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HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or self hosting their own Jellyfin

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s the same thing.

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    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A music collection on your harddive is a joy for you personally for ever

      A music collection on a VPS hosting a Jellyfin with accounts for your family and friends is a joy forever for all your family and friends (as long as you pay the hosting fees)

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      • Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A music collection on your harddive is a joy for you personally for ever

        As long as you take care of backups

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      • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Instead of paying monthly for a VPS you could get a mini PC from eBay for 100 dollars and host it yourself

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  1.: I divide the payment of Family across 3 members.
  2.: I listen to so many songs individually, it would bankrupt me to buy every single song individually or the full album.
  3.: I’ll buy an album (2nd hand discogs (so good)/ebay, digitally on wherever or bandcamp). If I don’t like the music as much or the buying process is annoying, I’ll pirate the song.

  So yeah. It depends.

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, but Spotify is and always has been a really poorly designed app. Google sucks in a lot of ways, but YouTube Music is a great platform.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Depends on how you use it.
      I like it and it works for what I need from it.

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• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, not really. I’ve discovered a ton of music in the past couple years I never would have bought or even had access to, without streaming. But Spotify does suck, I much prefer YouTube Music, which comes with Premium.

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  • HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I should really learn to not make these sort of ultimatum type statements.

    Of course there’s some good things about it. But I’ve never been a spotify user, I’ve discovered a whole lot of stuff through things like last.fm, youtube and just music themed internet forums and IRC etc. So I wont argue that you can’t find stuff through spotify, but I’ll say that there are other ways to discover things, making spotify not necessary but helpful in that regard.

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