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There are ways you can use a Spotify account registered in another country and you basically pay about £2 a month. I’m mainly into 80s and 90s music and used Spotify to discover music, and once I come across a song I like I add the album name to a list (i.e. note it down) and find the CD from a second hand shop or failing which obtain the FLAC files some other way. This way I now have an offline library that has most of the songs that I love. Spotify will be there as long as I can just pay £2-ish but the moment they try the age verification or raise prices, its bye-bye for them.

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3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
They age verify in the UK already…
For most people though they won’t be hacking things to use Spotify. I agree £2 a month is OK but for me the issue is they charge a fortune yet pay artists a pittance

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- tangycitrus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  True. For me it hasn’t come up so far, possibly because my account is registered in a different country. It’s going to be a bit inconvenient but probably time to give them the finger and look elsewhere.
  
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dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I ripped CDs to FLAC, put them on a Plex server, and use Plexamp on my computer and phone. Now I’ve got my own personal streaming service.

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- 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Not everyone will do that though… plenty of people I know have zero idea about that kind of stuff
  
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  - tangycitrus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Unfortunately true. It’s the uninformed (and who don’t care enough to get informed) that let the violation of rights and privacy be violated.
    
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    CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I have a 50TB library of movies and TV, Plex, the *arrs, a dedicated server, and even I dont bother with music because its a huge pain in the ass to deal with. I have a bunch of songs from before music streaming was popular and a few I’ve gotten from SoulSeek since then, but that’s about it. Ripping CDs, labeling and tagging each track, and sorting them into a properly named folder structure is just too much work especially when you get into thousands and thousands of songs. There are software solutions to this but they don’t work very well because music is much harder to deal with when you can have 50 versions of the same song floating around out there.
    
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- tangycitrus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  This is the way to go!
  
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