• morrowind
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    24 days ago

    There are three morbillion songs and I have no idea which ones I like. Streaming platforms became popular for a reason

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      24 days ago

      Yeah most people don’t care to maintain a local music library. It’s a lot of work and compared to streaming services that do it for you this offers no real benefit. If you listen to lots of new/different music all the time, streaming is actually far cheaper.

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        24 days ago

        For me, discovery is the entire reason to use streaming services. I have a ton of hard drive space, and know how to find anything I want to download. I have a fairly large music collection from before the days of streaming. But streaming services help me discover all kinds of things I’d likely never hear otherwise. They still suck, as in they’re greedy as hell and the quality is mid, but I don’t know what I’d do if I had to listen to the same stuff all the time.

      • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.works
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        24 days ago

        It’s cheaper because the band doesn’t get paid as much. The streaming service keeps most of the meager pay.

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          24 days ago

          People make up for it by buying merch or going to shows. Margins on those things are much better for the artists.

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          24 days ago

          In every service I know of, the platform takes a minority of revenue

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        24 days ago

        The last streaming service that didn’t just try and shove whatever was generically popular in my face every time I used it was Last.fm.

        I think it shut down sometime this past year.

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        24 days ago

        “It is a lot of work”? I don’t know, for me it always seemed far more convenient than being locked to a single service, single player app and following restrictions.

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      24 days ago

      Yeah this is fucking peak internet snobbery. “Just spend thousands dollars on music” ok.