But lets see the Positive side: Now the Nazis wont have to burn thousands of books, saving tons of co2 in their Plan to take over the world with propaganda. So, yay for the envoirment I guess

  • ellisk@lemmy.caEnglish
    17·
    1 month ago

    Music is definitely not a solved problem. About 30% of my favorite older tunes aren’t available on streaming at all, as I discovered when I tried to find a way to casually share with some friends.

    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Sure, no platform will have everything. But for me personally, on YouTube Music, I’ve always been able to find what I was looking for. But I’m admittedly not what you’d call a music aficionado.

      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        Interestingly, I am now going through some album series that are not on Youtube, but are on Spotify. It is frustrating because I can’t use Spotify on my phone (browser is incompatible), but I can Youtube, so music discovery is desktop-only. Good thing all of them are on Soulseek, though.

    • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Music is easily solved.

      • Qobuz store
      • Bandcamp
      • 7Digital
      • Tidal media downloader
      • Deemix

      Screw streaming. Local is always better. Purchase and/or download FLAC. I’ve got nearly 1 TB of music on my NAS and my collection is regularly growing. From Qobuz and Bandcamp, anything you purchase is owned, and DRM free.

      Edit - though for me as a Linux user, Qobuz has actually turned this from something perfect into a service issue. Used to be able to just download a tar of your album from them after purchase. Now you have to use their (Windows only) application downloader, or individually download each track as a single download. It’s fucking irritating. I don’t buy from them now because of it. That said, they can’t edit or alter anything I’ve previously bought and stored locally.

    • tamal3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      They also treat artists like shit. I switched over to Tidal simply to get access to Joanna Newsom’s music, as she won’t tolerate Spotify’s terms. Tidal isn’t much better, but it is slightly.

      I was looking forward to blockchain cutting out the middle man in paying artists. Too bad it has so far not happened that way.