Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK
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tf is spotify "fans"? more like spotify "users"
Fans of things that are provisioned by Spotify.
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If I am paying for my account personally, with a card in my name, what more do they need?
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I don't mind giving my date of birth to all the services I already pay for with credit card but face scanning? That's just creepy. Fuck off.
It is 1970-01-01 like me, no?
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Tidal is pretty good these days. Qobuz too
And Bandcamp
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what's even the point of age gating "explicit" music?
"oh no! "Speak To Me" by Pink Floyd has the fuck word in it! can't let my kids hear it!"
Just get me the kid bop version
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There's a wide gap between "travelling to another country" and "listening to music."
I'm not trying to go on holiday to Spotify
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If I am paying for my account personally, with a card in my name, what more do they need?
wrote last edited by [email protected]They want to scan your face to get as many images of people of stated ages to feed into their facial recognition system. Do not for one moment think it is for anything else.
Edit: it is like how Facebook had a 10 years ago you looked like this! Post a new comparison photo today!' Specifically because they want to know how people age for their AI shit.
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what's even the point of age gating "explicit" music?
"oh no! "Speak To Me" by Pink Floyd has the fuck word in it! can't let my kids hear it!"
wrote last edited by [email protected]We live in a rural part of Canada that has been left behind by modern times. Mostly by the choice of the residents. I grew up during satanic panic. It was crazy here. My wife and I let our kids listen to anything they want. They always have. They're 10 and 12.
Their friends often comment about swear words and "sex, drugs and rock and roll" themes of the music they listen too. As an old man I get to regale them with stories of how crazy the Christians were over heavy metal and punk rock when I was a kid, including their grandma.
Now I yell "you're gonna go to hell!" As a joke to them every time their friends bring it up and I am around.
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Tidal is pretty good these days. Qobuz too
And Bandcamp
Bandcamp is owned by union busters. Only use on Bandcamp Friday for best effect.
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They want to scan your face to get as many images of people of stated ages to feed into their facial recognition system. Do not for one moment think it is for anything else.
Edit: it is like how Facebook had a 10 years ago you looked like this! Post a new comparison photo today!' Specifically because they want to know how people age for their AI shit.
Well sure, the real reason is always data harvesting.
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Piracy preserves media.
Piracy preserves art.
Piracy makes sure, that future generations still have access to the creations of humanity.
Data hoarding is a service to the public.
I initially perceived piracy similarly to how or perceive reading about archaeology and such, so the fact that someone is sincere in hating p2p copying and calling it immoral just felt preposterous.
Yet now it seems plenty of normies will agree. Then go listen to something they didn't pay for on YouTube or Facebook or whatever, because "everybody uses that". What "everybody uses" is fine, see. What they condemn me the pirate for is using ed2k, torrents and such other technologies. Even when I'm literally downloading public domain stuff or abandonware.
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Source for this?
Not the one who mentioned it but I was curious about this as well and found this;
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Tidal is pretty good these days. Qobuz too
And Bandcamp
Tidal is pretty harsh on vpns and my whole network is behind something most of the time
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Personally I could never get into the whole Spotify and Pandora thing. I want to listen to what I want to listen to and when I want to listen to it, without ridiculous restrictions and rules. YouTube has honestly been the far better choice for music for me.
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Tidal is pretty good these days. Qobuz too
And Bandcamp
I'm having a pretty good time with Qobuz. Their curated collections are actually really good and I've found a lot of new stuff in there; it's not the "here's what the record label is shoveling this week" like on Spotify. Also, the high bitrate stuff... I hate to admit it, but it really does sound better.
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I am trying the following services the next few months:
Tidal, deezer, qobuz and piratingI heartily recommend the last two.
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Buy and store your own music. HDTracks and 7Digital both sell high quality DRM free downloads, or you can just swing by your local Walmart or Dollar Store and grab some CDs to rip.
Or you could go sailing, that's always an option...
Is there rippers for Spotify?
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Is there rippers for Spotify?
That I don't know. I mean you could always just use something to record the sound played by your PC, but at that point A) You're not getting as good of quality as you would from an actual download of the source material and you'd have to manually assign metadata, make sure no notifications or other sounds played, make sure your recording settings were optimum, etc. It's easier, right now at least, to just buy what you want on CD or from a store that sells digital downloads legitimately.
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Personally I could never get into the whole Spotify and Pandora thing. I want to listen to what I want to listen to and when I want to listen to it, without ridiculous restrictions and rules. YouTube has honestly been the far better choice for music for me.
Having a collection of music in files that I own has been my go-to for years. Currently VLC says I have 701 hours of music in files on my phone. That's only 29.2 days worth.
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Having a collection of music in files that I own has been my go-to for years. Currently VLC says I have 701 hours of music in files on my phone. That's only 29.2 days worth.
I used to do that and I do still have a lot of music from that time on my computer, but somewhere along the line I stopped downloading music and just started listening to it on YouTube whenever I thought of something in particular.
