It's official: getting music on the high seas is easier than purchasing it through approved channels.
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It's official: getting music on the high seas is easier than purchasing it through approved channels.
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It's official: getting music on the high seas is easier than purchasing it through approved channels.
@SallyStrange Does this call for that "always has been" meme?
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@SallyStrange Does this call for that "always has been" meme?
@mkj Perhaps. There was a time, I think in the mid-20-teens, when it was easier to just buy a song for $0.99 on Apple or whatever. For me anyway. Possibly I just wasn't into piracy as much as I should have been at the time.
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@mkj Perhaps. There was a time, I think in the mid-20-teens, when it was easier to just buy a song for $0.99 on Apple or whatever. For me anyway. Possibly I just wasn't into piracy as much as I should have been at the time.
@SallyStrange And there certainly was a time when at least for most the *only* option to be able to listen to a song when you wanted to was to go into a store and buy the record. Or find someone who owned a record *and* to whom your parents would let you lug along the reel-to-reel tape recorder...
I have a short list of places where I can actually legit buy mainstream music; but sometimes it simply boils down to "hope someone puts up a used CD for sale". If that song was ever released on CD.
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@mkj Perhaps. There was a time, I think in the mid-20-teens, when it was easier to just buy a song for $0.99 on Apple or whatever. For me anyway. Possibly I just wasn't into piracy as much as I should have been at the time.
@SallyStrange @mkj I think also as funky as itunes/ms music/etm. was, they were built for managing your collection of music instead of a marketplace for upselling you on more streaming. To say another way, for me the desire to have albums is no longer served by popular music apps on major platforms. Strawberry/VLC/FooBar2000/mpd serve me better than apple music or spotify.
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@SallyStrange @mkj I think also as funky as itunes/ms music/etm. was, they were built for managing your collection of music instead of a marketplace for upselling you on more streaming. To say another way, for me the desire to have albums is no longer served by popular music apps on major platforms. Strawberry/VLC/FooBar2000/mpd serve me better than apple music or spotify.
@castanea_jo Most of them also only let you have DRM-encumbered opaque blobs, not actual (in this case) music that you get to keep and can use independent of wherever you "purchased" it from.
For mainstream music, I'm a fan of Qobuz because they actually let you *buy to keep* in high quality (44/16/2 lossless is their baseline). There's also 7digital. Plus of course places like Bandcamp for the indie music itch, but most of what one finds there isn't stuff people have heard of.
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@castanea_jo Most of them also only let you have DRM-encumbered opaque blobs, not actual (in this case) music that you get to keep and can use independent of wherever you "purchased" it from.
For mainstream music, I'm a fan of Qobuz because they actually let you *buy to keep* in high quality (44/16/2 lossless is their baseline). There's also 7digital. Plus of course places like Bandcamp for the indie music itch, but most of what one finds there isn't stuff people have heard of.
@mkj @castanea_jo Gonna check out Qobuz, gracias! And yeah I'm a big fan of bandcamp but it's not good for Mr. Biggest French Pop Star In The World Right Now's stuff (Gims, if you were wondering)
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@mkj @castanea_jo Gonna check out Qobuz, gracias! And yeah I'm a big fan of bandcamp but it's not good for Mr. Biggest French Pop Star In The World Right Now's stuff (Gims, if you were wondering)
@SallyStrange Yes, definitely check them out. They *also* offer streaming, and they do have a subscription tier where you get a discount on studio-quality downloads, but you can use one or the other. I think they call it the download store. Search can be a little wonky but *most* of their catalog is available for purchase, and you get DRM-free, CD-quality FLAC or higher quality downloads.
