cat_fishingNetflix is raising their prices again. Spotify just raised their prices…
Just steal everything. The powers that be rob you blind every day in a death by a thousand cuts kinda way.
They don’t give a fuck about you, don’t pay them any courtesies in return.
Darkassassin07Do what you want, 'cause a Pirate is Free!
Gnarkill - Swab the Deck! (Full Music Video)
amniotic druidSelf-hosting and/or use Kanopy if your local library offers it
How have I never heard about Kanopy? This looks so cool!
fmhy.net is a constantly updated directory of streaming piracy sites. Make sure you have an ad blocker and enjoy any show from any service instantly with no sign up.
Beat me to it, love fmhy
CoskiiSpotify specific:
Use the free service to listen to new stuff in order to find groups you like. For the sub cost you can buy an album per month and have it forever. I work in areas that don’t have great data connections, so having a local copy keeps the jams going without interruption or ads.
bizarrolandSoma.fm and radio.garden are two streaming music service replacers. I have not used Soma, but Radio Garden is interesting because it gives you a map of every single participating radio station on the planet and lets you just scroll around the entire globe and pick a radio station.
Thank you
I also recommend Qobuz. They’re European and have high quality streaming + the option to buy and album and download it.
If you don’t mind the less legal way, you can easily use a program like streamrip and download whatever you want from the service.
And if you don’t have the money to spend, they have a trial for a month. Just rip whatever you need and have a nice offline collection. And if you need more, you can just make a start trial with a disposable e-mail.
There’s also lucida.to if you don’t want to be bothered with any of that.
Yarrrrr.
SeeMarkFlyIt’s harder to deliver movies over the internet when there is a WAR going on.
djdarrenWith regards to Spotify, assuming you are able to build a reasonable library by other means, I’ve been massively impressed by Navidrome.
Run it through a free Tailscale tailnet, and you can access it wherever you like (as long as the accessing device is in your tailnet). Run it through a reverse proxy on a VPS and you don’t even need your accessing device to be in the tailnet.
So I now have Symfonium on my phone, and Feishin on my desktops, all accessing the same library.
The only part of that that has to cost any money (aside from buying music, that is), is the £5 I paid for Symfonium.
Jellyfin on an old computer that you happen to have lying around is free.
You can get videos to watch by going to your library and checking them out and using MakeMKV to rip them to digital format and saving them to the Jellyfin server.
Alternatively, many thrift stores and pawn shops sell DVDs usually for a buck or two.
Check out Bloomee
Streaming is not frugal by definition since you don’t own anything.
eezeebeeBuy from Bandcamp, own and stream forever for a cheap price
It’s also important to emphasize that artists make more from a Bandcamp purchase than if you had just streamed a few times on Shitify.
You would need to listen to a song 400+ times on Spotify to earn the artist $1. Or you could throw them a buck on Bandcamp Friday and get to download it forever. Plus the artist gets paid immediately from the Bandcamp purchase instead of quarterly streaming royalties.
Berengaria_of_NavarreThen my favourite artist has earned more from me streaming her music on tidal than if I’d bought her entire discography.
Eivør, there’s one person on tidal who listened to her more than me. I can only assume it’s a Faroese coma patient who’s relatives have put her on repeat in the hospital room in the hopes they’ll be brought back stranger things style.
Soulseek is love, Soulseek is life.
Paranoid Factoid👉 Your local public library. You can borrow movies and books. Return them so someone else can use them too. Not run afoul of the law. Libraries are great!
CatoblepasYour library probably even has digital access to thousands of movies, books, and songs, so you don’t even have to leave the house!
That’s definitely true for books. I have an ereader and I often use my library account to add books on loan to the reader over the Internet. I don’t think there’s video available like that, but they do have physical media like CDs, DVDs, and BluRays.
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rozodrufor streaming movies/shows just find something on fmhy or if you want to set up your own server download the stuff off like 1337x and put it on jellyfin.
For music you can do the same with soulseek/nicotine+ and navidrome on a server. OR sign up with Qobuz. I use Qobuz and I like it. artists get paid more on there than spotify and since I don’t care about podcasts it’s not an issue.
🏴☠️ good ol’ piracy will never let you down. 🏴☠️
eliQbittorrent and a VPN, I’ve been using Proton VPN and it’s been good.
Save up for a 2 bay NAS and a couple hard drives once you cancel your subs, if you want to keep any content that is.
Plex is still a solid choice, but there’s probably other self host media options now.
How is this a surprise to anyone? They came to replace cable.
No, you still don’t get it.
THEY CAME TO REPLACE CABLE.
At this point I’d think a good number of folks either don’t remember or simply never experienced cable/satellite TV.
Hard to compare against something you’ve never experienced.
a basic cable package in my city costs $100. A high end one costs $200.
Netflix basic is 8 bucks, netflix premium is 25.
For now. And that’s Netflix only. Many many users have multiple subs.
Plus the internet connection, which I get it, it’s currently a necessity, but at the time of cable TV, it didn’t represent an expense.
That’s exactly my point. Cable didn’t start off costing $100-$200. In the beginning it was a few bucks as an ad-free alternative to antenna TV. Then they raised prices, just a little at a time, over many years, as well as introduced ads. Sound familiar?
I promise you, some day streaming will cost $100-$200, too. And people will pay it, just like your grandparents do today.
I say again: streaming is here to REPLACE cable. You’re living in the golden age of low-cost entertainment and you don’t even know it.
Cancel and setup a nas.
Truenas, openmediavault, unraid, yunohost. There are many option out there.
Many would gladly help you if needed. :)
I see a ton of people talking about setting up a nas and running Plex or Jellyfin, and i do prefer to store my own media but I’ve gotten so many more people to switch over since suggesting stremio.
People can take their current firestick or android tv, delete Netflix and Hulu and get stremio set up in 10 minutes. Pay $3/m for torbox and you get a pretty seamless streaming service.
BurgerBaronFor streaming, Debrid and Stremio!
Your local public library!
Buying physical media.