that since you presumably don't pay then anyways. You just cost them money.
And I'm perfectly fine costing them money, I would pay, were they not enshittifying music streaming and paying peanuts to the artists.
Actually, I might try and find a new patch if they block this one to keep costing them money out of spite.
Yeah, sure free is nice. But complaining about it imo comes across as pretty selfish.
I'm still able to use spotube without a plan, and no ads.
Spotube shows Spotify playlists but uses YouTube music for streaming.
Funny how that works.
And I can download the songs, too.
A big middle finger to both of them.
In all fairness, I wouldn't even pirate YouTube music. Recommendations are shit
There is Spotify revanced now!!! Its working fine for me Atm. Lots of revanced apps now. Search for revanced manager.
Remember folks you are paying your enemy to fuck you...
then do pika face...
maybe learn the lesson: corpo is your enemy, don't pay them UNLESS THEY EARNED IT.
these slop cloud services are really stepping out of line and there is a solution that's better anyway.
you been playing a lot of cyberpunk, choom?
Blaze way down the rebel path! Death to corpos.
never got into it tbh... but i am aligned on the thesis!
Hah you were just using some of the game’s lingo
i played enough haha
That's ridiculous.
They only fucked with people that didn't pay them and pirated their apps.
Revanced :)
The client APK that I'm running appears unaffected.
XManager stopped working for me a while ago. Unsure why.
Can still use Spicetify on desktop?
SpotEevee on iOS, can confirm that it still works.
Edit: the article finally loaded and saw that they’re fighting APKs. Good luck to them but iirc so far no developer was able to defeat piracy on Android.
lol goodluck
Vanced download manager. Revanced you tube music.
Spotify can suck dick.
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