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I sometimes get nostalgic and romanticize the old days of downloading mp3s and manually labelling metadata (trying to identify genres was a lot of fun), but man did device syncing get tedious. Spotify just makes discovering/listening to music so dang easy - perhaps too easy, which I get is the point of the article. Overall I relate to it a lot.

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Have you tried https://www.funkwhale.audio/?

It can be used effectively as a "private spotify". Labeling is a solved problem thanks to https://picard.musicbrainz.org/, and the fact that a lot of the music you buy these days comes pre-labeled already.

You then have a web-app (and/or a mobile app, if that's your thing) where you can stream music as you would with Spotify.

You can even build yourself a little music-sharing commune with friends, where you all upload the albums you buy and accumulate a nice collection of diverse tunes.

You still need to buy, upload and – the horror! – choose what you want to listen to each time, but perhaps it fills your other convenience needs.

I've been going backward lately, sick of always hoping from the new hip stuff to the newest through streaming and set up a navidrome server on a rasp. Give it all my mp3s to eat and it was such a joy to discover them again. I now listen to my music through supersonic on Linux/macos and Play:sub on ios while connected at home through vpn. Give it a try, nice refreshing project and a great ride into memory lane

A system where musicians are not adequately compensated will always be more attractive to the listener.

I don't think pirating mp3s is more attractive to the listener than Spotify.

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