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Re:Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify by Nullabillity on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:20PM (#39113206)
> In part out of frustration with Spotify, and in part to hedge against streaming disappearing one day, I'm in the process of ripping my exiting CD collection to FLAC, and buying either digital or physical copies of my favourite albums.

This is bizarre to me. So to punish the record industry for ruining Spotify you're... giving them even more money?

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Re:Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify by mingus88 on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:29PM (#39113267)
In 2024 you can buy directly from the artists in many ways that are more beneficial to them than a streaming subscription.

I make it a point to buy a couple of albums a month from Bandcamp. The artists get a much larger cut than whatever I have been streaming of theirs, and in exchange I can listen as much as I want, completely offline, without any surveillance of my listening habits.

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-much-more-money-artists-e...

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Re:Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify by Yodel0914 on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:41PM (#39113346)
Yep, I buy from bandcamp where I can. Where I can't (usually bigger artists) I can usually buy from qobuz.
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Re:Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify by Yodel0914 on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:40PM (#39113340)
Who said I wanted to punish the record industry?

I'm not sure any of my issues with Spotify (pushing podcasts and audiobooks, nonsense UI changes etc) have anything to do with the record industry.

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Re:Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify by Nullabillity on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:05AM (#39113845)
The record industry are major shareholders in Spotify. They are effectively one and the same.
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