Fuck you Spotify! I download my mp3 just like cool kids did 20 years ago, and it suits me just fine!
Tbh, the worst part is when you pay for it and still get ads anyway. Feels like double dipping, but it’s obviously going to happen because wall street doesn’t like when line only goes up a little.
Yeah that’s totally galling. Shrinkflation for online services.
You know some shiny-suited corporate asshole got a huge bonus for coming up with that though.
Enshrinklification of the internet
Welcome to cable TV in the late 80s…
Yeah it’s crazy. We have TV plan with some 100 channels bundled up with internet, and sometimes rarely when I watch TV I’m just baffled by the fact a paid service still is full of ads
The price of playing skyrim for every minute of my life until I die
With game pass: Over $9000.00
Just buying the game: $59.99
Me but with Factorio and even more hours
2000 hours gang, where y’all at?
59,99 on every platform the game gets released on because Todd won’t stop
I don’t hate subscription based services if they’re priced fairly and make sense.
Paying monthly for a service that then starts giving you less, adds more premium plans, introduces ads, etc. is garbage.
Paying for a game, then having to pay a monthly fee to play (WoW, for example), is garbage.
Paying for software, but then having to pay monthly to use the software, is garbage.
Paying for software, but then having to pay monthly to be allowed to contact support (Blue Iris), is garbage.
But paying for things like Spotify, where you get access to pretty much all songs as they release, have no limit on how much you listen to, and it has a fair student pricing or family pricing, that’s fine. Way better than paying per song.
I mean shit, if I paid for every song I have in my library on Spotify, I’d owe $1430. My Spotify is $17 per month, spit between 4 people, so I pay $4.25. I can either pay for every song in my library and not add any more, or pay for Spotify for 28 years and continue growing my library…
Spotify is the only subscription I still pay for. That’s it. Everything else is whack
Learn to torrent and throw Plex or Jellyfin onto your computer then you have your own Spotify and Netflix
Plex doesn’t offer everything Spotify can though.
Use the Plexamp app
I know Plex can stream music but it does not have a ability of discovery like Spotify has. Not even YouTube comes close.
For those who set music trends, spotify is a must.
Not sure if you mean finding more music or having people find music you create. If you intend for people to find your music you created on a private self hosted platform you obviously need to look elsewhere but if you want to find new music to listen to there are still options.
You can connect Tidal to your Plex and listen to any music on Tidal on Plex and get discovery/recommendations. You can also connect Plex to Last.fm and get recommendations that way. If you want to manually discover music you can use a site that does that like everynoise.com
Never pay any of this services BTW, I have no regrets and I never feel that I miss something.
If it’s free, you’re the product
We used to pay a one time fee for software and we paid for big updates. I miss those days
Unless you pirate.
Or buy it in a one time payment.
In fact, you’re pretty much the product in every one of these examples, even if you pay
Pirate everything. Pirate streams, torrents, whatever.
Pirate. Everything.
*unless it’s an independent artist of some sort. then, just buy some merch from them or something.
