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Meh I moved back to the old trick where I torrent download bulk music and store it on my phone. No internet no problem.
I never stopped
That sounds great in theory, but the thing I haven't been able to replace is seamless discovery.
I would have trouble finding new music without torrent sites. The trackers I use have a web of related artists at the bottom of the artist page.
The users add to the community through comments, uploads, suggestions, organizing, et cetera.
Using a tracker has helped me discover music that ain't even on Spotify. It's the tits!
There's many blogs where you can discover music and unlike algorithms you get more diversity and nice descriptions. If you listen to a lot of hip hop it's even easier by looking the featured artists
Spotify does a phenomenal job of learning what I like and auto-playing a mix of things after I finish a song or album that aren't just in the same genre but are also based on my taste profile that's developed over hours of listening habits -- all with zero effort on my part. And I can still discover things via blogs too.
There just isn't anything like that available in the self-hosted world yet, unfortunately.
Lol sure. I discover all my songs from torrents.
What?
Download a torrent such as this
https://www.1377x.to/torrent/5812280/Various-Artists-Love-At-First-Sight-Soundtrack-from-the-Netflix-Film-2023-16Bit-44-1kHz-FLAC-PMEDIA/
and then I listen and keep the one's that I like kinda like Spotify discover lol but oldskool
That sounds cumbersome as hell.
I want my song to end and my player to start automatically playing similar songs that are also curated based on my larger listening habits.
That's why they take your money and data to keep a beautiful profile on you and sell it to 3rd party. You pay a premium for your liking both by money and data..Enjoy mate!
Yup, I'm paying for a data driven service that isn't possible to host myself. Good job piecing that one together, champ!
Sure thing! Always here to help in anyway possible. To get the best experience from Spotify please try their premium family subscription. They add extra goodies in it and won't track you at all. Also don't pay for an year upfront, pay on a month by month basis that way you get more features.
Lol go give Meta more data through Instagram while acting smug about privacy.
Always cute watching kiddos reach that first peak on the Dunning-Kruger curve.
Hey i am willing to give my data to meta in exchange to watch dumb naked bitches and to rub one out when I am at work. At least I am not paying with real money so thats a plus.
And there it is. Enjoy giving your data to a company proven to mishandle it so you can keep simping.
How pathetic.
I dont practice what I preach because "Women" is my weakness. Bro which app do you use to scroll through Lemmy? I got a notification of your reply but was really hard to find it.
Lol nobody's stopping you from paying with your money and data also nothing comes for free in this world unless you're torrenting. Long live pirates !!
Ha good one! Never heard of a billionaire artist. Its Always billion dollar companies.
JayZ, Rhianna, Paul McCartney, PDiddy, Jimmy Buffett are all Billionaires
And thats definitely because of Spotify yeah? And not their other business like clothing, perfume etc.
These goal posts on wheels?
You can download the songs automatically or manually on Spotify if you wish. You can set it so it can only download the song when you are using wifi. You can also turn on being only able to listen to songs you have downloaded when you are not using wifi. It is very seamless. I am lucky and live in a country with dirty cheap data plans so I don't even care for that. But it is nice it exists when I travel outside of my country.
And pirating isn't free, you and everyone who makes it possible for you to torrent is paying with your and their time and you are also paying for the risk for getting infected. But you do you I just wanted to correct the "free" part of your statement.
There's tools to rip from spotify and it's risk free. I don't see any pain in having music locally and many advantages like using better music players, control over the metadata, no chance of songs being inaccessible and no 10k local songs limit like spotify have
Lol sure. and you're paying with your hard earned money and giving them your data so that they can profile you. Use a dns logger and see how many trackers are on Spotify even when you pay. Lol Pirating isn't free but at least I am not being profiled. Also, getting infected is for people who dont know what theyre doing. Such people always say stuff Like only install apps from "playstore". Never use any other OS apart from Windows and apple etc. Anyways you do you mate and be happy.
I earn money so I don't need to use my freetime for things I don't want to do. For example I dont make my own fabric and sew my own clothes I buy them. So it is a trading, time (hopefully fun time) for money (work) and money for time (services and things). Money is pointless if I don't use it. Why spend time working if I won't use it to buy time? And sure Spotify profile me so they can recommend music that I may like and I am fine with that because that is how I find new music anyways. I don't use services like Google because of their tracking and always try to use a browser instead of apps if possible so I can use ublocker. It is always a priority thing you know. I could live outside the society (off grid, no tech) if I don't want to be tracked or I can let some services track me because it is a lot more convenient for me in the grand scale of things.
Sure, being infected may not be a big risk for some I am only generalizing it. I am not saying you will be infected because I don't know what sources you use I only said it is a risk. There are always malicious ppl and even trusted sources can be compromised and trusted companies with payed services. Just like it is a risk to jaywalk but it doesn't mean you always risk your life doing so. But some are too naive like you said.
Just to add I am not trying to convince you, I just like discussing topics and different perspectives. I wish you happiness too.
I feel like such a boomer for doing this as well, but I've had precisely 0 issues when my internet goes down or signal gets weak. No buffering, no problem.
Been doing it since high school when I had the first-gen iPod Shuffle. Good times
Love it when I try to turn off shuffle and it takes 2 minutes to fail to enable "enhanced" shuffle first because Im out of cell reception.
It is still trying to connect to the bloody internet starting up, taking minutes as where i live connectivity is not great on a commute. Makes me turn flight mode on. RAGE!!!!
Yes, but it also switches off after some time, and I tend to like exploring new music, so have to use either switches frequently anyway. Still raging!