[loudtieblahblah]

please god, do not buy out discogs and leave it the hell alone.

i already stopped last.fm after CBS ruined it.

I've used every music service and quit for a multitude of reasons. Libraries that "have everything" but manage to be missing albums or have albums takne down all the time, "shuffle" functions that don't work (Spotify), apps that prioritize and shove music in your face that you have no interest in (Tidal), or just being unlucky enough to be owned by some of the shittiest corporations the world has seen since the robber barons (Apple/Google).

The more they get rid of digital music stores, the more i fall back to vinyl.

Streaming sucks.

[ValentineC]

Have you checked out MusicBrainz [1] as an alternative for Discogs?

They're run by a non-profit [2], which is worth supporting, and a bit hard to "buy out".

[1] https://musicbrainz.org/

[2] https://metabrainz.org/

[loudtieblahblah]

I, mainly, use Discogs more as a trading platform for vinyl. The fact their meta-data db is phenomenal is an added bonus

[SllX]

I second this. Discogs is amazing in the way that only independent websites can be, and not just as a database (which would be locked up by the buyer, stripped of its more interesting and obscure data and turned into a feature for the buyer’s “platform”), but also as a marketplace.

[hedora]

> apps that prioritize and shove music in your face that you have no interest in (Tidal)

Tidal’s ML algorithm has a pretty strong prior probability set to match their owner’s taste.

However, their recommendations are excellent for other genres once their suggestion algorithm has had time to digest your library and listening habits (about a week or two for me).