How QUITTING Spotify Changed My Music Habits

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• ST

  @stevemuzak8526 · 2 years ago

  Once you cancel your subscription, you realize that you own NOTHING.

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• JO

  @joegolike · 2 years ago

  Cancelling all my subscriptions after losing my job a few months ago taught me the unexpected blessing of <b>not</b> having access to everything everywhere all at once. I’m more intentional about what I watch and listen to. It took me a couple months to detox, but now I didn’t think I’ll go back. Having all those streaming services trained me to constantly be looking for something new to entertain myself. I don’t miss that addiction.

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• KY

  @kyrilson71 · 2 years ago

  Interesting. &nbsp;My use of Spotify must be very different from most people. &nbsp; I listen to full albums and often will listen to the entire discography of artists over a few days. &nbsp;Helps me discover hidden gems and also see how a band’s sound evolves over time.

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• OL

  @oliverpolden · 11 months ago

  Here’s a tip: find your most listened artists and favourited tracks, then go buy them!

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• JO

  @jonnyduk3968 · 2 years ago

  I cancelled my Tidal during lockdown and started buying CD&apos;s again partly to ensure artists were remunerated more fairly. It&apos;s been great to leave the algorithms behind, I now discover new music via online music music magazines, such as the Quietus, YouTube music channels (Norman &nbsp;Maslov is a good one) friends recommendations and seeing acts live. I now listen to less but listen more deeply and value it more. Less is definitely more!

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• MA

  @MarioLopez-no2qg · 2 years ago

  INTENTIONALITY is 🔑. With music, books and LIFE! Love the content.

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• EV

  @EvHocks · 1 year ago

  Am realising that I&apos;ve found very few artists using spotify&apos;s algorithms over the years I tend to find music more often on youtube bc that&apos;s when I&apos;m actually browsing/youtube mixes have pretty good recommendations

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• WI

  @willm5032 · 2 years ago

  Also, as a musician- Spotify pays fractions of pennies to artists per stream. Whilst the CEO is a billionaire who continues to make money off artists. Very easy to go to bandcamp and buy records etc from artists direct.

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• AD

  @adamtrieseverything · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve recently begun this journey as well! I repaired an old iPod 6th gen, started buying all my music on Bandcamp or finding old records on the Internet Archive, and reliving old music I bought on iTunes in the 2000s. I haven&apos;t cancelled Spotify yet but I think it&apos;s time. It&apos;s hard to believe I&apos;ve this subscription service for over 10 years.

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• YG

  @YggdrasilMedia · 2 years ago

  I feel like I&apos;m the only person I know who still listens to albums. I find it helps me focus, really puts you in a zone or headspace the artist was in at the time. And the songs you want to hear most hit so much harder with a little bit of patience and anticipation.<br><br>A good tip I&apos;ve found for discovering new music is checking out other artists on a label&apos;s roster. Chances are they&apos;re in a similar vein and I&apos;ll often binge a bunch of albums when I find a label I like. A lot of them have YouTube channels too with full albums uploaded.

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• FL

  @fleurendcrow · 2 years ago

  I mostly use FM radio to find new music, when I hear a song I like on the radio, i&apos;ll write down some lyrics and search em to download on my mp3 player <br><br>On the mp3 player, I can only have songs on one playlist. So i can&apos;t put the same song in 2 playlists unless i want to have duplicate files so it limits how many i can make but it&apos;s fun: I just made one for different moods, sad, happy etc.. I like how my happy playlist stays happy and sad playlist stays sad, no algorithm mixing up moods.

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• MI

  @Mico605 · 2 years ago

  I don&apos;t have problem with Spotify, other than the fact YouTubes algorithm gives me 1000x better music and music recommendations and i don&apos;t even pay for it. So i no longer pay for Spotify either.

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