I want everything to be political all the time…so that we can act like high schoolers and constant one up each other by virtue signaling and ideological purity testing…while simultaneously engaging in shitty behavior that makes everyone hypocritical sellouts.
Ghey.
No thxs.
Racial rhetoric…from political news
Shut the fuck up.
I don’t care.
Just fucking be ethical to each other. It’s not that hard.
Reading through these posts and saw this; you really don’t know how popular the acapella from this song is in the whippersnapper bass music community do you? (With love)
Infact, here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BeDz2LTbmic
i’d expect nothing less
so hopeful for the future now! 
also I love @eliminateHQ. i aspire to make videos as good as his
@wayne I forgot to tell you that this fixed itself a few weeks back! I noticed it when I was.working on my music sub.
Both factions of the government are deliberately goading normal civilians into conflict on their behalf so that a faction can win or preserve their power….
Whack
Spotify is seriously forcing low-quality music videos on me suddenly in place of tracks, eroding playlists and albums galore. I found a workaround for now (offline mode, lol), but I guess the enshitifcation has begun. I didn’t really mind the AI bullshit because discovering new bands is kind of a lost cause in today’s world anyway, but let me listen to some goddamn Helloween without the stupid music videos for fuck’s sake.
Time to scour eBay for those secondhand CDs, I guess. The one thing I thought was actually good in life finally failed after using it for nearly 20 years. I don’t like this new trend; I’m trying to figure out a single upside to this, but I really can’t. I genuinely don’t have a music collection anymore and I guess that’s my fault 
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Seems like people are being affected by this in small batches, too, like they just decided one day to start fucking with some people to see how pissed off they get, probably so they can roll it back or roll it out without everyone losing their mind at the same time. I really like this adaptive beta I didn’t know I was a part of, especially when I have all of the visual features firmly off.
great word
btw by “low quality music videos” are you talking about the canvases (8 second loops) that go with the tracks?
No, this overrides the track with a full music video replacement, and if you don’t have the dock out, it plays as a thumbnail. The volume is substantially different every time, if you have lossless or even decent-quality streams going you can hear the immediate drop in quality, and from reports online, any dialogue / delay / skits in the music videos are all there. There’s absolutely no option to shut it off, and there’s no way to find the normal track since they’re all overridden with ‘music video’ editions.
I don’t know how I got so ‘lucky’, but at least I found a few other people who have been shat on like this starting in December of last year up until a few hours ago. I love this new era of gaslighting / weird bullshit that only seems to affect select users.
The dialogue from Windowlicker isn’t actually there, but the car crash and all of that is. This is so goddamn retarded. It’s also kind of weird to consider there are people in my life who, I’d play a track like this around, but wouldn’t necessarily want the video to fire up for like 5 different reasons. But here at Spotify, we dictate what you get to experience™
yeah that pisses me off the most
I missed this the first time around, lol. Are they as inflated on there as everything else? Sometimes it seems like Goodwill is the best bet for random cassette finds, especially those ambient / non-music goodies, but I haven’t checked out eBay for music / tapes in a long ass time
Wow, that whole setup sounds awful. I’m with you that the ‘forced’ beta’ shit is miserable - youtube and reddit come to mind. What’s worse is when that thing you hate becomes canon, set in stone and no way to opt out.
There probably isn’t a direct benefit for the user. If I had to guess, I’d bet that they’re trying to recover traffic from youtube. God forbid you leave a site and go elsewhere. If the advertisers find out there might be a shareholder riot.
I’ve been really happy self-hosting my music. It doesn’t solve finding new artists but it’s pretty easy to get a Spotify-like experience and tailor it to your preferences. It does require actually having the music on hand, so I guess you’d need those CD’s first 
man if you really want to regress into old school this is definitely the biz right here. fuck buying them online, go old school and shop them at thrift, garage sales, ask your friends for their collection they want to get rid of anyway, and used record shops i find the most great stuff. sacramento has an amazing few record stores that have a dank little tape shelf somewhere in the back. gold mine!
as for Goodwill YES. i’ll buy 10 albums (random – about 20-30% are cool finds in my opinion) for $10 while hipster DJs are over in the front aisles flipping through new $50 vinyls.
audio quality is not guaranteed, neither is finding your favorite new album that just came out, and some tapes are so battered they rip the second you press play. and tape decks need maintenance. or you learn how to do it (i suggest the latter). but when did a little bit of degradation of audio quality due ever kill anyone haha. and re-attaching your split tape ends builds character! haha.
besides, i like my radio station with a little bit of fuzz.
this is where i’m at, this is basically where spotify and algorithms drove me because of the need to feel in touch with music again, literally and figuratively. yes i still stream music all the time, but when i’m doing all of the above, there’s something much more tactile about it.
never thought i’d turn into a tape dork but here i am. i was missing something in music and i’m rediscovering it through old physical media (cassette tapes, primarily). it is possibly a biological response to the impending singularity and eventual convergence…
I’m still on Spotify. 
I migrated all of my playlists to youtube music 99% and then was basically displeased with the youtube player’s overall quality. in the end it all felt like trading the baby for bathwater which ever direction i went. that’s ultimately what led to me “regressing” to tapes, which is why Tape Loops started so… idk…. your mindstate you’re in with this shit is relatable.
i straight up just got sick of a fucking app telling me what to listen to and never fully being as good at discovering music as i am, no matter how long i’ve taught it what i like to listen to. now when i stream on it, it’s much more intentional. no longer curating playlists and all that shit.
They must’ve heard me bitching, because it randomly stopped. Thankfully I was able to show my wife to prove I wasn’t losing my goddamn mind (while also simultaneously losing my mind, since hers was never doing it in the first place), and then it just decided to play the tracks like normal.
I guess this is still a good heads-up that listening to tracks like normal (or even lossless, although I care much less about that one) might end up being an extra charge one day, or not even an option at all. Everything changes rapidly enough that it starts to feel a little volatile sometimes, especially when most bands aren’t even releasing physical media anymore. It’s not hard to envision how much could stand to be lost if a few corporations wanted it to go down the drain, or if they started selecting which artists are valuable enough to host, etc.
Seeing all of my old CDRs covered in disc rot (most of it being music I worked on 20+ years ago that I’ll never hear again, although I’ve never been good about backing shit up) was kind of a strange one, too, but I didn’t really take the time to process it due to life events (I had to get rid of pretty much all of my shit, for good reason, but it hasn’t hit me yet); the impermanence is everywhere if you look hard enough, I guess. It’s probably better to accept it than to try and preserve everything, since every medium eventually fails.
Although, Goodwill tapes still functioning in any capacity is beyond me. That sounds like the true miracle in all of this, but the time spent working on tapedecks might outweigh the benefits of actually being able to listen to them 
yeah another things it’s helped me with is getting me to slow tf down and not life swoop me up in this rapid emotional rollercoaster game, at least not all the time
Man, this is such a mindfuck, but I think it’s spot on. Back in the day, if you had music it by definition was on media, even if it was a homemade tape or CD you bought from a local band. Now sometimes even the ‘master work’ only exists in the cloud. Take that a step further, and sometimes you can’t even buy a copy; it only exists on streaming websites, and then you’re into “that company ditched that artist and now I can’t listen to it anywhere” territory. That’s really scary.
It’s also the reason I really, really appreciate that Bandcamp exists. Whatever small issues I might have with the platform, it feels more like buying a demo tape from the bass player at a VFW hall than anything else on the internet - I hand you some cash, you hand me a product I can take home with me. It’s batshit insane that that somehow feels ‘special’ in this day and age, but here we are.
Lack of thick butts.
Theory is way more interesting than doing the actual work…but the work pays off once you master what you are doing..
Don’t get revel too much in theory…because the beauty of the work will fade.
I’m not reading the Epstein files.
I know of some the conspiracy theories have been confirmed by the release of these files.
There is no amount of mental bleach to recover from the mental trauma induced just by reading the files.
I’ve already seen crap on the internet that I didn’t want to see. That is all.
