So I paid for Spotify premium

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Things I like

  1. Has most of the the songs I like, rough estimate well over 95%
  2. Dirt cheap, 369 per month. That’s around 12 bob a day.
  3. Quality is quite okay even compared to the flac collection I have. Maybe my ageing ears aren’t able to distinguish lossless music from lossy music. Or maybe my gear isn’t high fidelity enough? No idea
  4. (Most importantly) The audio volume is constant. This is what will keep me paying. With my downloaded music some tracks are too loud and others too low volume. It’s good just to enjoy the music and not keep adjusting the volume knob.
  5. No ads,no interruptions

So far I haven’t come across anything I dislike.
This is my first foray into streaming media so I still prefer to have my own music on local storage first … Then I replicate that playlist on Spotify. Finished doing that with my entire country/blues music collection, next up is the gospel collection

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Spotify is goat

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Nah, artists get nada is why i use the mod.

Would rather tip the ones i really like on their linked paypal.

I just used spotube and saw i’d have to pay 8k per year by the rate i usually go

Anywhoo, Camel and others I like have some shit missing on spotify. Spotify is not the best

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I tried the free version of Spotify and it had lots of good stuff missing plus their recommendation algo is garbage—I doubt they’d be so lame as to omit them for non-paying users—I’m the songs aren’t there altogether. Now, I can’t tell you Miles Davis from John Coltrane but reading this Substack by one of the industry’s top critics only reinforced my belief they’re too profit-driven to be any good.

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Spotify iko na spatial audio?

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I really don’t get how people pay for that but if you enjoy it well then good for you.

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Hio labda kwa wazito akina apple music

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I love Spotify. Used to pay for it but then I realized I can just use uBlock to get rid of the annoying ads.

It also meant I had to give up the desktop app, but it doesn’t matter now because they’ve rewritten it with a web stack, and some of the benefits of the old app are gone. It was just much better; one of the features I miss most is being able to access a recent history of my last played tracks.

I’m reconsidering getting it for music videos since they were recently introduced. I enjoy listening to music alongside the visuals, but YT has inferior audio quality compared to Spotify.

Are the videos finally available for our region?

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we die pirates… https://www.1337xxx.to/

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limited catalogue.

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youtube, adblock, idm

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I can’t see videos, just album art

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Good to know. I’ll hold off until they’re made available.

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For point number one, if you use normal stereo sets ama headphones, you won’t see the difference in Audio quality. Invest in a Hi-Fi system ama headphones above KES 70k kama Bose au Sony.

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I’m using a yamaha receiver. Not really ideal for high resolution music but it’s decent enough. The only way to upgrade is to a 2 channel stereo amp but then I’d lose out on the centre channel for movies unless I have a separate music set up…

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Natambua apple music pekee

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Update: videos now available

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Just hit 13k songs, all are highest quality possible

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@caneran nikona videos kwangu.

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