why people say "plz upload on spotify" ?

Der tüddelige Fußgänger 2022年1月31日 5時16分

Who needs spotify?
Either you use the free version where you can't download or do anything really or you pay to get basic feafures like downloads. With drm protection.

If i want a song, i just use a program called video downloader. Found it on flathub. (Don't know about windows version)
It just does 1 thing and it does that well. It downloads videos as mp3 files, no stupid drm copy protection. i then use them in any media player.
Isn't like every song on the planet is on youtube anways.

Simple easy. No proprietary spyware required

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Fluxxation 2022年1月31日 6時38分

𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕋𝔼ℝ の投稿を引用：
Spotify is superior to YouTube music in every way. Ignoring the fact that it doesn't have a single OST from a video game.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3kfUrufomJ7gHkBWWUewnX?si=i_fxuvLjS4eqL35lAOEdWw

https://open.spotify.com/album/00NU9JjK7J3YSYhDzfuzrb?si=JS7KRZW0RaeeKlPePnksqA

https://open.spotify.com/album/0KQyC28P9808r0oKKNgHvp?si=qNXbM8dMT8mg9NKNDSLjxg

最近の変更はFluxxationが行いました; 2022年1月31日 6時39分

#32

76561199099449901 2022年1月31日 7時32分

Less data? (No video) Though nowdays most people pack so much data it doesn't matter I suppose

Also, as others have said, Spotify recommends stuff, and it is fairly good at it, (yes that means it is "spying" on me, but so does YT, but it has way less , erh, accuracy in what it suggests)

#33

Naedmi 2022年1月31日 7時35分

Because they listen to their music on Spotify.

Rocket Science question solved.

#34

my new friend 2022年1月31日 8時48分

SnakeFist の投稿を引用：
Spotify is today what Napster was of yesteryear.

The OG Napster was just piracy.
Roxio bought Napster and tried to make everything right with paying royalties like a good company should but it didn't go too far until Best Buy bought it and rebranded it as Rhapsody.
But then, Napster was sold to virtual reality concerts company MelodyVR for $70 million. So, who TF cares about it now?

The Nintendo guy の投稿を引用：
Who needs spotify?
Either you use the free version where you can't download or do anything really or you pay to get basic feafures like downloads. With drm protection.

If i want a song, i just use a program called video downloader. Found it on flathub. (Don't know about windows version)
It just does 1 thing and it does that well. It downloads videos as mp3 files, no stupid drm copy protection. i then use them in any media player.
Isn't like every song on the planet is on youtube anways.

Simple easy. No proprietary spyware required

So, you would rather pirate your stuff instead of paying for it?

最近の変更はmy new friendが行いました; 2022年1月31日 9時07分

#35

Der tüddelige Fußgänger 2022年1月31日 10時19分

my new friend の投稿を引用：
SnakeFist の投稿を引用：
Spotify is today what Napster was of yesteryear.
The OG Napster was just piracy.
Roxio bought Napster and tried to make everything right with paying royalties like a good company should but it didn't go too far until Best Buy bought it and rebranded it as Rhapsody.
But then, Napster was sold to virtual reality concerts company MelodyVR for $70 million. So, who TF cares about it now?
The Nintendo guy の投稿を引用：
Who needs spotify?
Either you use the free version where you can't download or do anything really or you pay to get basic feafures like downloads. With drm protection.

If i want a song, i just use a program called video downloader. Found it on flathub. (Don't know about windows version)
It just does 1 thing and it does that well. It downloads videos as mp3 files, no stupid drm copy protection. i then use them in any media player.
Isn't like every song on the planet is on youtube anways.

Simple easy. No proprietary spyware required
So, you would rather pirate your stuff instead of paying for it?

Pirate?
The stuff is already on youtube. No paywall or so
All i do is just download it to avoid google tracking and being able to listen to songs whenever i feel like it. No matter if i have a working internet connection or not

Other youtube alternatives like odysee allow you to download any videos even without a stupid premium membershit

And all in all.
Just ♥♥♥♥ big tech.

#36

my new friend 2022年1月31日 11時07分

The Nintendo guy の投稿を引用：
my new friend の投稿を引用：
The OG Napster was just piracy.
Roxio bought Napster and tried to make everything right with paying royalties like a good company should but it didn't go too far until Best Buy bought it and rebranded it as Rhapsody.
But then, Napster was sold to virtual reality concerts company MelodyVR for $70 million. So, who TF cares about it now?

So, you would rather pirate your stuff instead of paying for it?
Pirate?
The stuff is already on youtube. No paywall or so
All i do is just download it to avoid google tracking and being able to listen to songs whenever i feel like it. No matter if i have a working internet connection or not

Other youtube alternatives like odysee allow you to download any videos even without a stupid premium membershit

And all in all.
Just ♥♥♥♥ big tech.

Downloading without paying for it. That is piracy.

#37

Adversary 2022年1月31日 11時23分

calculatortamer の投稿を引用：
is there something special about spotify ? cant they just use yt-dlp or a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ youtube mp3 website ?

It's one part brand loyalty, one part tech illiteracy.

Mythical Ostrich の投稿を引用：
I don't see the point in Spotify. I prefer to have the music files.

I mean considering how they're treating Joe Rogan, it's not like they'll exist much longer to begin with. He wins either way though, so there's that.

Xedhadeaus の投稿を引用：
I hate spotify for nothing more than when people like it, they swear uploading some 40 second clip in a discord thread for appreciating music is useful...

Keep that garbage out of there, we want to hear the entire song.

Yeah it's the same ♥♥♥♥ with Pandora and a handful of others - they insist upon being cancerous by inserting ads into everything and ergo pissing off everyone who doesn't like the carcinogenic nature of the ad-based internet. It's like how people got onto Youtube originally to get away from television, but are now getting onto other sites because of how Youtube is wanting to be just like television.

#38

Schindler's Lifts 2022年1月31日 11時41分

ᚨᛞᚡᛖᚱᛋᚨᚱᛃ の投稿を引用：
I mean considering how they're treating Joe Rogan, it's not like they'll exist much longer to begin with. He wins either way though, so there's that.

I still don't know what's up with that. It's just yet another scandal that I just haven't been able to keep up with or involve myself with.

I kind of like Spotify. Having pretty much the entire music industry to legally listen to ad-free for $10 a month isn't a terrible deal in my opinion.

𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕋𝔼ℝ の投稿を引用：
Spotify is superior to YouTube music in every way. Ignoring the fact that it doesn't have a single OST from a video game.

There's plenty of video game soundtracks on Spotify. Minecraft, Undertale, Deltarune 1 & 2, Hotline Miami 1 & 2, Persona 5, Yakuza, Payday 2, just off the top of my head.

#39

what? 2022年1月31日 12時10分

People seem to slave themselves to all sorts of music clients like Apple Music, YouTube, and Spotify. What happened to local downloads?

Same thing with gaming. Games don't come in self-contained folders anymore. They are connected to bloated clients that need accounts and internet connections.

People want corporations to hold their hand through everything. Your music? Let big brother Google stream it for you. Your games? Let big brother Valve control when you can and can't play.

It's sad to see.

#40

Candyy 2022年1月31日 12時14分

Just download song and listen

#41

Der tüddelige Fußgänger 2022年1月31日 12時38分

Dr. Snap, The Wizard の投稿を引用：
People seem to slave themselves to all sorts of music clients like Apple Music, YouTube, and Spotify. What happened to local downloads?

Same thing with gaming. Games don't come in self-contained folders anymore. They are connected to bloated clients that need accounts and internet connections.

People want corporations to hold their hand through everything. Your music? Let big brother Google stream it for you. Your games? Let big brother Valve control when you can and can't play.

It's sad to see.

Problem is that if you want to get rid of microsoft and use linux, steam is almost the only option, since steam is the only gaming platform with a native linux version. gog has drm free games, but their client is windows only. Nothing impossible to overcome but surely harder

Thats also very important. It's scarry to see how much big tech spies on you on so many levels. Like if or when you pause a video or song, if you listen twice.
Amazon even pays book autors just by how much you've read them if you buy them digitally. You still pay full price. But the autors get less if you only read half of it.
Same for music on spotify.
Those tech firms collect every single bit of data they can get their hands possibly on.
They can't track you if you just listen to the songs locally from a mp3 file.

#42

crunchyfrog 2022年2月1日 9時16分

Catalyst の投稿を引用：
Compared to a downloaded music files, spotify has better audio quality

That entirely depends where you get your music from.

If you buy from Amazon, not even remotely true.

I can't remember offhand what Spotify uses as it's streaming bitrate, but it's usually around 128kbps with many streaming places. 192kbps is comparable to CD, and with streaming you can often get other loss on top due to compression algorithms and so on.

So even if Spotify uses 192, then it will still be worse than CD most likely.

However if you buy from Amazon, for example, they have a few different rates of MP3. I believe their lowest is 192 and they go up to around 448, iirc.

Also if you can buy FLAC from any of the download services it most certainly will piss all over anything Spotify can put out as FLAC is lossless.

I rarely buy digital downloads myself, as I prefer to get physical copies either on CD, SACD, BluRay audio or vinyl.

But in any case, I do audio engineering as well and whenever I mess around with my own mixes and recordings, I make sure I monitor the audio spectrum intensely, and I just do it for other music out of habit.

And for that reason I know for certain that I've yet to encounter any streaming come close.

#43

Crystal Sharrd 2022年2月1日 9時28分

Peter の投稿を引用：
Spotify isn't a piracy tool like those other links you mentioned.

:winter2019neutralbulb::winter2019neutralyul::steamsunny:

AFAIK yt-dlp is meant as an archival tool.

#44

tyl0413 2022年2月1日 17時02分

bc they don't want to do the work themselves

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