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And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗

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  • medem@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A couple of years ago, I had a Napster subscription (the reborn, legal variant of it). At first, I was happy to have unlimited access to music, then after 2 years I realised that I was paying 120 EUR a year for music I’ll never own, so I cancelled the subscription and put my yearly budget for music to exactly that amount. It yields more than enough given I buy used CDs, and then digitalise them. That way I own the physical media as backup AND am able to transfer the digital tracks unfettered across my devices AND with no need for DRM or shitty proprietary applications.

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I only play songs once on Spotify, if you catch my drift.

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I don’t even play it :3

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  • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This would be right if not for the fact that Spotify will regularly introduce you to music that you might like and otherwise might not have heard of. That can be worth paying for.

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      We had scrobbling services before Spotify and we will have them afterwards.

      See Last.fm and ListenBrainz.org

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I would argue that this is the entire value proposition of Spotify. I may not own the music, but I have all the artist and song names. I can always re-acquire them at any time.

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still download my music. Two pros: I have control over where, when and how I listen to it. And I only download music I actually want to listen to.

    One con: Finding new music is harder (I imagine).

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    • null@lemmy.nullspace.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ListenBrainz is the solution for discovery

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    • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      One con: Finding new music is harder (I imagine).

      That’s what radio helps with, there was also Pandora, but I didn’t know if it is still alive after Sirius XM bought them.

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      • Ch3rry314@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Find an online radio station you like and you don’t need Pandora any more.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have found a ton of new music through KEXP’s YouTube channel.

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      • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thought I remembered the name. That’s where Dinosaur Jr. played a legendary set.
        Also, I just realized they did another one more recently. I’ll have to listen to that one, too.

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    • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Finding new music is harder (I imagine)

      In my opinion, it’s harder, but not even necessarily because it’s harder to do it in the end. More because it’s just harder to get started.

      For example, I find way more music I enjoy listening to through Bandcamp than I ever did on Spotify, but that requires having existing artists that I follow and can see their recommendations for, having a feel for which genres I actually like instead of a vague mental concept of what I like to listen to that I can then keyword search by in Bandcamp’s search/discover section, and hoping that the human curators on Bandcamp’s newsletter pick artists I like. Bandcamp doesn’t really have algorithms, so those are my only real options.

      It’s more effort, but it’s infinitely more rewarding.

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    • bvoigtlaender@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      One con: Finding new music is harder (I imagine).

      You actually should actually try to listen to web radio. Still have a subscription with Qobuz but been listening to bytefm a lot and they have some great djs (they have different shows at different time.). I personally found more new and great artist or songs than any algo ever did.

      One con: you’re too busy writing down the songs and you cannot really do anything while listening as you also too scared of missing something.

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      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Do they not have a recently played? Can always go back through and shouldn’t be too hard to figure out the songs. Just note the time maybe atleast.

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  • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just the albums on my favorites list in Qobuz would have been around $10,000 USD to purchase in hi-res.

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  • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You idiots don’t have a 6 cd changer in your car? Pathetic!

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    • Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, but I have a USB stick with over 100 albums on it, so I can listen to the same 5 albums all the time.

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    • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I do it the old fashioned way. Giant binder of discs I get my passenger to flip through and swap in and out

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      • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Damn a 100 cd changer then, mad respect

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Only one binder?

        Also makes since since music has not changed at all since 2003

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    • Covenant@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No man, my usb works perfectly

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  • Teppichbrand@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The internet is over, you guys. We can finally switch off our devices and take a good nap.

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    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Return it to Big Ben.

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        That’s where it has the best reception, right?

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  • oneser@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Man, Spotify were the ones who did it. Like they made the service so significantly better and more convenient than pirating that most of those pirating actually switched.

    Not a fan of the platform anymore since the heavy push for sponsored content, removal of audiobooks and the whole Joe Rogan thing, but still credit where it’s due.

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    • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The built a thing by burning investor money to artificially lower the price and sell out high on stock IPOs is still going strong I see.

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  • hellfire103@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    *laughs in physical media*

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    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      *cries in disc rot*

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  • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I washed my clown makeup off with a home server

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Yarrr.

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I usually have to listen to a song several times before it fully “clicks” if I like it or not, so music streaming subscription is great for being able to grab any song I think I might like and throw it in trial playlist. Back when I bought/acquired music, I would skip over most music I might like because the effort wasn’t worth it for a song I wasn’t sure if I liked or not. So streaming has worked really well for me for music discovery at least.

    On the bright side, I’m still getting my $8 a month early adopter price for Google music all access (now YouTube music).

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I dunno, RJD2’s Ghostwriter clocked for me immediately, among others

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      • Feddinat0r@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, thats an awesome song

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  • PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s a really narrow case.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ive only ever bought 2 CDs in my life. Have never paid to download music and never will.

    Im (my wife is) paying for the convenience. The moment it feels too expensive im back to the high seas.

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  • Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yar what if I told yee have another option

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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would have if I knew you, because it’s qhat caused pr contributed to this. If those WoW subscriptions had have flopped - we’d be in a better situation now.

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is why I set up a Funkwhale home server

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  • Ging@anarchist.nexus ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What is money for if not to waste completely when you don’t have to at all lol

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  • Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are other ways. I’ve only had problems with ReVanced Music once, and there was a fresh set of patches less than a day later.

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    • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Still dependant on a service, on them (YT/YT Music and ReVanced) continuing, and YT not breaking clients.

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      • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The post is about PAID subscription models, not being dependent on something.

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  • Mike_Hunt@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jokes on them, i have actually started to store my music on a 7th gen again

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  • superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Didn’t emusic let you download 3 albums a month for $10, but stream anything?

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  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    pw-record is gonna become the new taping songs off the radio

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  • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still pay for a Pandora family subscription, because all 5 people in my house use it; but for me - I don’t like spending all the time organizing and listening to albums, so I pick a song I want - Pandora makes a mix of songs like it, and then I rip the “station” that Pandora builds for me into files.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At least wow was worth it IMO. What a fantastic game that was.

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