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Millennial here.
I grew up with sneakernet through irc-napster-kazaa-limewire-directconnect-bittorrent-oneswarm. I gave all that up when netflix and spotify.
Those subscriptions have been ended a couple of years back and the eye patch is back on.
Netflix' catalogue has just diminished, as everyone who owns rights to the good stuff want to do their own streaming service.
I wasn't really listening that much ro spotify, but when they started injecting ads into podcasts I bid adieu. (Yes, injected - I'd listen to an English podcast and get very local ads between segments).
Injected ads in RSS podcasts are common too - they'll look at the IP address and serve a location-specific episode.
Tragic to hear. I didn't even think of RSS as vulnerable to advertising, but of course it is.
Got any recommendations for where to download music these days?
Well, spotify. I did a run with spot-dl before ending my subscription.
I self-host with navidrome and stream/sync to my phone with Tempus.
But 97% of my listening nowadays is just streaming HYPR demoscene radio.
spot-dl is Youtube (yt-dlp).
Take a look at soul seek or nicotine. Plus of course a VPN.
Thanks!
Soulseek
Bandcamp or rip CDs at the library. Ytdlp if you want to rip audio from YouTube. Picard to fingerprint and tag the files.
Thank you, Picard looks useful!
I don't mind injected podcast ads so much, especially for smaller podcasts that need some financial support. What I tend to do is use a VPN, that way the podcast is in my local language, but the ads are in another that I don't understand. I get my podcast, podcasters get paid, and I avoid tracking and brainwashing. win-win-win
I wouldn't it mind it if I was on a free tier. I'd think some of my subscription moneys would go to the creators.
Still paying for Spotify. At least Spotify is not shit from consumer prospective. Stremio/Kodi + a debrid service are better then any subscription and cheaper.
Not downvoting because your opinions are your own, but Spotify has been trying to worsen your experience. Lately they've been allowing AI-generated content on their platform, and before that they were hiring "ghost bands" to keep royalty money away from legitimate artists.
It is not about my opinion, it is about my experience as customer. While I agree that Spotify is bad regarding some practices, as a person that listen to music I am not as negatively affected by those policies as with others video streaming platforms. Same with steam: while there are some questionable practices linked with steam as monopoly, from a consumer prospective it is still not “shitty”.
A better phrase probably would have been "your experience." If you don't use playlists that Spotify wants you to listen to, you might not notice these issues. I used to prefer Spotify for exploratory reasons, so this is a massive disappointment to me.