Excuse the ignorance, what is the point of this service?

Not sure about this, as it is not developed for this purpose. You may take a look at zotero and make a folder/tag per magazine to group them.

I do not give them any money as I do not use their service in any form. However, there are a few reasons you may want to if you do use their services.

1. If you enjoy the service it is indeed in your interest that it is profitable and keeps on working.
2. You’re saving yourself on installing on your phone a cracked application which likely contains some malware.
3. If you dislike Spotify for what they do and how they behave, you’re better off not using the service altogether.

And I mean, they do offer you a way to listen to music for free anyway, they just have you listen to some advertisement. It is a fair exchange in my opinion. The pricing of their subscription is also fair in my opinion, it’s some 10-15€/month and you can listen to all the music you want all the time, that is about the price of a single disc. If you don’t like the advertisement and don’t want to pay to listen, I’d turn to Soulseek rather than trying to use their service for free.

I myself prefer to have my own music collection and to buy the music from musicians I like, but I do see the advantages of a service like Spotify and I feel it is pretty cool that they offer their huge catalogue for free to anyone in the world.

If you use Spotify, I’d pay for the subscription. If you don’t want to pay for the subscription, I would download the music so that you have it on your phone.

While I do agree in general, Open ai is not a public company. Valuation logics of private companies are quite different than stock market.

I guess if I were an artist I’d look at this and feel justified suing Spotify for 1 billion dollars for the lack of protection of my music.

Same, i have lossy compression; but I favour opus.

96kbps is quite good sounding compression. You may hear a difference with the original, but in most cases you’ll have to focus very hard to hear it. As far as I know what they archived was not MP3 compressed but rather opus or ogg.

Massive public financing coming from the government. Damn, I don’t know know how many Italian movies are turning a profit from sales - but I doubt it gets to 1%. Still, they keep making movies.

Ed is the standard editor

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