Spotify free version of course! Also, YouTube, though that's a bit more of a "choose your own adventure" type of experience, maybe not as easy/streamlined as you'd like
that and sharing with friends. also, spotify has made playing a shared live playlist usable (although why they don't add a toggle so tapping a song will just add it to the playlist when in that mode bloggles my mind).
What worked for me: Search a web-radio with a (human) DJ and a published playlist. If find there a couple of artists / songs of a certain style that match my more non-mainstream interests, I'll listen to that. Usually, there pop up some artists I have never heard before.
A variant on that is, look for such a radio in a different country.
Maybe I have bad hearing - but even with good, wired headphones I have to try really hard with lots of repeats to identify the lowest quality sample in a blind test.
here i was thinking we'd be treated to a post about quitting as an employee
i mean, good for the author and i agree with a lot of the enshittification of music streaming apps, but yeah not sure this particular post is hn material
Biggest reason to get rid of it is because it just encourages a 'mile wide and an inch deep' music consumption. What I've been doing for several years now is just setting on maybe two dozen albums or so every year and really listen and re-listen actively. People have also noticed that streaming has discouraged if not destroyed entire forms of music, like the concept album. As a teenager I really loved just listening through Dream Theater's Metropolis over and over and I hadn't done that in ages after starting to stream music.
Nabokov used to say the only good reader is a re-reader, because only by engaging deeply do you actually ever get to any level of detail, and the same is true for music as well really.
Same here. I adopted this behavior after reflecting on how I experienced music in high school with my sister. We'd have the CD or two in the car for trips to school and then maybe a dozen at home that we'd cycle through. I'm still not 100% sure it's the best way to enjoy music, but I feel myself less distracted by looking for something new all the time, so that's gotta count for something, right?
Plus, with my own library, I get to use mopidy + snapcast to synchronize streaming through the house and it's a special kind of magic.
I also don't use Spotify for reasons of 1) wanting to own my music, and 2) lack of curation features, i.e. custom fields.
It's truly a joy to have a music library that I know is my own, with the freedom to construct it exactly how I want. Custom fields are a must-have for me, and I don't get why Spotify doesn't have that as a feature (I use MediaMonkey on Windows, but looking for alternatives that are a bit more modern-feeling).
> And in 2024, Spotify will stop paying out songs which get less than 1000 streams in a year. Which means for me, as an artist in the early stages of my career, I am going to get paid nothing. I could get over 1000 streams on all my songs in total, but still get paid nothing. I could get 999 streams on a song one year and 999 streams on it the next year… and still get paid nothing.
I somewhat understand the idea the author is trying to write down, but thats 3€ a year per song an artist is potentially missing out. I dont think any artist is going to cry after those few bucks.
Amish hand crafted comforters in my area start at $1600. The comforters are of much higher quality, better materials, stitching, etc than a Walmart purchased comforter. The comforters will last for at least two generations. They don't sell as many comforters as Walmart does though. They won't be making a living on their comforters anytime soon.
So, what is the Amish's answer to this? It's the same as all other businesses: diversification.
In the case of the Amish, that diversification comes in the form of other products, such as jams and jellies, candles, knickknacks, glass blown objects, etc.
Perhaps music is the comforter of products. Perhaps the answer to music's woes is to diversify.
I keep hearing artists are not happy with their earnings from spotify. But Netflix does not have to seem that problem. Even though the subscription fees are about the same (for me at least). And making movies is also expensive.
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> Another reason [...] I [...] will listen to the same 3 songs over and over
Ok, personally I like variety and discovery new
> I wanted to own my music again
You can do that and subscribe to streaming services
> I downloaded a 13-minute long Taylor Swift megamix, and CAN YOU DO THAT ON SPOTIFY? I didn’t think so
Actually that specific mix is on Spotify...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4X56PaJmkNIfEHieJBMK2h?si=...
A variant on that is, look for such a radio in a different country.
Maybe I have bad hearing - but even with good, wired headphones I have to try really hard with lots of repeats to identify the lowest quality sample in a blind test.
Example: https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...
i mean, good for the author and i agree with a lot of the enshittification of music streaming apps, but yeah not sure this particular post is hn material
Nabokov used to say the only good reader is a re-reader, because only by engaging deeply do you actually ever get to any level of detail, and the same is true for music as well really.
Plus, with my own library, I get to use mopidy + snapcast to synchronize streaming through the house and it's a special kind of magic.
It's truly a joy to have a music library that I know is my own, with the freedom to construct it exactly how I want. Custom fields are a must-have for me, and I don't get why Spotify doesn't have that as a feature (I use MediaMonkey on Windows, but looking for alternatives that are a bit more modern-feeling).
I somewhat understand the idea the author is trying to write down, but thats 3€ a year per song an artist is potentially missing out. I dont think any artist is going to cry after those few bucks.
So, what is the Amish's answer to this? It's the same as all other businesses: diversification.
In the case of the Amish, that diversification comes in the form of other products, such as jams and jellies, candles, knickknacks, glass blown objects, etc.
Perhaps music is the comforter of products. Perhaps the answer to music's woes is to diversify.
So what is the difference?
https://www.albumstheapp.com/