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I finally made the jump to tidal this month, my subscription to Spotify is running out. I hate giving my money to Spotify. Yeah, tidal ain't perfect, yet. But I hope with more people joining, it's going to be better soon
And no one in their right mind thinks it is a death wish to actual people, but to everything horrible it embodies.
The Big problem I have now is. I have a Vinyl collection, and I enjoy listening to music (many different things) whenever I feel like it. The Spotify app itself is just so nice. Integrates well with my car, and I have a few huge playlists. Much of this music I bought already physically. But if I were to switch to a different app I feel like I need to change alot more, and in the example of Bandcamp i would have to pay a large sum to get my playlist back up.
Also. I have gotten so used to it and so tired of trying to do the right thing. I just want to listen to some music ffs.
I switched to deezer and it wasn't too painful.
What are your thoughts about old music, should it be pirateable? I mean I don't think those 1990 bands will get a cent from Spotify, or do they?
It would be lovely sharing songs with fellow online people IMO.
I did this 3 years ago.
I buy individual songs on iTunes, I can back them up without DRM to my NAS.
I dislike the entire concept of renting my music.
Since I started using an iPhone back in 2016, I have bought 781 songs, songs that I don't have to pay to access.
I can respect this practice, but in fairness, that's like $1000+ of music purchases. Most people can't just drop their $10/mo or whatever it is subscription and suddenly buy all the songs they want to listen to.
I used a free online service to rip my Spotify playlists to MP3s. Now what? (for Android)
You have a bunch of mp3s? Just add them to an app that plays mp3s like Winamp
Musicolet
If you just want to play music locally without hassles, there are a slew of music apps that can do it for you, my personal favorite is Musicolet.
If you wanna get fancy you could always spin up your own music server with navidrome, and combine that with the android app Symfonium (what i currently do). If you don't like the idea of always streaming your music, for example if you have bad internet service outside your home, you can temporarily or permanently cache music to your phone.
Navidrome + any of a number of subsonic players
What if I block all its ads?