• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Kind reminder that no streaming platform is very good on the ethical front. There are no ethical alternatives because the root of the problem is the legal strangle hold labels and record companies keep on artists and commercial music distribution.

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      The ethical alternative is listening to mp3s straight from your own hard-drive, just like we did in the '50s.

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        5 hours ago

        Dude, I remember my grandpa telling me about ripping CDs back then. The computers they used were the size of entire rooms and could only rip at .5x

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          then do that. If you don’t have enough space, get an external hard drive. If you want convenience, you can attach the hard drive to a raspberry pi and access the music from anywhere. You’ll probably never get as convenient as spotify, but hey, you gotta decide what your values are and if that means being a streaming-vegan then that’s the sacrifice you gotta make.

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            I feel like there is a step missing here. Do you mean physically take the raspberry pi and HD with you (I mean, you could but it’s not terribly elegant) or are you talking about just setting it up to stream the music.

            If your referring to streaming, is there a program you can recommend to easily stream it outside of you home network? I.e. access anywhere.

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        I have found a bunch of my new favorite songs this year on Jellyfin. Some of them are pretty old too, lol.

        It worked pretty well doing it the old human-based way, where I got a bunch of albums because I liked the band or even just a particular song. Listening through those or just playing the whole pile on shuffle led me to find plenty of gems that I stuck in my playlist.

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        Not actively, they stopped trying to make money long ago. Since 2018 you can’t buy anything from them and artists are leaving. No new releases since then, of course.

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          I suppose that is to be expected. They were really not noticed, and spotify more or less put every other option out of business.

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      Tidal puts artists first, and pretty awesome.

      Can’t promise that’s how they are forever, but that’s how they are today.