I already transferred to Qobuz, but feels weird that they threaten people leaving with losing their libraries.
This would suck for people who only wish to temporarily cancel.
I already transferred to Qobuz, but feels weird that they threaten people leaving with losing their libraries.
This would suck for people who only wish to temporarily cancel.
Your music?
Point me to the location on your drive where you are storing this data.
Sorry if that came off as harsh but there is a better way. Learning to self host a music server using online guides or dare i say it a llm is trivial these days.
You can stream your music free from any subscription with zero cost as long as you want to put in some work.
That’s something that I got easy. I don’t listen to a big range of bands /styles. Downloading it all and setting it up on Plex was quite easy and I’m very happy with it.
I was on Deezer before and can’t complain, though. Really liked their service
I’m curious what the point of streaming it is if it’s all files you have on a drive somewhere anyways. Why not just have all the music on your phone? I’ve got dozens of Gigs of music on my phone and that’s plenty.
If your phone can fit all your music then yes that is the way to go.
Its also what i have done for years, and i still have a local collection because availability is a priority.
But when you collect flacs and just your pink Floyd collection grows over 200gb you need a better solution.
A huge help was the fact that switching to linux ment i couldn’t sync my iphone with iTunes anymore, or i have to go back to windows for just that, really gave me the extra push to set navidrome up.
That’s why use Zotify. When I ditch my subscription, at least I’ll have all the songs I wanted.
No worries, I get it and understand it is not ‘my music’ but I can’t imagine that the database of songs I liked is much burden on their server. Either way, the point was the threathening messaging they use.
Its silly
Should instead encourage you to come back later by saying your playlists and such will be saved for whenever youre ready to come back
See this is what I don’t get, like I accept I may be outside the target market or whatever but surely it’s basic psychology that consumers react negatively to this type of “keep paying or loss it all” type shit. Your “no worries, it’ll all be here when you’re ready to resume the subscription” is so much more palatable aka likely to make money, I would have thought.
The visceral reaction to that message by the average person would be “wait, but I don’t want to lose it all!”
You’re right, it’s unhinged. And a lot of people I talk to about this stuff in real life unthinkingly respond along the lines of “You can’t really blame them, it’s good business practice.”
I can and do blame them. They don’t have to be that way, they made a decision and me hating them is not only my right, but an obvious conclusion. I’ll go a step further and hold a grudge against this corporation in the form of a personal boycott. If more people did that maybe they would design for people like us and not the ones willing to shrug off any slight and open their wallets wider.
Tech companies have zero respect towards their users and they are so self absorbed they don’t even realise it themselves how blatend it is. And more and more these kind of messages are going to be ai generated also.
You complying is the norm. Same thing with microsoft putting ads in your existing start menu and uploading your files to the cloud. The fact that people actually rely on their digital services to live is not a responsibility but a market advantage.