With the cash shortfall this represents, they will be able to produce only 30 new albums this year :(
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only 30 new albums this year
wrap it up everyone, it's over
good on them, wish more musicians had the guts to follow suit. i've been so disgusted by how "default" spotify has become when it comes to distribution and music discovery...
King Gizz simply can't stop being the best currently active band what absolute lads
Anyone here use jellyfin for streaming music? Would be neat if we could have something like jellyfin or plex and use it to share music libraries and whatnot. Iβve used plex in the past, which you have to pay a monthly fee to stream to friends, but I havenβt tried jellyfin.
navidrome is better for music, cause it has corresponding apps to download stuff on phone, and web thingy is more music oriented 
(the only bad thingy - it doesn't handle fullrips with .cues gracefully, so have to manually split them up)
jellyfin also has many apps to steam music both on desktop or on mobile. finamp is available for mobile and is very good, supports downloads, transcoding, lyrics etc
i didn't like finamp design at the time, but what others? 
finamp is about to release their redesign which is really nice imo. on desktop feishin is a very good option. I used to use Gelli on Android, there are others I haven't looked in a while tbh
on desktop i can plug music bee on remote folder, so not that problematic tbh. gotta try redesign when they finish it 
Can you set up auto request/download with Navidrome? I was reading that Jellyfin + Symfomium works pretty well for music but I have little experience with either.
dunno about auto, probably varies app by app, amperfly which i use has sync whole library or manually select what you need (although, handling of uncached songs is very meh). symfomium works on subsonic according to splash page (which is what navidrome is broadcasting), so that's kinda irrelevant, it will work with it. This is exactly the reason i use it, it uses open standard (airsonic/subsonic) many people are implementing/using, while jellyfin just does jelly stuff.
While extremely great for movies/tv, where it's only game in town, handling of audiobooks, music, photos are done better elsewhere, i think. Although it does them well, just other programs do it nicer in some aspects.
what do y'all recommend to listen to music? I like the apps, don't particularly like spotify.
Edit - if anyone had the same question, I installed nuclear off github, it connects to online services to stream music on your devices. Working well so far! Not quite the same as Spotify in terms of functionality but it's decent
For real, pirate your music, store it, back it up. So often music gets taken down and then you can't get it anymore.
Otherwise, Bandcamp has streaming and if you do buy the music you get high quality files to download. They only take a 15% cut and give the rest to artists.
As far as pirating music goes, I recommend the P2P client Soulseek.
foobar2k and a big hard drive
and for mobile?
Foobar2000 has an andoid app that works a treat. You'd be hard pressed to find a mobile phone that doesnt have enough space to have a folder full of enough music to ocupy yourself.
foobar2k on wine running on an old-ass lenovo
in seriousness, I don't know what to recommend on mobile. I'm using gonemad media player classic from 10 years ago because my phone is old and I don't like exploring new apps
Poweramp is pretty good, although it's not free (maybe there's limited functionality for free, can't remember).
Soundcloud dj sets.
I always knew they were good lads
Finally these libs do something. I like them, but their actions clash with their lyrics imo
Fr. I'm a big fan of their music, an even bigger fan of their creative DIY ethos, but this is the band that put out Plastic Boogie while selling 1337 different collectible variants of plastic vinyl records
E: i don't think they do the ridiculous collectable shit anymore, and good on 'em for this, hope they continue growing
Exactly what I'm talking about
Might even say it don't make no sense at all
Jowan Safadi, a Palestinian musician, has left Spotify as well
I listened to Tk401 or whatever that album with the airplane on it over 60 times. I was in Australia and listened to it! I guess I should get the f off Spotify. How can I stream them? I'll sign up for another service
b741 rules
without going over the obvious pirating options, i'm guessing their stuff is still on Tidal and probably at much better file quality for less money? (Tidal streams 24bit flacs if the album supports)
(this is before looking into any ethical concerns over tidal fyi, I haven't looked into them at all other than knowing it's owned by Square and therefore probably also is linked to some shady cappie bullshit)
I'm about to try and get my workplace off spotify and onto tidal, it looks simple enough
Thank you both I shall investigate tidal immediately
Tidal not available in Japan
I installed nuclear to get off Spotify. It seems to work fine so far on my computer, it plays the songs off YouTube without connecting you directly, so it does require that the songs are on YouTube, but I think it finds any upload it can not necessarily an official one
woe betide spotify i am always saying this
jamie stewart's interview with melonboy was quite good.