Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK
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You have more albums than I have individual files, I don't even know where I would find so much to download.
I usually just get it from YouTube currently
Soulseek
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I know bandcamp has its issues but I check there first for good flacs, I'll even settle for mp3s. I look REALLY hard. Not there? Ahoy.
Edit: Other places I try to buy first to support artists:
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I guess that depends very much on your partner and the relationship you have together..
and if it's pretty much a stranger?
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Personally, the open source community's aversion to algorithms is what's holding me back. Say what you will about them, but I've found many great songs thanks to Spotify's algo.
I've found many juat streaming themed internet radio on Radiodroid.
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Should never have left it behind to be honest.
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and if it's pretty much a stranger?
I would say, that that would be ok
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Is this FOSS? Is it on GitHub or can I get it from another app store like F-Droid?
Nope, itās a Spotify alternative made in France which emphasize on paying a fair share to the artists and providing a great music quality.
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Don't threaten, just do it!
I don't get why people are so stubborn to move away from corporate products.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I hate Spotify and would like to stop paying them even 1/5th of a family subscription. But I have researched alternatives and haven't found one that meets my need to manage offline files, playlists, and the current playback session across many (and I mean many) devices.
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as an independent artist I just wanna add: the best thing you can do to support artists and bands is to buy directly / on bandcamp. spotify pays shit to artists, you need millions of listeners to get any meaningful amount of cash
of course that isnāt a sustainable option if you listen to a lot of different music. so piracy is an option that I wouldnāt mind. hell, if you like my stuff and just write to me Iāll send you mp3s for free
Preferably on Bandcamp Friday
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All my CD's got ripped (and re-ripped) to mp3 in increasing bitrates as storage increased. Bandcamp is where almost all my musicians release anyway, and I've got over a thousand albums through them, happy in the knowledge I support the artists in a fairly direct way.
Sure, I've still got an Apple Music sub (which sucks at times because licensing means a compilation gets split into several albums when whatever deal happens in the background expires). But I'll easily find new music, grab it and give it a go, and if I like it enough I'll dig them out on bandcamp. At some point I'm gonna quit that platform.
Planning to get a modern mp3 player to go offline with my music at some point. Or maybe rebuild the old iPod and put Rockbox on it and hook it up to my linux desktop.
I found it was well worth ripping to flac securely using EAC (no idea what the modern setup is).
As then I knew I had a perfect copy to make whatever MP3 I wanted in the future from.Nowadays, I convert everything to V0 for portable use, but who knows what the future may hold.
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You should already be doing that anyways with the phantom artists scandal, thousands of fake artists made with AI so Spotify doesn't have to pay real people.
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Latest Spotify crackdowns on revanced apps and a very recent GrayJay plugin issues made me look into Spotify cracking scene. I found an app that works. But for how long?
After they killed spotube, people are going back to the old hacked Spotify, but since it's not open it's way more risky, and maybe that's the intent, to make people scared of using them.
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as an independent artist I just wanna add: the best thing you can do to support artists and bands is to buy directly / on bandcamp. spotify pays shit to artists, you need millions of listeners to get any meaningful amount of cash
of course that isnāt a sustainable option if you listen to a lot of different music. so piracy is an option that I wouldnāt mind. hell, if you like my stuff and just write to me Iāll send you mp3s for free
This exactly. Pirating is still preventing the artists from getting paid for their work. Choose to buy albums from companies like Bandcamp over just simply stealing their work.
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as an independent artist I just wanna add: the best thing you can do to support artists and bands is to buy directly / on bandcamp. spotify pays shit to artists, you need millions of listeners to get any meaningful amount of cash
of course that isnāt a sustainable option if you listen to a lot of different music. so piracy is an option that I wouldnāt mind. hell, if you like my stuff and just write to me Iāll send you mp3s for free
not in a lossless format?
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The worst was watching porn on spotify...
Yeah, like wtf, thereās even more soft core porn in YouTube.
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YouTube music wonāt play in the background though
It does for me though? Unless you don't pay I guess? On android you can patch this with revanced, or use custom players
I don't pay for music unless I buy the track or album.
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YouTube music wonāt play in the background though
It does for me though? Unless you don't pay I guess? On android you can patch this with revanced, or use custom players
What's revanced? I'm not especially keen to give Google my money either. They fall into the category of businesses that have way too much money and power already.
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What's revanced? I'm not especially keen to give Google my money either. They fall into the category of businesses that have way too much money and power already.
Itās basically a patcher app to apply some FOSS changes to your regular apps (ex: modify the YouTube app to add custom features, remove ads, add background play, bypass some otherā¦)
I believe they have patches for YouTube music to remove ads and add background playback for non subscribers
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as an independent artist I just wanna add: the best thing you can do to support artists and bands is to buy directly / on bandcamp. spotify pays shit to artists, you need millions of listeners to get any meaningful amount of cash
of course that isnāt a sustainable option if you listen to a lot of different music. so piracy is an option that I wouldnāt mind. hell, if you like my stuff and just write to me Iāll send you mp3s for free
wrote last edited by [email protected]Don't forget to tell them to go to the shows!!
Musicians are real people who very often hold live performances in high-population locations, you can see them directly with your eyeballs, hear them directly with your hearholes, and physically hand them actual cash with your flesh and blood hands!
Edit - To the people complaining about ticket company charges: You need to get into your local music scene and the +95% of bands out there who aren't big enough to play venues that have ticket company contracts. There is a world of music out there completely free of that system and you're neglecting it.
