I grew up with sneakernet through irc-napster-kazaa-limewire-directconnect-bittorrent-oneswarm. I gave all that up when netflix and spotify.
Those subscriptions have been ended a couple of years back and the eye patch is back on.
Netflix’ catalogue has just diminished, as everyone who owns rights to the good stuff want to do their own streaming service.
I wasn’t really listening that much ro spotify, but when they started injecting ads into podcasts I bid adieu. (Yes, injected - I’d listen to an English podcast and get very local ads between segments).
I don’t mind injected podcast ads so much, especially for smaller podcasts that need some financial support. What I tend to do is use a VPN, that way the podcast is in my local language, but the ads are in another that I don’t understand. I get my podcast, podcasters get paid, and I avoid tracking and brainwashing. win-win-win
Millennial here.
I grew up with sneakernet through irc-napster-kazaa-limewire-directconnect-bittorrent-oneswarm. I gave all that up when netflix and spotify.
Those subscriptions have been ended a couple of years back and the eye patch is back on.
Netflix’ catalogue has just diminished, as everyone who owns rights to the good stuff want to do their own streaming service.
I wasn’t really listening that much ro spotify, but when they started injecting ads into podcasts I bid adieu. (Yes, injected - I’d listen to an English podcast and get very local ads between segments).
Injected ads in RSS podcasts are common too - they’ll look at the IP address and serve a location-specific episode.
Tragic to hear. I didn’t even think of RSS as vulnerable to advertising, but of course it is.
Got any recommendations for where to download music these days?
Well, spotify. I did a run with spot-dl before ending my subscription.
I self-host with navidrome and stream/sync to my phone with Tempus.
But 97% of my listening nowadays is just streaming HYPR demoscene radio.
Take a look at soul seek or nicotine. Plus of course a VPN.
Thanks!
Bandcamp or rip CDs at the library. Ytdlp if you want to rip audio from YouTube. Picard to fingerprint and tag the files.
Thank you, Picard looks useful!
Soulseek
I don’t mind injected podcast ads so much, especially for smaller podcasts that need some financial support. What I tend to do is use a VPN, that way the podcast is in my local language, but the ads are in another that I don’t understand. I get my podcast, podcasters get paid, and I avoid tracking and brainwashing. win-win-win
I wouldn’t it mind it if I was on a free tier. I’d think some of my subscription moneys would go to the creators.