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- 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Meme: Amphibian creature labelled “Spotify” emerging from a body of water, but being pushed back. Captions read: “Stop them! Don’t let a single company rule them all. If you see a Horrid Beast monopolizing, push it back in.”
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I buy music from Bandcamp. Drm free. Musicians get a bigger cut. You can write a note to the band when you buy and sometimes they write back. Their recommendations and write-ups feel more human than algorithm. Feels pretty good. Renting music on Spotify sounds like a bad deal for me and my personal habits.
Of course, they sold themselves and probably will enshittify in a couple years.
For older stuff that’s not on Bandcamp… Honestly I don’t feel bad about pirating music that’s 15 years old. Copyright is too long, anyway.
And for new mega pop stuff? Not my jam, but I’d probably still buy it drm free somewhere.
I used to use 7digital for music before the streaming days. Still have a few dozen gigabytes on my disks. DRM free, high Bitrate mp3s.
It’s one thing to rule them all and a whole other to lock users into your platform
Apple monopolized the podcast market for a decade but never stopped people from using the podcasts there with whatever client people wanted to use it with
Spotify is just going the shitty route and forcing people to use their client and not just their servers
How did apple monopolize podcasts? They are just audio served by RSS.
They are using monopoly loosely. To run a podcast through Apple was easy and you could run it on many platforms. On Spotify you are locked into using their services. Just because Apple had the vast majority of podcasts at the beginning did not make them a monopoly, Spotify forcing podcasts to either be on their large platform or not be makes them a monopoly.
I’m not a native speaker - I just wanted to say that for a very long time, most podcasts where hosted on iTunes and that was (and kind of still is) the go-to place for podcast-reviews/ratings
And as I said: they kept the system open despite their market position
Anyone here know of a good open-source and/or federated platform for music and podcasts? I heard of Funkwhale, but is it usable?
I like AntennaPod for podcasts.
just use Soulseek (through Nicotine+) and Torrents (through a free/libre client of your choice) and if you like some smaller artist buy their stuff on Bandcamp or even better Mirlo
gonna fix my moms old walkman & put my music on her blank tapes…maybe ill try and join red or orph and upload her mega collection of music there idk
In the mid-2000s, I remember getting a podcast for my coworker and putting it on 80min CDs so he can play it in his car. So CDs were like [episode 15]. And sometimes, the podcast would go long so I had to make two CDs.
He didn’t have an MP3 player and didnt know how to use the internet. And he paid me a few bucks for the work.
I think I made like a $100 from reselling free podcasts to my coworker.
I’m doing my part, I set up Navidrome on my home server today 💪