The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by lotsofpulp on Monday February 19, 2024 @08:49AM (#39429688)

> The current situation is that you don't own anything and you can't just deal with raw files (which locks you into a quite shitty UI).

It has never been easier to own an easily copiable and backup-able form of the music you want and use it with myriad ways to play it and listen to it.

People just don’t want to pay a dollar or two for their favorite songs.

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Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by lowercased on Monday February 19, 2024 @01:17PM (#39432906)

Or... don't want to repay. I've followed some bands from vinyl to tapes to cds to now. I've bought some of the same songs 4, 5, 6 or more times. Listening for 'free' via streaming is good enough for most stuff any more, even if it means I'll lose access to some stuff. If I'm really desperate, maybe I'll look for a torrent, but I haven't done that in years.

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Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by ambichook on Monday February 19, 2024 @06:37PM (#39436175)

if you have the CD why are you repaying? you literally already have the file on a physical medium that can be backed up and copied to whatever device you want

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