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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Spotify. It is the only subscription I have aside from my VPN, and mostly because their library is MASSIVE.

With how much I drive I'm constantly listening to the damn thing and being able to pick a genre and let it shuffle without thinking about it is 1000% worth the ten bucks a month to not be constantly picking songs, downloading them, sorting and transferring the library to my phone, maintaining storage space, etc....

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, discovery was one of my main reasons for using it. Getting my own music just sounds like a huge undertaking considering how I listen on a whim.

[–] MSH29@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Have you tried ViMusic?

[–] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure. I could. But you misunderstand my point. As Gaben said, piracy is a service problem, not a cost problem. Spotify's service is clean and very nice to use, add on the available library and it makes it very worth my time to pay for and support it.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah. I’ll pay a reasonable price for a service with lots of stuff on it if it’s reliable and has a great UI. I’ve considered Spotify, even though I have my beautiful flac collection. It’d be nice not to have to worry about converting them to my phone so I can listen in my car.