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Meanwhile the new Seagate 26tb HDD is going for $270

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate-expansion-26tb-external-usb-3-0-desktop-hard-drive-with-rescue-data-recovery-services-black/6614708.p?skuId=6614708&ref=198&affgroup=%22Content%22%2C%22May+Contract+Change%22%2C%22Partners+to+Keep%22%2C%22Roku+AO+-+ROP%22%2C%22Temp+0%25%22

I've been downloading my media for over 10 years now and I only have like 2 1/2 Terabytes filled, a 26tb drive could hold most people's lifetime media collections.

Owning your own storage and files is the only way to ensure you keep access to the media you want.

gotta give even more money to joe fuckhead - bet absolutely none of this will improve artist payouts..

fuck Spotify, I only listen to downloaded flac and mp3 music and YouTube

I've had a grudge against Spotify waaaayyyy back when it first launched as an app on the computer.

For some reason, the Spotify app on my Mac wasted a ton of resources and battery. And it made me so mad I've never used them since.

Then years later they made dumbass Joe Rogan the face of the company so fuck all that.

Cool I can't pay any less than the zero I currently am subscribed at to not use their service

spotify lost me as a customer as soon as I learned that they gifted 150k to Trump for his inaugaration party

And yet, despite the subscription price or its raise, Spotify still insists on forcing promoted content on your homepage.

Well I am happy to have cancelled this shit a few months ago

I got a subscription two months ago because I had an event where it was simply easier to just use Spotify. I'm going back to plexamp I guess.

Spotify has a become a shit show lately. I don't like that the CEO is supporting a genocidal state, the platform is full of fake AI artists and playlists. Artists aren't getting paid enough. the prices hikes and the app just feels so bloated with unnecessary bullshit. Because of this, I switched to self hosting my own music server (Navidrome, and Lidarr) and I use the symphonium app on Android. Really happy with that solution

Just leaving this here from the excellent !PurchaseWithPurpose@lemmy.world

I cancelled it when they started to crack down on family plans with separate households. It just wasn't worth the money to me anymore. I wonder how much more price hikes the remaining customers are going to tolerate. At some point it becomes cheaper to just outright buy music..

Military defence is expensive

I will cancel it

I use Bandcamp when I want to buy and YouTube with ad blocker for streaming.

Friendly reminder that your “legally acquired” library of FLAC files never raises its subscription prices!

anything to sustain the hateful joe roegan podcasts on the platform.

spotify pays me half a cent per stream, the profit margins for them must be fucking insane. and the music sounds like shit. I'd much rather people pirate it than support these leeches

if you want to support artists you like, buy the music, ideally on bandcamp. if you do have to steam it, Deezer at the very least won't vandalize the audio

Music costs??

Third one in a little over two years. They say it's to keep up with inflation as if they're a retail store operating on razor thin margins and people accept that. Meanwhile, they're donating to fascist political parties and shafting artists by leveraging loopholes to pay out fewer royalties.

Tidal seems to be a pretty good alternative.

Also, you can use some FOSS alternatives like SimpMusic, InnerTune (or some fork), ViMusic (or a fork).

For PC you can use the FOSS YouTube Music alternative.

There is a ReVanced version of Spotify, for people who didn't already know. Block ads and get premium features for free: https://revanced.app/

(There's also YT Music ReVanced)

Let's say it together: Enshittification

It's been long underway for Spotify; raising prices is just the lastest step.

Just saying; cancelling Spotify and changing to Qobuz takes five minutes. Sound quality is amazingly better, the curated recommendations are done by human beings that love music, and 'just works' with everything that Spotify does. (For us, anyway.) It's French, rather than Norwegian-American like Tidal is, if you're trying to stop spending money on everything US at the moment, too.

You guys are paying for Spotify?

You mean replacing a bunch of people with AI didn’t work?

Fediverse has quite alot of indie musicians. Check out LABR http://labr.online/ or the indie beat https://theindiebeat.fm/ and try some new music and support creatives directly.

When I got tired of Spotify's shitty practices, I looked into other streaming services that could compare, and honestly I didn't like any other offerings. So I said fuck it, I'll just download everything and play it locally.

What made the jump easy was a service called Spotidown, I even paid for the ad free version it was so convenient. You literally copy the spotify link for songs and playlists and it let's you download it. There's a couple different services like this, that will make the switch easier.