Just get me the kid bop version

There's a wide gap between "travelling to another country" and "listening to music."

I'm not trying to go on holiday to Spotify

They want to scan your face to get as many images of people of stated ages to feed into their facial recognition system. Do not for one moment think it is for anything else.

Edit: it is like how Facebook had a 10 years ago you looked like this! Post a new comparison photo today!' Specifically because they want to know how people age for their AI shit.

We live in a rural part of Canada that has been left behind by modern times. Mostly by the choice of the residents. I grew up during satanic panic. It was crazy here. My wife and I let our kids listen to anything they want. They always have. They're 10 and 12.

Their friends often comment about swear words and "sex, drugs and rock and roll" themes of the music they listen too. As an old man I get to regale them with stories of how crazy the Christians were over heavy metal and punk rock when I was a kid, including their grandma.

Now I yell "you're gonna go to hell!" As a joke to them every time their friends bring it up and I am around.

Bandcamp is owned by union busters. Only use on Bandcamp Friday for best effect.

Well sure, the real reason is always data harvesting.

I initially perceived piracy similarly to how or perceive reading about archaeology and such, so the fact that someone is sincere in hating p2p copying and calling it immoral just felt preposterous.

Yet now it seems plenty of normies will agree. Then go listen to something they didn't pay for on YouTube or Facebook or whatever, because "everybody uses that". What "everybody uses" is fine, see. What they condemn me the pirate for is using ed2k, torrents and such other technologies. Even when I'm literally downloading public domain stuff or abandonware.

Not the one who mentioned it but I was curious about this as well and found this;

1. Spotify boycott: Artists leave ‘garbage hole’ platform after CEO invests in AI weapons.

2. Spotify CEO investments $700m in AI drone weapons company, as artists call for boycott.

Tidal is pretty harsh on vpns and my whole network is behind something most of the time

Personally I could never get into the whole Spotify and Pandora thing. I want to listen to what I want to listen to and when I want to listen to it, without ridiculous restrictions and rules. YouTube has honestly been the far better choice for music for me.

I'm having a pretty good time with Qobuz. Their curated collections are actually really good and I've found a lot of new stuff in there; it's not the "here's what the record label is shoveling this week" like on Spotify. Also, the high bitrate stuff... I hate to admit it, but it really does sound better.

I heartily recommend the last two.

Is there rippers for Spotify?

That I don't know. I mean you could always just use something to record the sound played by your PC, but at that point A) You're not getting as good of quality as you would from an actual download of the source material and you'd have to manually assign metadata, make sure no notifications or other sounds played, make sure your recording settings were optimum, etc. It's easier, right now at least, to just buy what you want on CD or from a store that sells digital downloads legitimately.

Having a collection of music in files that I own has been my go-to for years. Currently VLC says I have 701 hours of music in files on my phone. That's only 29.2 days worth.

I used to do that and I do still have a lot of music from that time on my computer, but somewhere along the line I stopped downloading music and just started listening to it on YouTube whenever I thought of something in particular.

Seriously, fuck Spotify and anyone else using that error-prone, intrusive, insecure bullshit.

Yeah, they want to be able to 'People that look like This listen to This' so that advertisers have more options when they are locking down commercials.

Man, I had around 10 gigs of vintage mp3s that is created since the days of Limewire/Napster. Uploaded it all to Google Music and lost track of the external I'd had the collection stored on. Whatever, it's all in the cloud now.

Then it wasn't.

I really, Really, need to back up all of my Gdocs, just in case that service ceases to be.

(I wonder if ancient crunchy low bitrate mp3s will be an aesthetic, the way that dusty vinyl or worn out tapes are?)

As much as I'd like to do that, I have listened to over 7000 artists on Spotify.
I simply don't have the time (or money) to look those up individually.
So I can either choose to have worse experience, or stick with Spotify for now.