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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Can't even seek through songs.

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Who tf uses Spotify without a premium account?

I'd rather pirate that shit that use it for free (I like to hit next all the way).

IMHO Spotify is one of the few services that it is worth to pay.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (5 children)

If they gave half that profit to the artists on there, maybe. But they give about 10% iirc. Give up with these services and just buy the CD, vinyl or whatever. Then listen to your hearts content.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

Buying or even pirating literally thousands of albums just wouldn't be feasible for me. Way too much cost, effort, and time. Spotify is well worth it for me as a consumer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

i listen to too much music to be shuffling around CDs while driving

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We don't rip CDs anymore so you can store them as MP3s on your phone? People have forgotten how to do that? I'm getting old.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

no i do that too with stuff that isnt on spotify. most recently with Dagmar Krause's Tank Battles. but, again, i wouldnt have enough storage space to download all the shit i listen to even if i had all of the CDs ripped

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn, you must have a massive collection. Solid state memory is fairly cheap these days, even for flac.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

i mean i could get a TB sd card for my phone. but im lazy and spotify has most of what i need right there lol

and yeah i have a massive collection, 25,378 songs liked on spotify

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Quantity over quality eh? I hope that doesn't happen to subscription-based gaming.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How much can I get for one of them bananas?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

depends on what you want. all shapes and sizes (especially big size)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Many people that did that have careers and families and a general opportunity cost for their time. Ripping CDs is so unbelievably far down on my priority list it doesn't even register.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What? It takes 5 minutes to pop your new CD in the drive and let Windows Media player handle it for you, track information included.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

can i borrow it for the forever

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

"And so Bittorrent was invented..."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Buy it on Bandcamp and download it. Or rip it to mp3/flac. Then blutooth the phone to the car radio.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

bluetooth is not on my car. also Bluetooth quality sucks. also id be spending thousands of dollars to buy all my music

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not all artist release songs on albums or the albums were limited release and are hard to find, but spotify has them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Go to Bandcamp. Its usually there. Of course that site is in the shit for now thanks to their staff being laid off after a buyout, but the bands are still getting the money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I buy the the digital release to support the band and just keep listening on Spotify. At that point the band won't get more money out of me for the songs and I get the covience of Spotify

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cough cough xmanager cough cough.

On github or xmanagerapp dotcom cough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I checked that and still don't know what it does...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Basically enable those very features that were disabled in the free version

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

As I understand it it gives you features that were available in earlier Versions? Sounds nice! But I guess it won't give you access to premium content right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That would enter the pirate subject wouldn't it?

Anyway yeah using the free option provided by Spotify seems like the worst case scenario.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's basically premium except you can't download the songs and something else I can't remember.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure they also have a version that can download for offline playback with some caveats

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It also doesn't include the car thing either.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I agree with you here. There may be a better service out there, but I certainly haven't found it yet. I use Spotify in my car (via USB to my phone), in my kitchen, master bath, living room and kids rooms on Google mini's or Amazon Echos... And I don't have to go out and download anything, it just plays what I want when I want it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

those who listen to podcasts. i can download them and they're commercial free.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I think Spotify is a poor podcast client, compared with the competition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Well, I use Pocket Casts and it has volume booster and trim silence options, as far as I remember Spotify had none of those.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I use it for podcasts. Those exist outside the normally restricted music playlist stuff.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Never paid for a service which uses internet,NEVER!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I think Real Debrid is worth it.