Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify

BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That pays exactly $0 per stream to the artists.

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tell me you don’t know how Qbittorrent works without doing so. It’s not a streaming service. If you’re redownloading on BT each time you want to listen, my god, are you wasting disk space.

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    • vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You know what I meant, don’t deliberately misunderstand.

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can donate to the ones who deserve it and still have access to the drm free music locally

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• Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That doesn’t solve discoverability of new content, which is one of the good features of Spotify

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  • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s slowly being replaced with “AI content”, Spotify is literally becoming more shot by the day.

    I don’t really use it myself, but you can scrobble to services like last.fm and get recommendations that way.

    And if you want to sponsor your favorite artists, just go to their concerts or buy some music or merch. You’re paying them way more that way than your plays on streaming platforms ever will.

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  • XenGi@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it though? Seems like their algorithm gives everyone the same shit.

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you want payola? Because that’s how you get payola.

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wdym listening to new music

    This is a “those 10 good tracks on repeat” household !

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