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Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero' (www.techradar.com)
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[–] chordsphere1 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (16 children)

I just download to actually have the songs. No DRM, No Ads, No song getting removed from streaming service... I have 500+ songs downloaded in opus format and it only takes 2.5Gb with many of them being longer than 5 minutes. I don't know why people keep using these services while they keep saying they hate it because there are so many ads or why they keep paying for DRM (aka. not owning anything)...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Opus at max bitrate is only like 1/4th the size of FLAC. At that point, why not just store it in 10GB while keeping the full quality?

[–] chordsphere1 4 points 5 months ago

That definitely makes sense, maybe I should do that... thanks

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