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Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by falcolas on Monday February 19, 2024 @11:53AM (#39431934)
I have a similar opinion, but with one big caveat (which means I'd be happy to drop Spotify in a heartbeat): I still have access to all those old albums I bought with my wages and allowance. I've digitized them, and they have migrated from computer to computer.

And a large number of those albums/songs... aren't on Spotify.

And all the songs I've 'discovered' on Spotify will also be gone some day, because they're not from mainstream artists. If I want to listen to them in another 10 years, I'll have to buy them.

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Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by oe on Monday February 19, 2024 @02:04PM (#39433395)
I digitized the CDs I still had left a couple years ago. Over half of them were not on Spotify. And they weren’t even anything obscure, just electronica where licensing is often a bit complicated.
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Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by iggldiggl on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @10:34AM (#39442504)
> And they weren’t even anything obscure

A noticeable number of Bob Dylan's live albums are all mutilated in online distribution (streaming and download, everything), because somebody somehow managed to drop the gapless between-tracks transitions. (Those missing bits exactly match the pre-gap on the corresponding CD releases, so it almost feels as Columbia just ripped its own CDs for uploading and somehow mismanaged the process).

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