Post #2764265

2025-12-03 20:48 UTC

@hazelnoot@void.lgbt @mawr@plush.city Assuming £13 p/m for subscription, after 10 years you’d have spend £1.5k. After those 10 years you’re left with nothing, you need to keep paying for subscription to listen to music. If instead you were to buy and rip CDs or buy digital downloads straight from musicians, assuming £10 per album, same amount would give you 150 albums. Assuming an average of 12 songs per album and 5 minutes per song, after spending £1.5k you’ll have 150 hours of music to listen to. An average person listens to music for 19 hours per week. That’s almost 8 weeks of not a single song repeating, or, to put it differently, hearing the same song not more than six times per year. Plus, after those 10 years you don’t have to spend a single penny and are still left with 150 albums / 150 hours of music that you own. You can also buy CDs in charity shops where one CD costs around £1, which will multiply my calculations x10. Streaming is infinitely more expensive compared to buying. Not to mention all the points made in the initial post.

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@mawr@plush.city 2025-12-03 21:02

@RaffKarva@sunny.garden Hear hear!! I'm a strong supporter of owning the music you listen to by whatever means. I've been weaning myself from all streaming providers for a long while now and host my own library via Plex to stream to my mobile devices, which is an excellent solution, but a lot more fiddly than most users are willing to engage with. Going from physical media to something you can listen to on your phone has gotten more and more difficult as time has marched forward- on purpose, I suspect.

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@raphaelmorgan@disabled.social 2025-12-03 22:02

@RaffKarva@sunny.garden @hazelnoot@void.lgbt @mawr@plush.city additionally: after x years of Spotify subscription, pretty much every penny you've paid into it goes to an evil corporation or one of the popular artists that already has a private jet. Spend the same amount on Bandcamp (or better, Mirlo or Faircamp) every month, and most of that money goes to the artists you're listening to. $15 is a drop in the bucket Spotify, but it makes a big difference to an impoverished artist.

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