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Avoid subscription services. You may pay more short term, but you won't have to remember to cancel anything
This, the only monthly subscription I have is internet plan from my cellular provider (15GB for $5 at 10mbps). Zero regrets
Any cheaper showoffs are welcomed :)
PS: I don't get why people subscribe to music services. I mean, you could just download your favorites and listen locally...
Sure, I could, and would like to own my copies. It's just that would be a lot of work and money with the experience ultimately being worse.
They trick you to think it is (by screaming features at you that you soldemly need), but IMHO, it's not. I only have a couple of songs that I like, and shazam new songs that I will hear along the way.
I honestly think that shazam is the only proper feature that I just might pay subscription for. It's brilliant. It just works, every time!
I have a service that extracts my playback data.
I'm fairly confident I would not just discover 6700 different artists by word of mouth, searching, or shazam combined. It would take a lifetime.
Shazam identifies music that's playing- where is it playing from in the first place?
We seem to have different use cases.
Exactly. I want to discover new artists, and sometimes I accidentally discover old artists that I should have known about but sheltered, raised-on-small-town-Midwestern-radio old me never could.
Okay, let's say you're really into this feature.
With all the enshitifications global conglomerates are doing, how sure are you that the company will hold on to the promises they made?
I mean, this data is on their servers, right? (Even if it is stored locally, it's probably scrambled, like the local downloaded music, so that no one else can take advantage of it)
We all forget that these companies operate on a "for profit" basis and will always find ways to maximize it.
Why? Corporate overlords are greedy. Not that I'm against it. They just soldemly ignore the "imaginary line" to absurdity that should not be crossed.
After all, even google found a way to go around the "don't be evil" policy; right now, I get shoved a minimum of 6 ads, each video ๐ก
Spotify users, get ready for ads right before the chorus of your fav songs.