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Welcome to the era of only Spotify Plays matter - let's take a look at the underbelly of streaming scams affecting independent artists.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 137 points 1 week ago (33 children)

A long time ago, you could go to a special store and trade government paper for music disks and tape that you got to keep forever.

[–] cosmo@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (18 children)

When I discovered that it was possible to buy and download drm free lossless flac-files i went back to buying music again. Never looked back tbh.

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

honestly, most of my CDs have been used once: Put in a PC and ripped (to 96kbps MP3s, of course!)

[–] RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 1 points 6 days ago

Opus at that rate could be much better

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