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Spotify soars to 320 million listeners, with 144 million paid members:
Spotify soared past a worldwide listener milestone as the number of people using the service climbed 29% to 320 million in the third quarter, the music streaming service said Thursday. Excluding anyone who listens free with advertising, Spotify's paid members also rose 27% to 144 million, the company said.
The latest figures further cement Spotify as the world's biggest subscription music service.
How does it compare to p2p these days?
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Life is not for everyone.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Friday October 30 2020, @12:40PM (10 children)
Or... How about buying and owning over 1000 CDs over the last few decades and ripping them onto your NAS?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2020, @02:22PM (4 children)
If you own the CD's, it's legal (in Canada, at least...last i heard) to download from Piratebay etc and MUCH quicker than ripping.
I started ripping Battlestar Galactica from DVD then realized: "Shit, what a waste of time!". Downloaded the series in noooo time at all.
Posting anonymously because i know shit about the law as it stands now, in this ever changing, ever threatening world we live in, mumble grumble hassa fracking rickin rackin....
(Score: 5, Interesting) by FatPhil on Friday October 30 2020, @03:35PM (3 children)
This has had the terrible side effect of me having to grab whole discographies from minority artists when I only wanted one album, then then buying several more albums when I realised I liked their whole oeuvre, or at least wide periods of it.
Public service announcement: When local live venues re-open - support the bands that play there, and from the bands you like - *buy merch*. (And buy lots of beer at the venue, as the venue needs supporting too.)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday October 31 2020, @10:14PM (2 children)
Most of the bands I dig are either broken up, retired, or dead.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday November 02 2020, @04:53PM (1 child)
Essentially all the same thing, except, two of those are reversible.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 03 2020, @04:03PM
All three are. Evidence: Keith Richards.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday October 30 2020, @03:06PM (2 children)
Doesn't youtube-dl depend on having ffmpeg?
I'm asking, uh, for a friend. Yeah, that's it! For a friend.
I seem to see youtube-dl using ffmpeg on
mythe friend's Pixelbook (chrome os) with Linux.I don't seem to remember the name of the friend.
Why is it that when I hold a stick, everyone begins to look like a pinata?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday October 30 2020, @03:27PM (1 child)
However, if all you want is mid/low-res pre-muxed content (usually 720p, so decent enough for most things), then no muxing is needed, and so ffmpeg is required. Likewise, if all you want is the audio stream, it will happily download that on its own, and without any muxing task to do, no ffmpeg is needed.
A lighter-weight alternative to youtube-dl is Jamie Zawinski's 'youtubedown', which can be fetched from jwz.org. However, that's not quite as up-to-date as youtube-dl, and sometimes doesn't cope. (However, both are always playing catchup with google's retarded obfuscation dipshittery, you might not notice that jwz's slower to update if you're lucky.)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday October 30 2020, @03:56PM
Thanks! I'll pass that on to my friend.
I did notice that ffmpeg is being used to re-mux.
Why is it that when I hold a stick, everyone begins to look like a pinata?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 30 2020, @06:53PM (1 child)
Wife has Spotify so I use that to check out new stuff. Also, KEXP out of Seattle streams online for free and is awesome for finding new music! [kexp.org] (free plug I guess)
New stuff I like I buy as MP3s and store on a 120 gb sd card on my phone. I do a lot of camping and sailing and stuff out in the mountains so I like local storage in addition to ownership.
Old stuff from dead people I'll usually "pirate" their whole discography when it's available. I like a lot of blues and jazz and I'm not paying hundreds of dollars to get everything from an artist.
When I'm buying stuff I can usually find it on the Amazon MP3 store which they don't make very obvious that it even exists. It's there though and it works pretty good if you need to deal with actual Satan and all.
How is the audio quality on stuff ripped from YouTube? Seems like it would be crappy...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2020, @12:39PM
It depends on the particular upload. "Official" stuff is usually high quality.