Honestly, I think this is the biggest reason that music subscriptions are popular.
Nobody cares enough to curate their own music collection anymore, even if it’s entirely legal, it’s just too much damn work for most people.
Unless you have a special interest in music, eg, audiophiles, then it doesn’t matter enough to spend any time on it. As long as you can listen to what you want, when you want, who cares?
Yep, I have a plex server, ihave radarr, sonarr setup, there is probably a same software for music or something similar that would let me get music easily, but I just don’t care, spotify discover weekly has been serving me well, we are 4 people paying into a family plan so it’s less than 3 euros a month.
This is me too. I completely have the know-how to obtain any media but I still pay for Spotify. I have a shared plan with my parents. It’s literally my only subscription. I listen to music constantly. Even with the price hikes it’s been a huge value.
It’s nice when it works, but Plex has so thoroughly enshitified themselves now it needs internet access to stream on the home network! (Yes, I have read the KB/wiki pages and done the setup but it loses user management when connecting that way by IP).
too much fucking hassle.
Some consider it a hassle, others of us obsessively enjoy manually downloading and sorting our files into our folder structure.
I’ve got a collection going back to a 128k MP3 from a Napster download in 2000. Hundreds of gigabytes of lossless music.
Bandcamp is great, but I use Redacted for those I can’t easily find.
Honestly, I think this is the biggest reason that music subscriptions are popular.
Nobody cares enough to curate their own music collection anymore, even if it’s entirely legal, it’s just too much damn work for most people.
Unless you have a special interest in music, eg, audiophiles, then it doesn’t matter enough to spend any time on it. As long as you can listen to what you want, when you want, who cares?
Yep, I have a plex server, ihave radarr, sonarr setup, there is probably a same software for music or something similar that would let me get music easily, but I just don’t care, spotify discover weekly has been serving me well, we are 4 people paying into a family plan so it’s less than 3 euros a month.
This is me too. I completely have the know-how to obtain any media but I still pay for Spotify. I have a shared plan with my parents. It’s literally my only subscription. I listen to music constantly. Even with the price hikes it’s been a huge value.
It’s nice when it works, but Plex has so thoroughly enshitified themselves now it needs internet access to stream on the home network! (Yes, I have read the KB/wiki pages and done the setup but it loses user management when connecting that way by IP).