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Spotify Soars to 320 Million Listeners, with 144 Million Paid Members

posted by martyb on Friday October 30 2020, @10:09AM   
from the easy-listening dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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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• It's called Fair, i say Fair use, son It's called Fair, i say Fair use, son (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2020, @02:22PM (4 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2020, @02:22PM (#1070846)

  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....

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• Re:It's called Fair, i say Fair use, son Re:It's called Fair, i say Fair use, son (Score: 5, Interesting) by FatPhil on Friday October 30 2020, @03:35PM (3 children)

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Friday October 30 2020, @03:35PM (#1070882) Homepage

  Absolutely - after losing tons of ripped audio to a HD crash a decade or so back (yup, no backups, the CDs are the backups), I decided that there was no point in me going through the effort, and just grabbed replacements from torrent sites, etc.
  
  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.)

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  • Re:It's called Fair, i say Fair use, son Re:It's called Fair, i say Fair use, son (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday October 31 2020, @10:14PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday October 31 2020, @10:14PM (#1071428) Homepage Journal

    Most of the bands I dig are either broken up, retired, or dead.

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    • Re:It's called Fair, i say Fair use, son Re:It's called Fair, i say Fair use, son (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday November 02 2020, @04:53PM (1 child)

      by Freeman (732) on Monday November 02 2020, @04:53PM (#1072013) Journal

      Essentially all the same thing, except, two of those are reversible.

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      • Re:It's called Fair, i say Fair use, son (Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 03 2020, @04:03PM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday November 03 2020, @04:03PM (#1072449) Homepage Journal

        All three are. Evidence: Keith Richards.

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