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weird, I still love pirating music.

Hard to argue against it when you get memory holed by playlist entry removals by a cloud service. Much easier living having everything at `.config/mpd/playlists` with git history.

You couldnt be serious

I'm very serious. It's not a simple matter to get any sort of exportable data from these cloud services, and they won't bother to notify you that media that was on your playlist or in your library has been removed. I gave Apple Music a try for about a year. and even that relatively small migration was hellish.

I have an easy time managing a playlist through the many available audio player frontends writing to an .m3u which is itself usable as a file path list in scripts to copy the music from my library to an external device.

no one gonna delete your playlist, stop making shit up

YouTube has deleted many videos from many of my playlists.

Yes because youtube has a rule

You cant uploading porn or isis video on youtube, it would be insta deleted

or do you think no rule is a good thing ?????

Why would those be your two examples when there are numerous more realistic reasons why YouTube would take down a video?

and no one those reason exist because its about YOU

it always about LAW

> no one deletes things from playlists

> Actually they do delete it and that's good

Pick one

so your playlist is videos blacklisted from youtube ????

its not gotcha what you think it is

And Sony would never remove movies from your account

so we comparing license to physical now ????

There's no physical media here anywhere (necessarily). This is comparing your computer (music on your PC that you purchase beforehand and do whatever you want with) to someone else's computer (cloud streaming that requires the platform to pay a license and get permission, that could one day be taken away without notice).

Yes because that just how license works you know

Still very much alive! Just not as popular with the advent of $10/mo all-you-can-eat streaming services.

This. I do use Spotify, but this has nothing to do with my local music collection. Admittedly, mostly pirated.

I don't use Spotify, but I would consider it if I could download maybe 1 or 2 mp3 per month for offline use.

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