I never stopped
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yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Meh I moved back to the old trick where I torrent download bulk music and store it on my phone. Not internet no problem.
small44@lemmy.world 1 year ago
N1cknamed@feddit.nl 1 year ago
[deleted]yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
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 !!
N1cknamed@feddit.nl 1 year ago
[deleted]yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Ha good one! Never heard of a billionaire artist. Its Always billion dollar companies.
Kuma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
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.
small44@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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
N1cknamed@feddit.nl 1 year ago
[deleted]Bloodyhog@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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!!!
null@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
That sounds great in theory, but the thing I haven’t been able to replace is seamless discovery.
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Lol sure. I discover all my songs from torrents.
null@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
What?
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Download a torrent such as this
www.1377x.to/…/Various-Artists-Love-At-First-Sigh…
and then I listen and keep the one’s that I like kinda like Spotify discover lol but oldskool
small44@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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
null@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
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 on – 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.