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Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news (www.gsmarena.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As apparently, this move is made to target audiobook listeners and podcast listeners, can I recommend https://audiobookshelf.org

And also https://f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I feel like piracy and moral superiority don't really belong together

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

You are clearly not aware of the windfall profits corporations are making, and that they are then passing exactly none of it on to the workers generating that profit

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the moral thing to do is pay a third party company $130 per year who then pays an artist $0.20 per billion streams of their work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I mean the moral thing is just to not buy the product if you have an issue with it.

I have no problem with piracy, but pretending you're some sort of hero for doing it is ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How is that the moral avenue? You want these artists to fade into obscurity because nobody can ever hear their music while also not earning any money?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Not saying Bandcamp are the good guys but at least you have an option. And today is Bandcamp Friday, when artists keep 100% of the sales!

We run our Navidrome server at home and listen to our music using clients such as Feishin and Tempo (Android).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

It is a moral imperative to pirate EA, Ubisoft and Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I always try to buy my music first, digital only though. I don't have space for CDs or the like. If the option is not available (not common), the tricorn goes on. And normally I would go through any loophole I can find to get it legally. But damn, the Japanese really don't like doing business with foreigners.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

What kind of japanese stuff do you listen to? I might be able to recommend a place

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But damn, the Japanese really don't like doing business with foreigners.

Truer words have never been spoken

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

When I was a teenager I would save my lunch money to order CDs from CD Japan

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

A popular myth, but a myth nonetheless.