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by Nullabillity 882 days ago
> In part out of frustration with Spotify, and in part to hedge against streaming disappearing one day, I'm in the process of ripping my exiting CD collection to FLAC, and buying either digital or physical copies of my favourite albums.

This is bizarre to me. So to punish the record industry for ruining Spotify you're... giving them even more money?
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mingus88 882 days ago
In 2024 you can buy directly from the artists in many ways that are more beneficial to them than a streaming subscription.

I make it a point to buy a couple of albums a month from Bandcamp. The artists get a much larger cut than whatever I have been streaming of theirs, and in exchange I can listen as much as I want, completely offline, without any surveillance of my listening habits.

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-much-more-money-artists-e...

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Yodel0914 882 days ago
Yep, I buy from bandcamp where I can. Where I can't (usually bigger artists) I can usually buy from qobuz.
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Yodel0914 882 days ago
Who said I wanted to punish the record industry?

I'm not sure any of my issues with Spotify (pushing podcasts and audiobooks, nonsense UI changes etc) have anything to do with the record industry.

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Nullabillity 882 days ago
The record industry are major shareholders in Spotify. They are effectively one and the same.
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