Comment on "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ShunkW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use Bandcamp and usually will wait for the days they give artists 100% of the revenue and buy everything I’ve been waiting on. You get a flac download so you can secure your purchase in case the site shuts down later, but you also have access to streaming.

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  • AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bandcamp is great too! I’ve downloaded everything I’ve bought from there, but one artist deleted their page and now I can’t download what I purchased anymore. That’s the only negative I can think about.

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    • ShunkW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I get that. That’s why I immediately download all purchases and back them up off site as well.

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  • JackiesFridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Plus, Bandcamp will also recommend new music and related artists. The recommended artists at the bottom of a band/artists’s page are listed by the artist themselves, so you can pursue music that inspired the music you like.

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    • ShunkW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah and even the front page recommendations are so much better than anything Spotify ever gave me. Bandcamp is how I found one of my all time favorite bands, Zeal & Ardor.

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