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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- #music #spotify #applemusic
In this video, we delve into the reasons why Spotify deserves its downfall. From issues with artist compensation to the impact on the music industry as a whole, we explore the controversial aspects of the popular music streaming platform. Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the future of Spotify.
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Ok I hear you, but how am i going to transfer my 2k songs to another service tho?
Someone said there’s an app or something I’ll look for the comment. Other than that just dedication for the game!
Edit:SongShift, Soundiiz, or TuneMyMusic
There's a shitload of apps that will convert your playlist
Maybe start buying music on physical media
Here noone can take anything away from u, u buy it once, its yours
I'm stuck with almost 8k...
I transfered aroud 6k songs to Apple Music from Spotify. There's a lot of software for that.
Im going back to my teen years and imma just burn CDs and get an mp3 play with a 1tb SD card. I'm tired this shit
That's what I did and I found that I've been enjoying + appreciating music more too. Something about consciously selecting the albums I wanna hear from before I get in the car + only having those options VS picking from innumerable songs or playlists on my phone
I also use "pulsar" on my phone to organize my favorites that I have downloaded
Just did the same thing for movies and Shows, i have canceled netflix, bought a DVD player and now im just renting dvds from the public library for 20 bucks per year
ive been buying albums, instead of renting music from spotify I buy an album a month, the same price and I get to keep it forever. Maybe two if I have money to spend, in a year or two my library will me massive.
I have been doing this for a few years but using an old phone as an mp3 player and I have a double din in my truck and I converted music videos to the format my double din accepts and now can watch music videos in the truck through a USB drive. Taking it back to the early 00s
You know what, imma start doing this again.
I’m a small artist, my BIGGEST song made 6 dollars, but that shit felt like eeeeeverything. Bro but now Spotify is basically shrinking my already minuscule profit but charging me MORE??? They dared me to cancel and I said bet, we on YT now
Called that bluff!
Yessir! In a heart beat
spoti who? u mean that app I deleted when Rogan didn't shut up about the vaccine, just constantly having boring comedians kiss his ass and talking bout murderers, savages, beasts, n some game called quake from a time when nobody knew what a gigabyte was.
TH-cam premium is hands down the best !
Bro idk why but my Spotify is glitched on Xbox where I don't have ads and it's when I connect my Polish Samsung phone I got last year in army in poland😂 it's weird. Free Spotify 😂😂
Cancelled my membership a week ago. And the reason I told them was due to their mistreatment of smaller artists. Paying them like an eigth of a penny per stream is pretty gross. We are practically one tick above piracy at that rate. Except its worse in a way because we're paying the people directly responsible for taking money from artist's pockets.
Didnt mind the service as a whole but I cant support a company like that in good faith. HARD pass. Thieves!!
Honestly I may have to cancel too. I had the student one which was like $5 a month including Hulu. I graduated and they canceled my membership. I tried to apply again because I'm in grad school and they said no 😵💫
Over the past two years I've enjoyed building up my CD collection so I may have to buy a big black case for my CDs soon ☠️
The thing that also pissed me off is even when i scrapped together money for premium, they started putting xtra ads into my podcasts and wanted 3$ xtra per podcast to remove the ads !! ( not the ad readsin the podcasts additional spliced in ads)
Buy Vinyl instead
As an artist, I'd much appreciate if people switched to using Apple Music because they actually pay decently, are cheaper and don't make artists pay just to upload their lyrics to the platform for people to see.
Actually, I have been for the past last year trying to figure out where I'm going to be uploading my music so thank you for this comment because I was already leading towards Apple, but not knowing if I should go all in
Asking this as a music fan, not an artist myself, but do you know how youtube music compares to apple and spotify? I've been considering switching from spotify recently and want to make the best choice for artists that I can.
@@liamwithaspace TH-cam Music also pays by the stream, it's more than Spotify, at .008 cents per stream, but it's still laughable. and it also gets complicated. I can actually upload my music videos to Apple Music directly and be compensated for it, whereas on TH-cam I have to be in the creators program (which requires 3k+ watch hours/1 Year) in order to monetize.
@@liamwithaspace youtube music is wayyy better than spotify. I don't know about Apple music because I use an android (S24). But if I used an iPhone, I will definitely try out Apple music. TH-cam music's catalogue is more expansive than spotify's. You can find anything there. My music preference was in limbo state for a while, till I started using ytmusic. I've discovered so many artists there. So you can try out ytmusic free plan. (better than spotify's. Only thing you can't do with a ytmusic free plan is play music in the background) while you test out Apple music as well.
Glad to hear. I was using Apple Music already because it easily synced with my iPhone (for example, when someone sends me a text with a song, I can easily find it in Apple Music under “music sent to you” or whatever it’s called) but glad to know there are more reasons to keep it
Not TH-cam having the video start with an unskippable Spotify ad💀
its just because it says spotify in the titel bro😂 happens so often with other things aswell.
Spotify used their small artists cumulative profits for that ad spend.😅
TH-cam is dumb for doing that, consider that TH-cam Music is a thing. Why not just advertise your own services instead?
@@arctictropic1147 It's actually very interesting, anyone can make a youtube ad as long as they pay for it.that's why a lot of them are so low quality
I do TH-cam premium and use their TH-cam music. I like it I’m just streaming in the car or gym. Works fine.
The worst part is that Spotify has a lyric limit behind an outrageous paywall.
especially when i can fucking google the lyrics for free anytime i want lmfao
@@sillygoose420 But it does not in sync with the playing song, nor the in-built translate.
@@tuank624I didn't even know Spotify had an inbuilt translate. I have never come across a song in another language that has ever been translated. Is that like a setting you have to manually turn on or something? But no still, you can get on the internet and get all that for free for way more artists and unofficial songs
@@tuank624 Half the time, they don't even sync properly anyway! 😭
@@LPSgirl00half the time lyrics are unavailable anyways!
Mans did a poll then shitted on 51% of the people that selected Spotify😂 flwrs is goated
Str8 villian shi 🤣
Selected Spotify, agree with him tho. Flwrs W
I use TH-cam music and prefer it. I have no ads on TH-cam or with TH-cam music. I find it extremely useful
Facts, it makes me feel like I'm not even paying for music since I watch more youtube than anything (premium even got a couple of good movies too).
Same
Same, but I used to use Apple Music and their recommendations aren’t as good as TH-cam Music’s. I like it because TH-cam Music has a good balance of recommending you songs you’ve listened to and also some new songs you haven’t heard. THEN, there’s the fact that you can listen to independently uploaded songs (you just upload music as a video) which makes finding obscure covers and other stuff way easier
i got premium but didnt even use yt music lol, i think in should look into it
edit: neither i used spotify tbh
YT music is criminally underated
I'm getting real sick of companies treating their customers like shit and getting away with it because of the bootlickers who rush to defend them anytime anyone says anything and because people will say they'll stop using the product and buying future ones but then go back to buying it and using it in like a week.
I make music and lots of people have asked me about putting it on Spotify and everytime they ask me I say I will but I secretly just don't want to do it. I don't like Spotify, I don't like the shit they pull, and I don't want people to use it more because my stuff's on there. There's a reason I basically forgot my login to my account and have never looked back since.
'I believe Spotify hinders creativity and encourages artists to make safe and repetitive music'. Preach! I've almost got into arguments with musicians younger than me that are purposefully adapting their works to optimize for algorithm performance.
So upsetting, art should be free from these restraints 💪🌹
NB: almost as in I stopped myself when I realized that it's not their fault! They are raised in an environment that takes this for granted, very troubling for the future of music and arts.
These comments make me realize some of yall really would stay in a pot of boiling water just as long as they went up in 1 degree increments on the way
THIS IS SO FUNNY WHAT
This world is sad man. People actually just eat up the garbage left behind by Big Tech ://
@@dollluvdolly This isn't funny. It's sad people suck off Big Tech...
Bunch of frogs
@@fran8926 yall wilding yall not even seeing the point of his video. People will not care until artists decide to remove their music from these services.
615 million users x $1.00 that’s an extra 615 million dollars
A month
Ya but as a consumer i do not care about paying one more dollar
Also not all customers are not paying to use Spotify most are free users
They will end like Whatsapp, remember when you had to pay to use it? Yeah, then they started failing against BBM and FB eventually bought them and made it free for use
@@jabarigraham8 That’s fair.
239 paid subscribers. So 239 mill more a month
I use the free version of Pandora and Spotify and honestly it is rare that Spotify is even my preferred streaming service. The amount of ads these services run should be more than enough to pay out on the music and continue to invest in infrastructure. Those who pay for the service are a bonus to the service. If they can't manage the funds correctly then maybe the service deserves to die, you should live and die on the decisions you make for your business that is the risk you accept when you start a business.
lol no company that makes it to a 7 figure income ever has to accept any risk, the government will bail them out every time, even if they're still making a profit!
@@Jane-oz7pp Yeah, but they're Swedish. Probably won't make a difference though.
Thats a really good point bro, they're making money whether paid or free. How are they still losing money?
You have no IDEA how much audio ads pay. 🤣 Your ads don't pay for jack $**t. 🤷 Spotify doesn't even come f**king CLOSE to breaking even! No music streaming service does! The entire concept of ala-carte music streaming with a monthly subscription is fundamentally flawed unless that subscription is >=$30 a month. Otherwise it simply does not math.
@@adamknight5089They aren't making money dumbarse. 🤦😑 The music streaming agreements with the record labels cost way, WAAAAAAAY more than what they make in ads of free users and subscription fees from paying ones. The math simply does not work. Spotify/Apple/Tidal/etc would have to charge around $30 a month per user for these companies to actually break even.
CD's are the best physical media that exists. I love album art and liner notes plus all the weird things/hidden tracks artists did in the 90's and 2000's.
I'm a musician myself & I understand the frustration. But I'm also in IT. My guess is that one of the main reasons for the price increase is the infrastructure it needs to store data. Imagine the massive amounts of data Spotify needs to store, the cooling system a data center needs, employees to maintain them, the redundancy it needs & if they need another location to add more data centers, which they have to pay for that building or land or whatever. Big data is insane & now they are relying on Google Cloud for that as well.
But that's not what the company explicitly told us the price increase is for.
You make a great point, _if it wasn't wrong_
i'm working at music industry and i can tell that all dsps accept the same amount of releases. like 1 release goes everywhere you can imagine. therefore apple and spotify have the same amount of releases, but apple didn't increase the price for "extending their data servers"
@@s4intgermain True. But you also have to consider the Enterprise value. Apple is close to 4 Trillion USD
@@calithree yeah, sorry my bad. forgotten about this. as I've understood tidal didn't raise the price recently, i think they can be a better comparison here
@@s4intgermain Yea. I myself would of course prefer if they didn't increase the price just yet, or at least be very specific and more transparent.
I’m conflicted with Spotify being problematic. I only like Spotify because it doesn’t delete my playlists if I was to stop paying for my subscription. Apple Music pisses me off when they do that 😤 & it’s frustrating because when I play radio I feel like Spotify exposes me to more artists while Apple Music be putting the mainstream music artists paid Apple to promote 😤
Here's a thought: buy the music, keep REAL offline copies on your local storage, and then YOU will be in control of your playlists.
@@KTSpeedruns that’s a cute idea but I don’t have $200+ to spend on single songs. I do plan on going to concerts to support artists for sure but buying every single song isn’t realistic for me
There's a few services that'll let you port Spotify playlists over to TH-cam! That's what I do and then I use Bandcamp to find new artists and add them to TH-cam playlists!
YT music is a good middle ground. They pay more than double per stream compared to Spotify, your playlists never disappear, their free model still allows for you to play specific songs unlike Spotify, and if you go premium it's the same price as Spotify premium while giving you both the music benefits and the video benefits to boot
Look at Tidal :)
Their downfall has already started, imagine they make you have a limit for how many songs you can listen to bro ONG I’m not paying to listen to my mitski and cat millionaires
They’re heart checkin people right now and it’s time to do it back
We the people need to bring back boycotting. Or pull a “cancel culture” on big corporations, for the Z’s. Seems to be a forgotten form of peaceful protest. Buy physical media from your local but sell trade. Support local business.
Fsociety
The thing I hate about Spotify is that it’s basically unusable without paying for premium
Mod it
Let me just say there are solutions
Guess what, buddy. Nothing is free in life. How much do you think producing an album costs to musicians? And you want it all for free?
@@sebas1111_ You are acting like spotify actually pays artists fairly
@@sebas1111_How does the boot taste? Also, there are companies that offer similar services for way better prices and perks.
We all go back to buying CD's and supporting our favorite artist for real.
CD's also have a way better sound quality without compression and monthly paywall.
Fu** moneygreedy Streaming services
Yes to this. I’m an artist and I mix and master my own songs and it’s so frustrating how much the quality is lost on Spotify. Soundcloud and Apple Music support much higher quality and CDs can have the top quality possible if you rip the HD WAVs. I am getting an old ipod or mp3 player and doing this from now on too. I’m so fed up of these big companies stealing from artists and customers and bad quality music and adverts. I just want my money to go to the artists directly! Not to a huge company so they can just not pay the artists I wanna support 😂
6:46 🖐🏿 ...and because I stay collecting music, i stay using the shuffel button, simply because I like *_variety._*
Streaming has outstayed their welcome in general. We should go back to buying albums. We’re already listening to the same few artists and albums so why not buy those albums ?
As a whole, I'd say you're right, but I personally listen to a lot of different artists, genres, and songs. I really miss owning my music though, so recently, I've been backing up my music digitally and buckling down on my vinyl collection.
What he said!
@@liamwithaspaceSame. I still go out and buy CDs, be they physically or digitally.
@@liamwithaspace I think about it likes this. I love all the artists I listen to and I don’t want there to be a possibility of being price out of my library. With streaming that can be a very real possibility
I would but things like record players cost so muchh
I’m going back to Apple Music and CDs. Curse new cars for not having a CD player 😒
Maybe they will bring back CD Players when more and more people buy CD's again because they are so much better.
If you buy a CD you support your artist and you own it and don't need to stick them your money in their a** every month
Not sure how old your car is but…3mm jack aux out to a portable cd player (the ones with a “line out” will sound better but a headphone jack works too). Power with batteries or, if “car ready” you can get a cigarette lighter power connection. It’s crazy seeing people talk about this old stuff. Crazier that I can use it…
@@fab555trainspottingandmoreI’ve been saying that for a long time but cds 💿 and records people 💿💿💿🤣📀📀👍👍👍support ur favorite artist let streaming go to hell 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
I have an 07 RAV4 and stole a 6 cd changing radio from the wreckers. Swapped out the stock one for the "new" one and worked immediately. Now I can pick 6 albums to cycle through until I want to switch them out! Also has an aux port and Bluetooth hands-free and a Bluetooth receiver plugged into the aux port for when I just want to use my phone for music
I switched to spotify late last year and my spotify wrap was super suspicious. It had artist in my top that had zero songs in my most played. One being Drake
same
ariana grande & olivia R i skip their songs EVERY TIME
Dude the Walkman era with the huge zip up cd book was the best. When I got my first cd player with anti-skip I was so stoked to go skate while listening to music. Game changer lol
With those curves headphones everyone had lol
I started buying CDs and I have a zip up CD book and iPods to crap with music. Way better than streaming IMO
Have gone back to buying CDs & haven't looked back regarding streaming services. Thank God physical media still exists regarding music, you own the music & it supports artists more.
Yes cds 💿 forever better sound quality u only pay once and support the artist 🧑🎨 💿💿📀📀📀🎶🎶🤣
I got a Spotify ad while watching this video 😂😂
They’re on to us
@@_FLWRS thanks for the heart man .I appreciate it
Spotify never fails to advertise to people who already use their product
me too😂😂
Man I hated the spotify shuffle so much 😭 It was one of the biggest reason why I switched to Apple Music
Man we should all just go back to vinyl and CDs tbh
Old school is better than streaming cds 💿 better sound quality u own the full albums and listening to music 🎶 on physical media was always better 💿💿📀💿💿👍
I use Apple music, I like the quality and convenience, but I still keep a full library of lossless music (CD Quality) to play on my modded iPod classics. I like to buy CDs of my favorite artists so I will always have them, and as a sort of collection. Listening on a dedicated device can have some nice advantages, my Main iPod has 1TB of SSD storage and the battery lasts over a month. When was the last time you listened to music on your phone, then found yourself scrolling an app, then watching a video? With a dedicated device you can focus on your music, really enjoy it, with no distractions or notifications interrupting it.
I'm 15 but i can still remember using a cd binder that was stored in my mom's car glovebox to play albums that i liked at the time. honestly physical is the way to go since the artist gets more money compared to streaming, AND you pay maybe 10 dollars to have an album forever. if not using cds i say actually buy an album on itunes or something. this should be the new trend.
Yes to this ^
People are starting to wake up to corporate greed
I listened to Sabrina Carpenters Espresso twice, once when it was released, and another a few days later at a party, and it landed in my on repeat 🤔
I have like 8000 songs saved/liked. Been using Spotify since 2012 probably. While I listen to playlists I make that have about 300+ songs, I seldom hear the entire thing. Sad they doin us like this. Guess I’ll start getting actual CD’s and use Spotify to find new artists on the free. But, easier said than done. Been using the app for 12 years.
Now the best music apps to use is
3-apple music
2-yt music
1-soundcloud
SoundCloud at 1 is diabolic
@@junyaiwasefax tidal better
@@junyaiwaseIf you like niche electronic music SoundCloud is #1 undisputed
Or buy a record player
@@kevinquirarte2365I want to but it's so expensive to collect my favorite albums😢 and what if I want to listen to something new? id just go back to online streaming lol
I use an unactivated prepaid phone with a large microSD card as an MP3/audiobook player.
I’ve never felt the need to subscribe to any music streaming service. I follow and discover artists on TH-cam for free and purchase their albums if I’m compelled to.
This is what I used to do all my life until 2016 when I started paying for Spotify. They are about to lose me and I’m gonna go back to my old ways to directly support artists! ❤ I’m an artist myself and they are not paying us anything 😂
i think as a person who makes music, streaming is terrible for discovery but it’s great for commitment. like none of my friends truly expect for us to get selected for a spotify playlist, that application is for midsized artists, but if i put my music in front of someone, i don’t have to push them to buy it. i personally hate and don’t use spotify, my streamer pays artists more, but im not dedicated to any of these brands lol. i think there needs to be more pressure on all of these companies to pay artists more, bcos this price uptick for spotify isn’t going to musicians at all, it’s to add their audiobooks (and pay those people terribly too lmao). if major musicians went on strike/protests for streaming to pay more i think we’d see real progress
Naww that will never happen let’s force people to go ba m to buying cds 💿 and stick with physical media 🤣🤣🤣🙏🙏🙏📀📀💿🎶🎶🎶
Who you choose is subjective, but I personally I am very happy having TH-cam premium. The fact that TH-cam music included, just as like a bonus, still has the largest catalog of music I have came across. I know there was some point where I couldn’t find a song on YTM but found it on Spotify… but it really couldn’t be more than once or twice. Ever. I personally watch TH-cam more than any type of tv or film. It’s a no brainer for me. I also want to add, the algorithm for playlists on YTM is pretty good. I’ve discover quite a bit with it. Like I used to do with pandora.
I for one switched from CDs to buying songs on iTunes. It gives me that sense of having my own personal music library, a carefully curated collection of auditory gems. My media products belong to me and no-one can take them away from me. Never bought into the streaming craze.
Thank god i didn't waste a single cent on spotify premium
Great video, bringing back the iPod/mp3 players is a great idea!
Would really recommend owning music directly rather than streaming it as an artist too as I've made more from a few people directly buying my discography on Bandcamp than I have from thousands of streams.
I bought Illmatic on CD to listen to yesterday, and I still use my iPod video, goated device
I Seen Illmatic At My Local Barnes & Nobel A Couple Weeks Ago But I Ended Up Buying Curtain Call 1 😬
The music industry at large doesn't want small artists to be seen. Then everyone would realize how little we need the old ways.
As a musician, Bandcamp is pretty cool.
pirate and buy merch instead 🙏
Or buy
@@Star_squirrelor both
@@SemekiIzuio yes
Canceled Spotify and got an iPod again.
BEST DECISION! It also helped cut my daily phone usage below an hour.
I bout a CD a month ago, I'd buy more if they were sold by small indie groups
That's true, back when we listened from CDs it was a much more deeper experience. You bought the CD and you listened to it from start to finish, appreciating it deeper with less distraction.
That's why I do FREE Trail cuz I'll Never Pay for a Damn Thing 😂
Yeah, switching to TIDAL was the best decision I made to overcome Spotify's BS. Especially artist payment.
Man I get so excited everything you post. Love it! Keep going!!
I appreciate that for real. Glad you like the videos
I remember getting my music recommendations from compilations on Limewire and on Piratesbay. When I found songs that I liked….I would buy the entire album out of respect for the artist. I miss those days
Why even use Spotify when everything is on YT
Apps like spotify and pandora have better audio quality. TH-cam is pretty flat in comparison and as someone who writes music, i prefer to hear every little sound and all of the depth of the low end.
I don't want the video and waste data and battery life, I just want the song
@@swervysage03that’s Capps cds 💿 have better sound quality that streaming period 👍👍👍📀📀📀💿💿💿🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️😂🤦♀️🤦♀️😂
I recently bought a second gen iPod Mini. Used to have a second gen Nano, but I wanted something I could upgrade, so I replaced the hard drive with a 512G SSD, replaced the battery with a larger capacity battery, and I've got my sweet Sony XM5 headphones that can still do wired connection. My plan is to explore albums and genres that I haven't really tapped into before, and stuff I've never really taken the time to appreciate.
I'm still paying for my family's Spotify accounts, but recently a SECOND one of my top 10 songs of all time was removed from Spotify, so I'm getting charged more for a worse service. With an iPod and ownership of those songs, that won't happen. If I can move anyone else off it and reduce our streaming (since video streaming services are going through some nice enshitification as well), I would be pretty happy.
I got 2, 160gb iPods. I still buy a few songs at a time and possibly find the actual full CD and port them on those iPods, and those songs are there for me to listen to whenever and without any sound streaming issues. So long as the iPods are still working, I’ll still be rocking theme 👍🏼
I've been looking into upgraded/modified ipod classics to re-build my mp3 collection offline. Are you using them with iTunes? Are you buying files from elsewhere? I ask because the iTunes app on windows is ATROCIOUS and it's really turned me off from this route.
@@Fyre0 so ya. I do use the windows iTunes and it’s not very good. How ever a good work around is if you’re iTunes on windows is atleast linked with your Apple ID to purchase music. I tend to use my phone (because it’s an iPhone) to purchase music from iTunes and the song will pop up on my iTunes on my windows laptop pretty quick after purchase, and I’m able to move the music to my iPods no problem. Hopefully that helps you.
Switched to youtube music for a long time , it comes with the perk of skipping ads here
Man!! This video dropped at the right time for me. In the last couple of weeks, I've picked up a cheap little mp3 player and downloaded some cds. That got me questioning paying for Spotify. Yeah its convinient but I've been listening to the same music most of the time, and most of the new music I've discovered has been through TH-cam videos and rarely through Spotify. Since then, I've been on the hunt for an iPod to modify its storage, and cds from artists I mostly listen to.
Awesome video, man. You bring up really good points. I didn't even know about how Spotify fucked over its customers with the car thing. That's really bad business practice.
Yah, as an artist with some heroes that have made it on Spotify and streaming in general, I've really tried to play the game and get a semblance of that traction on that platform. Then, one quarter after another, the goal post keep getting moved (e.g. No payment on 1000> streams, paywall for lyrics, higher paywall for ads, feeding our music to AI without our consent, shutting down artist's music for supposedly fake streams even thought they could easily go after the fake accounts themselves, etc.) Years of compounding frustration has made it to where I have bitter taste in my mouth for even using Spotify as a consumer. I'm trying to get in the habit of using Bandcamp as a consumer and pushing that more as an artist. Lots of people say, "Well it's still possible to make bank from Spotify because tons of other artists have." To which I say, "Yes, just like it's possible to still win a soccer game when the other team moves the goal when you kick. Eventually, you can learn to adjust to the unfair tactic the other team uses, but why would you want to do that to begin with?"
I never thought streaming numbers were impressive for exactly why you said. In the days of people buying physical media it was waaaay more impressive and I STILL hold those numbers as the main ones because you had to take yourself to a store and use your 10-20 dollars to buy the cd. Or order it online and wait for it to get to you.
Yes buying cds 💿 is the best way to listen to music and u get bonus tracks lyrics and booklets something Streaming will never offer
I bought Nao's Saturn CD a few days ago but i been slowly building up my cd and dvd collection cause I want to be able to listen to my songs and watching my shows whenever without worrying if they taking it off the streaming services
TH-cam to mp3 downloaders have been my best friend for a long time. I just keep all my music on my phone and I can listen to it whenever.
I think TH-cam music with TH-cam subscription is convenient
what ive done to combat this is essentially [legally acquire] all my music in my digital library. i also buy vinyl and cds so i can atleast support the artists still. and when i dont have the money to buy an artists physical music, ill just [legally acquire] spotify premium and just listen to it on there for the time being.
I was with Spotify for many years, changed to Apple Music a few years back and loved it. Now I use TH-cam premium and I love it
I actually don’t mind paying to stream music. The amount of music available at your fingertips for only $12 is priceless but my thing with Spotify (and why I switched to Apple Music in 2021), is that they kept making ass decisions. I don’t want to listen to podcasts, I don’t want to watch a tutorial to find the shuffle button, and I hate the way they act towards their artists and customers.
Had to be said, thanks for making this vid!
Thanks for watching
Ive been collecting some music to move away from Spotify and holly shit in a single week i’ve discovered so much music and new genres and the quality is so insanely good.
When i was little i used to be a music lover and loved just finding new music hadn’t realized i lost that with spotify.
Trust me just get a collection of music fuck all this algorithm bs. I also noticed the compression really makes me not like some songs that after listening to album versions are fucking beautiful.
Some things I do like about Spotify is the different playlists & the Blend feature
Going back to the 2000s and either buying music on CD or on iTunes. At least when I stop giving Apple or record companies money, I can keep what I have.
i could never get into spotify i much prefer apple music because spotify treats its music like fast food like why is it hard to find my downloaded albums
since they upped it to 10.99 I cancelled and decided to buy albums instead which is ironically cheaper and mine for life, I've been buying an album or two per month, been spending the same or close to it, and have my music for life, spotify can eat it
Currently I use Apple Music to stream new music and make playlists, and buy physical CDs from my top favorite artists. It’s a good middle ground that allows me to check out new music without going bankrupt, and still support my absolute favorite music and own it.
Gotta disagree with going back to MP3. It's good if you already had a collection going so adding songs would be no problem. But if I were to buy my longest running playlist of 606 songs for 50 cents each. I would be paying $302 out of pocket. I typically reserve buying physical for "in case the world ends I want to listen to this song still". Streaming is just more convenient, just not worth $12 IMO
Everyone’s got their reasons. But also to add just because they take it slower doesn’t mean it’s cheaper. 302 is 2 years of service. Depending on how long you’ve had streaming you’ve paid far over that. That’s why it’s a good business model for them. Then there’s the possibility of them taking music off the platform without any notice then all the money you gave them was for nothing
If the world ends and you die owning the copy still doesn't mean anything. You won't own it. I get your point.
However in the long run you are paying way more for streaming.
Since I've started Dj'ing I buy my tracks. But I don't buy everything. I only focus on what I love and really want to play.
I also make music for tv so I understand the value of music creation and paying artist.
$303, and I'd recommend replacing MP3 with Flac, will last as long as electronic devices.
you've already payed the 300 in renting fees bub, If you havent, you will.
Thanks for this video, more people need to spread the awareness about how Spotify really works. They don't value their customers and act like saviors of smaller artists when in fact they're the exact opposite.
And still, people will pay for it. That's why they do it. I just cancelled my subscription, downloaded Apple Music, and left a terrible review. I have ZERO subscriptions today. These subscription companies DO NOT PAY their artists fairly and still have the gall to suck money out of people. Nah! I wish artists would just put their albums on their websites. We pay, download it and the money goes straight to their hands.
Props to you but there's no way I could get rid of my music and afford to buy them all I used apple music for years with tons of music and just moved to tidal this year and already have hundreds of different albums I listen too. I understand canceling if you don't listen to much music but it's not realistic for real music enthusiasts that are always listening and finding new albums to listen to
@AJR352 get youtube premium then. You can watch everything on youtube and get youtube music with the video subscription. Also, I don't spend that much on music anymore. I resort to youtube most of the time. TH-cam ads pay the artist a lot more.
Isn’t apple music 10.99 ??
@Texas_Holdin yes, cheaper than Spotify and sound is better too. But I use more TH-cam premium
Isn’t youtube premium nearly $20?
I've only ever used Spotify to track down a Halloween song from my childhood, so I'm enjoying the drama knowing I have absolutely no stake in it
14:02 I still use MP3 players and still play MP3/MP4, and have been for 25 years.
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I listen to spotify A LOT so i can deal with the price increase (for now), but i've also been slowly expanding my cd collection and looking into getting music players.
And i use my laptop to download the songs from cds to put on a music player so it's a 2-in-1 solution.
and this is why I kept my movies and music on a home server. I bought it, I'm keeping it. No need to pay subscriptions endlessly.
I've been building a CD collection and using a Sony Walkman (A306). A specific reason that got me to do this, my favorite artist, deadmau5, had some music get taken down from Spotify due to copyright issues. I can only listen to those songs on the CD. Thankfully, he's gotten some of the songs back on Spotify, but having the CD is true ownership and guarantees i can listen to any song forever rather than renting the right to listen
As an artist who will always remain at the bottom of the pile, I discarded any notions of profiting off my work a long time ago.
I make music for personal accomplishment, memorable, and sentimental reasons. I may only get a few listeners here and there, but I wholly appreciate every single one of them. :)
Besides the raise prices, i like Spotify idk why everybody hates them so much. Ill die on the hill that its better than Soundcloud and apple music. Ima be honest idc how they treat us i just care about listening to my music.
Ay there’s room for everyone here!
The reason I couldn’t even jump on board with Spotify was that it couldn’t let me upload my existing collection. Apple Music at least lets me do that.
SO GLAD I've been using Tidal for over a year now. Hell, it dropped from $20 to $11 for everything, albeit, with legal/business changes for that, but still pays more than Spotify.
We are buying Tapes Vinyl and iPods for now on i put a CD Stereo replacing all digital stereo on our cars cuz im fed up with Shitify
I've had Tidal for 9 years and would highly recommend it. I was originally attracted to it due to the higher streaming quality than its competitors, the inclusion of music videos, and that it was created by a host of artists including Jay-Z, deadmau5, Kanye, and Daft Punk. I love knowing that it pays artists the most as well.
This is exactly why I download my music directly into my phone's library. No ads, no music I didn't ask for, no bs. And if for whatever reason the audio I downloaded has an issue, like too quiet or loud or unnecessary long intros or outros, I can still edit the audio files on a case to case basis
TH-cam Music was a clewr switch to me. TH-cam Premium and Music for one price is amazing. I could never go back to ads.
As things started changing what i would do is listen to artist on digital and if i liked all the songs, i would support and buy the cd..but now they make it harder to get them.
I would even support my fave Kpop artist and buy their cds from Korea and they give you a LOT for the money. I dont mind supporting in that way...all these companies are getting on my nerves raising the price
I quit spotify a year ago when they increased the price. Been living off of CDs since and I couldn't be happier.
For modern smaller artists I have youtube for now, though I am looking for alternatives.
Rather than paying for a streaming service, i buy a copy of the media directly.
MP3 players were super susceptible to piracy problems, but supporting the artist directly is a great idea, I try to “super thanks” on TH-cam at least once a month, problem is, people just don’t do it. They even feel ripped off when they try it out. If you could get people to do it or pay for something like a cd or a t shirt of their local artist they want to support that would be dope, but other than bringing attention to the matter we haven’t really changed anything/have not added more incentives to do this
I think p2p is great for consumers and media preservation, actually. Last year I actually revived my old iPod touch 4 to carry music on the go. iTunes used to also be a great centralized digital copy distributor that actually paid musicians, but it got discontinued in favor of apple music. So finding where to buy music legit is becoming more and more obscure and decentralized.
the “no pay-outs under 1000 plays” rule is disturbing news to me. I’m a very small artist, i don’t release a lot or very frequently, but now i’m learning spotify is claiming 100% of the streams i’ve made? how am I supposed to grow? afford new equipment? barrier for entry has never been higher. this is getting ridiculous
I've never used Spotify before...
As a computer repairman, people have always
Just given me copies of the music collection
When I fixed their computers.
I never understood how we had ipods with 1000s of songs and dropped all that for streaming. I never switched. I kept buying CDs and ripping to my itunes. I have 6000+ songs on my ipod and I love it. I curated a giant Library, im not abandoning that to pay $10/month for the privilege to stream that same library.
Every day I receive an ad of a small artist on the top of my yt feed. TH-cam recommendations are awesome for small artists. Theres even youtubecore playlists because of that.
One thing i liked about spotify was the lyrics...they have limited lyrics a month now💀
I know, it makes me hurl. Like they really are scraping in the ground trying to dig up every last cent.