lapisnev

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Things that make you go 🤌. Weird computer stuff. Artist and general creative type. Occasionally funny. Gentoo on main. I play rhythm games!

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jkap
@jkap

take that might get me yelled at but i feel it strongly:

piracy is better than spotify for musicians , because with piracy no one is operating under the illusion/lie that Musicians Are Financially Supported By It


Webster
@Webster

additionally anyone who has not tried organizing the metadata in a personal library is missing out on one of the most zen and satisfying things you can do on a computer


micolithe
@micolithe

Building a series of Python scripts and rsync shell scripts to manage my mp3 collection gives me life in a way that I find a little concerning


lapisnev
@lapisnev

I just run everything through Musicbrainz Picard and take what it gives me, it's more important to me that everything is consistent and reasonably-completely tagged than to use custom tools to get any particular format. (Also I don't have to maintain custom tools.)

When I was a kid I accidentally 8.3 all of my filenames and I renamed those by hand because I couldn't find good free music library tools for Windows and wasn't yet running Linux XD


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in reply to @jkap's post:

I don't have data but i suspect that the number of people that pirate an album then go back and buy it directly from the artist or donate to their ko-fi or patreon to pay them for the album they liked is higher (both in total numbers and as a proportion) than the people who stream the same album on spotify and do the same.

I've heard a lot of people describe using Spotify as a discovery tool and then turning around and buying albums elsewhere if they really like something, but then I know there's probably a thousand times as many people that don't talk about how they use Spotify and just listen without actively supporting anyone...

things I like to do: going on my favorite artists' bandcamp or booth page and just paying them for their albums

things I wish I had the money to do: just fucking fly over to Comiket or equivalent convention, and hand them the cash directly because they will keep 100% of it and I'd get a physical album out of it

piracy was the single best way for me to discover artists, and as soon as I have the money to do it I try to buy their later releases. now i'm privileged enough to say that even if an album is name-your-price i will still try and drop cash on an album.

if that's not an argument in favor of name-your-price being literally better than whatever the fuck streaming was supposed to do, i don't know what is

you are speaking to an audience of anti-saas folks lol; I would gladly Just Buy Movies if they were sold as drm-free downloads like the pirates offer, and I'll gladly put my money where my mouth is for music.