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Jan 16, 2025
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What’s the storage and battery life like? I have an old iPod and love using it but it doesn't have a sufficient amount of storage for all my music :(
claudianextdoor storage is excellent, I sprang for a refurbished iPod that holds about 60 GB of music. Battery life lasts a few days, depending on usage (and I keep mine on airplane mode).
Good for u!!!
I listen to NTS and shazam songs i like ~ then build playlists in youtubemusic.
i do miss my ipod tho ;(
thrashie Shazam is definitely how I’m finding music in the wild, besides asking people “what are we listening to”!
I’m spending the rest of this year prepping to leave spotify for good. I can’t stand the app anymore but I need to gather supplies like an old iPod and mod it to my liking. Been joking FB groups about modding and converting back to physical media and it’s so refreshing.
hoahoahottie do it do it!! I got my iPod on BackMarket for like… $100. And it has bluetooth connectivity, so i can hook up my wireless headphones. Feels great to take control of how and where I’m experiencing music.
love this for you!never been big on Spotify nor on music but I've been lately getting into shoegaze music which is new to me and I can hardly describe how looking for music makes me feel sooo good as if I am discovering lost pieces of myself .happy for you~
jianyingggg have a very good shoegaze rec: Ozean. They released one very perfect EP in 1993 then vanished. And i found them through a record store in my neighborhood (or i should say, my husband found them).
I love this for you! May your journey be filled with wondrous wonders, sick drum solos, and lyrics that have you questioning everything!
Lots of great artists also refuse to put their music on Spotify for various ethical and financial reasons so continuing to opt into them serving you tunes is kinda shutting yourself off from some incredible stuff you could be hearing if you looked for it ya know
thurston_less if Joni Mitchell and Neil Young can put their feet down about Spotify, so can I!
I also jumped ship. Now it’s Apple and YouTube music for me! I may even buy a Walkman again.
ladyfinesse do it! i have a portable cassette player I share with my husband in addition to my iPod. Feels so good to push play on a device.
Proudly have never used it. I’ve used flash drives, Bandcamp, cds (wish I still had a player in my car), YouTube (on Safari, with adblockers) and have been able to listen to everything I’ve ever wanted to. I like using YouTube suggestions to find new stuff, Bandcamp also constantly suggests things based on genres you like. Doing things like this also encourages listening to whole albums, which is a great thing imo.
i’m currently making lists of my favorite bands and subscribing to my fave podcasts patreons so i can cancel my spotify! i’m tired of giving my money to companies if i can help it
yagababa brava!! I just signed up for a bunch of band newsletters (so i don’t miss them coming to town!). And i have a big list of music i want to check out through the library and record stores. Let’s quit together 👯♀️
salad_valet between collecting cd’s and borrowing them from the library (bandcamp too!) it’s like why need anything else??
yagababa exactly. The material is all out there already. Plus i’m more likely to buy an album from the artist in bandcamp and see them in concert if i’m actively seeking them out and listening to them. Spotify gave me the illusion that i had unfettered access to artists for a low price, without compensating them fairly.
hollycookswithfriends yes! I have an old MacBook that I’m using to get MP3s from after listening to the album.
salad_valet you're using itunes I presume? it's been a while since I've done this but have been wanting to do the same thing
hollycookswithfriends yep! iTunes! it reminds me of being in high school / college, building playlists and burning CDs
oof i think about doing this every now and then but... i kinda like the algorithm, i like finding new music and i've actually discovered some great artists through it, and also downloading songs to the ipod is such a hassle >.<
lulee totally get it! I have found some good music through the algo in the past, including one of my now faves, The Dirty Projectors. Adding to the iPod was a big project I did slowly over the summer/fall, and now when I buy or borrow a CD, I have the habit of listening and then ripping to my harddrive. Slowly but surely, I’m building something I love that is extremely my taste.
lulee you might consider just switching apps, then? Tidal pays artists several times more per stream than Spotify does. the sound quality is way higher, too. the app isn’t perfect, but their playlists (personalized and staff curated) and their “tidal rising” new artist program has been a really good way to discover new music, for me.
i've slowly been losing respect for the platform but the final nail in the coffin was definitely when they fired a bunch of workers to replace them with AI... now we get odd kinds of slop fed to us, most notably AI artists and that soulless 2024 wrapped
physical media is always the best. it feels more personal that way :)
fourleaf I’m big into physical media too (i have a VHS collection!). i just got so tired of the interface changing, music disappearing, etc etc.
this is so fascinating to me! I typically search on websites/reddit recs on certain genres and their expanding subgenres. This usually leads me to small artists and if i really want to delve into the classics of a genre then I delve into those too. Spotify to me is more like a tracker and it’s so interesting for me to hear that it can be limiting to others!!
criatura yeah! I didn’t really use it to track what I liked. what happened to me is that, due in part to the constantly updating interface, i kept listening to the same small set of albums / artists on repeat, because they showed them to me at the top and made searching for what I’d built harder to find. AND (!!) the app started playing the same few songs at the end of my playlists and albums (one being “Kyoto” by Phoebe Bridgers).
