Comment on Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying

• EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t understand how it would be convenient at all to have your whole collection just online, restricted to a single proprietary site/app. I do use musical streaming, but it’s for discovering new tracks. All the actual listening happens locally on my computer and player. I cannot afford to actually buy the music, but if I did, I probably would pay for the albums I listen to the most, not the whole library.

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  • sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I buy around $10-$20 a month. Not much but it adds up my collection fairly quickly

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I listen to music and podcasts all day, like minimum of 4-5 hours a day. No way I could afford to do that if I was paying per item and not for the service.

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    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My podcasts are free RSS feeds. As for music - you not only pay, but are restricted in what you can do with your music, not to mention stuff from your collection can just disappear. So as I said, if I was dead set on paying, I would rather pay for one album at a time and pirate the rest, maybe pay for what I have downloaded later.

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