As Spotify moves to video, the environmental footprint of music streaming hits the high notes

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Same for Youtube for ages. But Yt has separate channels for audio, why can’t they just switch, if the tab is out of focus?

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait until they learn about Youtube, TikTok and Instagram.

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• antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To minimise the environmental footprint of your own music streaming, use Wi-Fi rather than 4G or 5G. If you listen to a song repeatedly, purchase a download to play. Use localised storage rather than cloud-based systems for all of your music and video files. Reduce auto-play, aimless background streaming or using streaming as a sleep aid by changing the default settings on your device including reducing streaming resolution. And turn your camera off for video calls, as carbon emissions are 25 times more than for audio only.

  Lol no I won’t.

  What a stupid, bizarre and illogical article. It clearly shows that the key is in moving to renewables yet it still argues for the users also doing this sort of tiny useless gestures. I suspect it’s AI-written at least in part.

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  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Use localised storage rather than cloud-based systems for all of your music and video files

    This is good advice tho. I also chose to read it as a Spotify endorsement of the high seas ;)

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• axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As if this fucking matters all while the ai hype literally spins up power plants just to handle the energy usage

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  European average carbon footprint for video streaming as producing 55g of CO₂e per hour. This CO₂e or carbon dioxide equivalent is a comparable measure of the potential effect of different greenhouse gases on the climate: 55g of CO₂e is 50 times more than audio streaming and the equivalent of microwaving four bags of popcorn

  What the fuck is this article? This is not helpful in any way. Yeah du-doy the thing that uses electricity “creates” carbon. How bout we remove fossil fuels from the grid then?

  1.1g per hour is ridiculously efficient. An average meal in the Western world is ~3Kg.

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  • P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It’s to put the blame on the consumer. Fuck these cooperate overlords. I’m hungry, when do we eat?

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  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    55g of CO₂e is 50 times more than audio streaming and the equivalent of microwaving four bags of popcorn

    How much is that in football fields?

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    • P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      0.54% of a foosball table. Or 0.00000000000000042% of the length of two average elephants.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These companies will use the lowest possible bitrate with the newest possible codecs to balance quality and bandwidth. They will also default to a medium quality when it comes to picking audio quality.

  I’d say they are doing their best already just to save bandwidth costs.

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• nivenkos@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And carting CDs and vinyl around used a lot more energy still.

  We should focus on increasing renewable energy production, not degrowth.

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  • ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    …we can do both…

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• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I never really had much interest in music streaming services, given the wealth of storage on modern devices, and the ease of ripping audio from almost any source in existence.

  Do we need a constant internet connection to listen to music? Is it that hard to use VLC, and just buy/download what you want, and rip what you can’t?

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  • FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Using VLC is easy. Having good musical taste and finding the time to renew your library so it doesn’t grow stale is hard.

    I know, I used to download all my stuff and now I just get YouTube music started on a piece I like and let it autoplay forever while I work, do a tabletop campaign, play videogames… I find that this way, I find the music it plays to be in the right mood 98% of the time.

    It disgusts me to say it but it just works and saves me a lot of time.

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    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I guess a big factor would be constant access to the internet on your mobile devices. I usually travel through internet “dead zones” (no cell coverage, wifi, or just in a building that doubles as a Faraday cage), so I find having offline music a lifeline for staving off boredom. That could be why it appeals to me more - plus the whole “they can’t take it away” side.

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