Glad you’re enjoying it, that’s awesome. I used it a decade and more ago, but Spotify never worked out for me for a few reasons:
I discovered hi-fi music, have multiple good setups and for years Spotify was lower quality. It took them close to a decade to do FLAC quality.
I listen to a large variety of stuff from multiple countries, and Spotify would often lose rights to tracks I liked. At one point something like 10-15% of the music on my list disappeared.
I prefer to own my music in high quality, have bought a ton of albums and have around 1.2 TB of FLAC on my NAS.
I don’t like how artists get completely screwed on pay by Spotify.
My home setup has multiple budget hi-fi setups with passive speakers and mini-amps, and a 5.1 system in my living room. I’ve got a mini-PC server that runs Lyrion with Bliss mix plugin, Plex (for PlexAmp), and AssetUPnP. I still have Qobuz for streaming and discovery (and it integrates in Lyrion to mix with my local collection), but prefer local music overall.
Spotify has 280m paid users, out of 780m monthly users. Roughly 26 times better conversion than OpenAI
https://investors.spotify.com/financials/default.aspx#quarterly-results
TIL. Holy shit, that’s wild.
tbf Spotify is easily the best subscription I’ve got, according to my wrapped I was listening to the equivalent of 82 days straight in the last year
Glad you’re enjoying it, that’s awesome. I used it a decade and more ago, but Spotify never worked out for me for a few reasons:
I discovered hi-fi music, have multiple good setups and for years Spotify was lower quality. It took them close to a decade to do FLAC quality.
I listen to a large variety of stuff from multiple countries, and Spotify would often lose rights to tracks I liked. At one point something like 10-15% of the music on my list disappeared.
I prefer to own my music in high quality, have bought a ton of albums and have around 1.2 TB of FLAC on my NAS.
I don’t like how artists get completely screwed on pay by Spotify.
My home setup has multiple budget hi-fi setups with passive speakers and mini-amps, and a 5.1 system in my living room. I’ve got a mini-PC server that runs Lyrion with Bliss mix plugin, Plex (for PlexAmp), and AssetUPnP. I still have Qobuz for streaming and discovery (and it integrates in Lyrion to mix with my local collection), but prefer local music overall.