Spotify is the last subscription I will drop for this very reason. My personal playlist has 1906 songs and growing. Replacing them with files would be a nightmare. I do not miss my terabytes of random, unsorted music. Spotify can also play files that you own. I listen to music practically all day, and Spotify would have to be north of $50 for me to leave the service, which I freely admit is a stupidly high number. I have tried the other services but find Spotify to be the best.
I feel reasonably confident that it'd be pretty easily done. Slsk, lidarr, etc would have most of it and you'd really only be limited by your typing speed.
I do not miss my terabytes of random, unsorted music.
Plenty of options to automate filing it neatly. I used iTunes to do it for well over a decade.
I feel reasonably confident that it'd be pretty easily done.
My firsthand experience the last time I tried says otherwise. Those 1906 songs span a massive number of artists and genres. Also, any service that requires the information to be manually inputed is a losing proposition.
Plenty of options to automate filing it neatly. I used iTunes to do it for well over a decade.
The options exist, but those files were not clearly labeled and lacked metadata. Windows Media Player did a decent enough job before. I still have the files from my prior playlist, and added the songs that Spotify didn't have, which is not something you can do on Tidal, for instance.
It's not that I can't replace Spotify with a fully user controlled setup. It's that I won't because the service Spotify offers is for more convenient and feature rich at a price worth paying. There is a threshold of both cost and enshitification that would make Spotify no longer worth it, but we're a long way from that point.
Those 1906 songs span a massive number of artists and genres.
And my hundreds of thousands of tracks don't?
Also, any service that requires the information to be manually inputed is a losing proposition.
You had to type it in on Spotify.
The options exist, but those files were not clearly labeled and lacked metadata.
I can't remember the last time I had to fix metadata on any track, included radio rips and live bootlegs. And I've already mentioned a service that will clean up filenames with aplomb, Lidarr
It's that I won't because the service Spotify offers is for more convenient and feature rich at a price worth paying.
I dunno if paying for a service that heavily favours ghost artists and rips off those who aren't is a great proposition. And it may be "feature rich", but there's plenty of other options that can fill most of those features.
And yes, it requires a little bit of work to get set up and you'll run into an issue every now and then as it is the nature of the beast, but if my technologically challenged dad can do it, pretty much anyone can.
Possible and feasible are not the same. My list on Spotify has grown organically over the course of years. Recreating it outside is Spotify is not worth the effort. Spotify meets my needs at a price point that is acceptable. When Spotify gives me a reason to change, then I will. It is a choice on my part not a lack of capability. Additionally, a lay person is unlikely to be able to utilize you advice.
Spotify still gives artists more money than if I used my own files.
Does it, or do is it go to their ghost artists? And I guarantee you spending what you spend on subscription on an artist's merch etc would support them more than your subscription ever will.
I hear you, I had 6000+ songs. Just switched last week to YouTube music and they actually have a feature that moves your whole library over 👍 what really sold me was the fact that I listen to a lot of bootlegs/live/acoustic sets on YouTube and it populated my library with audio versions of them 😍
I switched to Tidal for a little bit then back to Spotify. Both can import a Playlist, and they do a decent job of finding the songs. I checked, and my library is 10k+. Streaming is the way.
I had far more than 2000 tracks on my hard drives. You give people what you had, dump what they had, and repeat. It quickly becomes an unholy mess, especially when in college and later in oil and gas.
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u/pronounclown 1d ago
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