wowww ur so special, look at u, so courageous (even though i havent been streaming music for years and its easy and saves you a lot of fucking money)
who would win
- $12 a month for spotify, artist gets $0.010 per stream, all of it goes away as soon as you cancel your subscription
- $4 for an album on bandcamp, artist gets all of the money, you keep the music forever and can also share it with friends

@nano the main reason I've been using Spotify is to discover new stuff and be able to easily check things out and add them to my rotation if I like them. But with them now not paying a lot of artists at all, paying the rest very little and giving millions to fucking Joe Rogan while also raising prices, there's no way I'll keep giving them money.

I just want a way to solve the discoverability problem while giving most of the money to the actual artists instead of some shitty corporate platforms 😭

@nano i used music streaming during my $1 trial for spotify

and then dropped off of it immediately and haven't looked back lmfao

it's not that hard to buy music off bandcamp tbqh
@EeveeEuphoria its also very cheap and directly supports the music artist since streaming services pay the artist a fraction of a cent per stream
@nano yep

even a dollar per album is still giving them way more money than they'll ever get from you if you kept streaming it
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step 1: have ad blocker and media downloading extensions on pc browser
step 2: install revanced or vimusic on phone
step 3: rejoice with free youtube music
@sirlan thats definitely.. one way of doing it i guess
that works, but youtube uses very lossy compression for its audio.
most people wouldn't consider this a great listening experience

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@nano Same energy as this
That's nice sweetie, I've used 1980s technology my entire fucking life.
@[email protected] yeah, people have no idea how much music you can put inside an mp3 player. they are cheap as dirt and pirating music is free ​
I usually buy CDs locally, then copy the contents to a computer with lossless compression (flac).
I've heard that some people burn the copies they made of CDs to new CD-Rs as this somehow makes it easier for some CD players to read. I doubt it has an effect on the audio quality though, maybe it can prevent skips on some specific older players
@[email protected] I honestly should start paying for Bandcamp. Artists like Creo, Lemon Demon, C418, JQHN, and etc, etc. are so talented, and indie piracy (even when it's as "small" as violating the Commons) is a massive dick move.