Oh wow your catalogue is that fringe is it? Ive only had to add a few entries and I consider my tastes very broad and pretty niche for a lot of it!

Lidarr is your friend, my friend

Thats correct, streaming is not the problem. Streaming is just a technology. The companies are the problem.

Record companies dont walk in to spotify HQ and say “give me this much for this artist”. Spotify has a very specific payment model that fucks over small artists.

There are also many labels made by artists that are great and really support their artists so your point doesnt really work.

None of this is even touching on how spotify fills its curated playlists with slop so it doesnt have to pay as much royalties or how the only way it can make more money and appease shareholders is by constantly squeezing the consumer and charging more like this article. They have nothing innovating to offer to justify their price hikes.

I love streaming, I think it is incredibly convenient and effective for listening to music. I do not love companies that take an amazing technology and exploit it to destroy an industry that is already struggling in the name of profit.

Support your favourite artists directly or switch to other less scummy streaming services is my opinion. Spotify is destined to fail anyway or at least mutate into a “top 40” only platform with how many artists are leaving.

You could argue it matters because spotify has impacted the music industry negatively as a whole. Why would I want people giving their money to a company like that to make the problem worse?

Regardless of whether I personally use the service or not, other people funding it contributes to the downfall of something I like just for a bit of convenience.

I wouldnt make the same argument for every other streaming service because they all have different levels of ethics they abide by but spotify… no good ethics I can see.

You must be streaming flac or something from your server then?

over a whole month of playing music for roughly 8 hours a day i have 10gb of data from symfonium with 320kbps ogg transcoding.

Either that or you might have music cached on spotify but not using the cache on symfonium?