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Re:Goodbye Spotify by barbazoo on Monday December 12, 2022 @12:15PM (#33957277)
> It's wild to me that people just accept albums being removed and think "oh well, guess I just can't listen to that any more." Not to mention I have a decent chunk of music I listen to that just isn't available on any streaming services.

I think the average Spotify customer might have a different listening behavior than you. From my personal experience, I have never had an album I listen to regularly be removed. I'm not saying it doesn't happen I'm just saying I bet it doesn't impact many people. And I don't know anyone who has a lot of music they listen to that's not on Spotify, if any. Again, not saying what you're saying isn't true, just that I think you're not the average Spotify customer.

Re:Goodbye Spotify by macNchz on Monday December 12, 2022 @12:34PM (#33957524)
As a datapoint, my “bookmarked songs” playlist that I’ve been adding to for about 10 years is ~600 tracks, roughly 10 of which are greyed out, having been removed from Spotify.
Re:Goodbye Spotify by hbn on Monday December 12, 2022 @12:52PM (#33957757)
Neil Young took all his music off Spotify because he was mad about Joe Rogan. I wouldn't be surprised if services started pulling Kanye's stuff in light of his new bit.

I just don't want my music library to be beholden to musicians or labels or tech companies trying to disassociate with the bad guy of the month. Obviously it's not a perfectly independent solution to upload to Apple's servers, but the system is working as it is.