As of today, I am no longer subscribed to any streaming music platforms. I dropped Spotify last year, and today I dropped Tidal.
I have an awesome and growing vinyl collection. I ripped all my CDs and have my entire digital music library on both my iPod and Plex.
I'm content with this decision. In fact I'm EXCITED about it, because I'll be spending more time enjoying and loving the heaps of music I already own.
As for discovery? Recommendations, Bandcamp, and good old fashioned music blogs.
@killyourfm Good 4 U! I'm having a back & forth w/some guy insisting I use the free tier ad supported Spotify to support artists & not P2P. I donated all my CDs & Tapes to Amer Vietnam Vets & a Women's shelter. I explained "if it is free, you are the product". He can't handle that. Delete all cookies, telemetry, tracking beacons, etc. Use Firefox w/privacy containers, DD Go, Metager, etc..
@happycoyote12 I’d like to politely push back on one thing, as someone who works at an open source project. Telemetry is VERY important for developers to make data-driven decisions about the product, and improve it. SOME telemetry is bad, yes. But the kind most open source projects use is very important to the software’s development.
@killyourfm Hmm, v good chance I know very little about telemetry. Just know MS, Google, FB, etc. want to pin point locations further ID users, sell to potential marketers, etc. I don't need weather on my PC. I stop my "smart" TV from connecting to my Wi-Fi. Always used VPN 4 years. Block & delete cookies, hx, etc. Win 95, 95, 7 easy to clear cookie folder, id & block telemetry updates. Maybe more specific info may soften my position?
@killyourfm PS sounds like you might know your way around inner workings of coding? Any easy, simple, program or script to fix ERROR CODE: 0xc0000428? Much appreciate that.
@happycoyote12 That looks like a Windows error, so I won’t be of any help, sorry.
@killyourfm Yes, it is a Win 10 error, but thanks for your reply. I believe it has to do with a missing or corrupted boot manager preventing PC to boot into Windows. Oh well.