• Gerowen@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Buy and store your own music. HDTracks and 7Digital both sell high quality DRM free downloads, or you can just swing by your local Walmart or Dollar Store and grab some CDs to rip.

    Or you could go sailing, that’s always an option…

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        2 months ago

        That I don’t know. I mean you could always just use something to record the sound played by your PC, but at that point A) You’re not getting as good of quality as you would from an actual download of the source material and you’d have to manually assign metadata, make sure no notifications or other sounds played, make sure your recording settings were optimum, etc. It’s easier, right now at least, to just buy what you want on CD or from a store that sells digital downloads legitimately.

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      2 months ago

      As much as I’d like to do that, I have listened to over 7000 artists on Spotify.
      I simply don’t have the time (or money) to look those up individually.
      So I can either choose to have worse experience, or stick with Spotify for now.

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        2 months ago

        There is a cost to convenience ratio. Each individual has to decide based on their own ethics and preferences whether they’re willing to sacrifice their own personal experience for the right of ownership. I personally chose to cancel my Spotify subscription some time ago and start buying digital downloads and CDs again.