I love it. The streaming services deserve to die, for their shady practices towards artists...
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No one should use garbage Spotify!
Honest question, how else do I easily discover music that matches my taste if I don't use a streaming service?
Spotify isn't the only streaming service, it's just one of the worst, like ethically.
and to answer your question there are sites like Rate Your Music that let you find albums similar to albums you like.
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last.fm is pretty good. download music locally, scrobble it to last.fm, look at recommendations ans/or similar artists. also recommendations from fans tend to work well (comment sections, subreddits, forums, etc)
- Talk to other human beings about music.
Music is not meant to be a solitary hobby. Share what you like, they'll share what they like.
- Like a piece of music? Look up that producer, or record label if it's small. Look up the session musicians. Don't just look up the artist.
Generally it's not just the artist that makes the music top tier. There are other great professionals involved in the background and good people hire other good people to work in the background.
This is easy. Once you start doing this you end up with a queue of albums you want to get round to listening to. It's easy enough to find too much music yourself without an algorithm. You start finding the artist radio a waste of your time.
The rabbit holes I've been down following a producer, guitarist, or bassist, etc. are usually very rewarding and often you pop up in another place you knew already after finding out about some lesser known great music on the way.
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Shit. This is honestly the thing that's going to make me cancel Spotify.
What's the alternative? Spotify has almost all the music I want to hear. I don't think the competitors do, and there's no easy way to check.
Any new service I sign up for will need to have my favorite obscure band of all time: Splashdown. I don't own a computer, so piracy is not an option. Where do I go?
Qobuz is what i have my eyes on.
Only reason I haven't switched over yet is me and my friends share a lot of music together so I've been working on a personal discord bot to share the different links, and I've yet to get it working 100% yet (it failed when testing with a rick Astley album of all things)
FWIW Apple Music has two Splashdown albums. Not really recommended per se, but it’s the service I have access to and was able to look it up for you. I think they have a 1 month free trial available?
Thanks for checking. I don't have any Apple products, but it's good to know it's an option.
I do believe there is an android app if you get desperate 🤪
I'm a huge splashdown fan. I was able to mail CVB records back in the day and get all manner of stuff.
Wonderful publisher to send me free content. Love those guys.
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Not having a computer doesn't mean you can't pirate, you could easily rent a seedbox for like €5/month (eg. https://ultra.cc/) and control torrents on it from your phone eg with transdrone or other apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.transdroid.lite
You can just torrent shit on your phone if you have Android lol
Yeah but there's a lot of downsides to that tbh, certainly if you want to use any decent private trackers I wouldn't recommend it.
Many of the torrent clients easily available in the play store are spammy/ad-filled or blocked by private trackers, and you're never gonna seed anything meaningfully from your phone due to it going to sleep and using 4G etc. so if you're trying to build up a ratio you're gonna struggle.
For anyone who wants to be able to access all of the music in the world, in high quality (not just whatever popular releases end up on public trackers), I would say it's very much worth it to use a cheap seedbox - seeding 24/7 from a fast connection makes it much easier to build up a ratio and if you just seed everything indefinitely, before you know it you'll have a huge buffer and be able to download whatever you want without thinking.
For example the private tracker I use for most of my music (RED) has everything ever released by the obscure band mentioned by OP ("Splashdown") whereas you probably can't find much of that on public trackers.
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You can pirate on your phone just fine, there's libretorrent on f-droid, new pipe can stream and download stuff from youtube and youtube music, you can also download from deezer on telegram with @linemusicbot and @deezload2bot.
(Rimusic and kreator also exist but are buggy)
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Totally just bought a Massive Attack shirt from their website. Their "Ceasefire Now" shirts with the Doctors Without Borders quote are amazing.
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