• seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Nicklin’s colleague and Die Gute Fabrik co-founder Douglas Wilson added that it was “infuriating to watch large corporations gut one of the most valuable communities/services on the internet.”

    We’ve been here before. Remember mp3.com? For those who don’t, imagine if somebody bought Bandcamp and then deleted all of the music.

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      That is exactly what they are going to do. Mark my words: bandcamp will be a subscription service soon, and likely will be a revenue generating click-through to Spotify or itunes or similar.

      The big labels can’t STAND that we can get good music, but/own it outright, listen to it at our leisure without commercials, and share it with friend.

      I encourage everyone to checkout Funkwhale. Specifically the instance I use, because I want access to your music lol.

      Funk.gravitywell.xyz (for info, sign up)

      Or

      https://funk.gravitywell.xyz/library (listen to others’ public libraries)

      There’s also an android app, albeit a little buggy.

      Here’s my library - https://funk.gravitywell.xyz/federation/music/libraries/9788b698-e8f1-44ac-b2d3-30501fa4ccfe

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        I remember subscribing to eMusic for some number of song downloads a month and downloading stuff from artists I’d never heard of to use up my downloads at the end of the month. All MP3s, still got them and still listen to them once in a while.

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          Definitely. I found so many unknown artists from their human-curated recommendations that you just won’t find on the streaming services anymore. I rely on KEXP for new music now, which is great, but just kinda…slower I guess.