Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

• ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Man, I had around 10 gigs of vintage mp3s that is created since the days of Limewire/Napster. Uploaded it all to Google Music and lost track of the external I’d had the collection stored on. Whatever, it’s all in the cloud now.

  Then it wasn’t.

  I really, Really, need to back up all of my Gdocs, just in case that service ceases to be.

  (I wonder if ancient crunchy low bitrate mp3s will be an aesthetic, the way that dusty vinyl or worn out tapes are?)

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  • enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wonder if ancient crunchy low bitrate mp3s will be an aesthetic, the way that dusty vinyl or worn out tapes are?

    wildergardenaudio.com/maim/

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  • Dentzy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You might want to check music.youtube.com, I still have my (GMusic) uploaded collection available there, I cannot upload new, but what was there still is. Just mentioning it in case you are still looking for your music.

    That said, yes, downloading (pirating or not) and setting a home music server seems to be the best option.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s not necessarily your music though, it’s the closest that they found in their library sometimes. I have tons of tracks that I uploaded the explicit copy of to gmusic but my library downloads only had the censored/radio version.

      Found that out the hard way after a drive crash a few years back. Have spent a bit of time reacquiring the stuff I cared about.

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      • Dentzy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Wow! You are right, I completely forgot about that. You can listen to your music still, but it is true that is not a good way for rebuilding your collection 😟

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      • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s why I have it uploaded to a cloud service but I have the entire collection backed up on my phone, 3 computers and a few miscellaneous SD cards.

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• JokeDeity@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I used to do that and I do still have a lot of music from that time on my computer, but somewhere along the line I stopped downloading music and just started listening to it on YouTube whenever I thought of something in particular.

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