Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

Re:Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent... by djsumdog on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @10:51AM (#20344737)

This is what happens when you rent your music.

I'm glad I never had a Spotify account. I always either buy CDs from shows or get them off Bandcamp. I prefer Bandcamp because they take a smaller cut (15%, as low as 10% if you have a label which high volume) and really hate it when an artist I like only has the option of Apple/Google/Amazon (all which take ~30% or more).

I just went from a 200GB microsd card to a 512gb, and can carry all my music in my phone, ready for offline playback, where ever I go.

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Re:Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent... by proxygeek on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @11:06AM (#20344875)

A streaming service is _not_ just a collection of your favourite songs. Content discovery and auto-playlist are some of the not so easily irreplaceable featured offered by the likes of Spotify.

And anyway, the diss about ownership Vs rental is far too broad a swipe for the topic at hand.

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Re:Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent... by pedrogpimenta on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @11:01AM (#20344826)

I agree with you. I did Spotify for some months and one of the reasons I quit is because I noticed I had stopped listening to music that was not on Spotify. Which is unnacceptable, of course.

Since then I had the music on an SD on my phone. But I'm afraid of losing it and losing all my music, also don't want to have to manually backup the music.

Now I have a Raspberry Pi as a Music Server and it works flawlessly :)

(One SD Cards with the system and music and another one as an automatic system backup so I don't lose any music and can just swap the cards if one fails)

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Re:Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent... by sylk on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @11:03AM (#20344838)

I love all kinds of music and it'd be unrealistic for me to have it all purchased. I listen to easily 20 artists in a day, and those rotate very quickly.

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