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I have an account but am very much on and off again. Tend to listen to stuff to try before I buy. But it's great to check stuff out with. I will listen in my car but tend to throw on CDs or a Bandcamp MP3 on a thumb drive. A lot of my streaming at work is directly from Bandcamp whether its albums I own of stuff I've saved for listening to evaluate before buying. 

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We have been here before, but I will bite. FUCK SPOTIFY. My son -  who is of sound and good opinion on most things - disagrees. A couple of weeks ago he piqued my interest with a Mongolian band that he found on Spotify - throat singing and amplified erhu. ( It seemed intriguing, but in fact was shit.) His argument was the same as ever -  how else could we have found the band and a few cents is better than nothing.

Well, I didn't need to find them and if I'd liked them I would have bought their album and given them more than a few cents.

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On 10/30/2018 at 5:02 AM, Fraser said:

I will be the odd one out then, I use Spotify every single day with out fail, Have done for years. Great music selection, granted some of the more underground stuff is not on it but a lot of the what I would class as underground stuff I listen to is.

100% agreed.

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On 5/8/2022 at 11:59 PM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I call bullshit. I'm pretty fucking old too but I know that everyone who doesn't live in a deep dark cave somewhere in the remote uncharted mountains of Afghanistan knows what Spotify is. I haven't ever used it myself, but I certainly know what it is.

I knew it was an app, didn't know what it was for. Believe what you want.

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I still use Spotify to check out new music and build playlists of music I own to listen to on the go (usually in places with no reliable Internet). The playlist function is really second to none and the recommendation algorithm and smart function makes it a no brainier. I don't have my full vinyl collection ripped to digital and I ain't paying for digie copies of all that shit again, so I don't feel so bad for using it in this case. Plus the fam is all invested in their own playlists and have finally figured out how to use the app without my assistance. And I'm not going through that hell again no matter what platform it is.

For me personally, I've started with Tidal. SQ is good but it's not really for that. I've switched my home server to Roon and only Tidal and Qobuz will work on that platform whereas the old one could utilize Spotify. Still in the process of building playlists in the app, so not fully switched yet. I do find Spotify to have a better algorithm for recs and a bigger catalog. Tidal has the better UI (or at least prettier) and better SQ on the hifi. Price is roughly the same. I did play around with Qobuz briefly but found no real advantage over Tidal.

No streaming service is perfect, but they do serve a useful function. If people wouldn't be dicks and actually pay for the music they like/listen to repeatedly, I don't think this would be a big issue for anyone. Still superior in everyway to terrestrial radio IMO.

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56 minutes ago, navybsn said:

 

No streaming service is perfect, but they do serve a useful function. If people wouldn't be dicks and actually pay for the music they like/listen to repeatedly, I don't think this would be a big issue for anyone. Still superior in everyway to terrestrial radio IMO.

Totally agree.  I still buy stuff I actually want.

But it would help if streaming services paid decent royalties to artists.

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