damn if only there was a way to avoid this
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I may be stupid; what are you referring to by “a way to avoid this”. Is it spotify having better internal architecture or there being less of a monopoly on music streaming platforms?
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LMAO I was listening to my tunes while fiddling with Tabletop stuff and until I saw this I was wondering if maybe I had finally been banned for circumventing Premium
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I suspect what is meant is “what if we all just didn’t use Spotify” LMAO
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what crow said sorry for being too cute with it lmfao
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i think what barquq means is by not using spotify haha.
which i am guilty of still doing :( i tried to set up that one rss feed email thing for new releases (begins with an m, can’t think of the name), but i find new releases first on spotify every time unfortunately. 
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i don’t blame anyone for using spotify btw this isn’t a judgemental post. things that reduce friction will always be popular. i just think the friction-reduction is being outpaced by the enshittification at this point LOL
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no you’re like EXACTLY RIGHT it’s just… am lazy. i’m slowly working on cobbling together my music library from soulseek and Other Sources but it’s hard when i’m not a big album guy i’m a “likes one song from one album by this artist and That’s It” guy a lot of the time
but no yeah. i wonder if it’s Just Spotify or another like, cloudflare thing like if we’re gonna be seeing other services down here shortly or smth
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ya that’s how it is for me… weirdly I’m not a big Music Guy so the initiation effort it would take for me to switch off Spotify is too high to bother atm. I may have a random spike of energy that pushes me to do it at some point though.
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how do you all find new music? i’m not as reliant on spotify for discovery as i used to be, so my other options are irl, chat servers, and clicking around youtube and soundcloud hoping to find something good, occasionally bandcamp editorial cranks out decent recs
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I get my music recommendations from maybe three sources max:
- specific friends
- one specific forum/Discord server that isn’t this one
- this forum
I also followed surasshu on Cohost for a while and got recommendations that way as well. Recs from other musicians are, as spinning-valiant said, interesting!
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I’ve been tempted at various points to kill it. This is the post that really provided a reasonable alternative for me because “getting all this shit on my phone by hooking it up to my computer like it’s the 2000’s” is something I don’t really ever intend to go back to.
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I like to browse the music collections on the internet archive to find new music
It’s nice because I can listen to it un my browser and if I like it I can download it right there
Cohost on bandcamp fridays was a good spot. Sometimes i find new stuff from youtube, but i need to expand my horizons for music discovery. I kinda wanna try doing a media server. I did it a long time ago when i had a ps3 as my main console.
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Setting up a media server is great and more people should do it
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Perpetual “at some point” goal to switch to an android phone build a digital library and set up a media server…
Aside from not using spotify due to distrust of subscription services, something inscrutable about spotify’s web backend - whether it’s the actual website, or just a widget/embed on another site - causes our decade old secondary monitor to limit and scramble its colour palette.
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