We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
Who’s fault is it that there’s no fair systems one could use (except maybe bandcamp)? Not mine at least, I don’t use Spotify at all. I would not sell my music there if I would be an artist.
Bandcamp is good. Bands still have websites and mailing lists too. There was never anything wrong with these but big tech wants to keep you in their walled garden and forget the TRUE internet still exists out there.
Also, record stores bro.
Actually I would just be FLACing my records for convenience, as I did with my whole (SA)CD/BR-Archive. And yes, I do like Bandcamp. It’s really nice to discover indie-artists noone knows (yet). If the bands do make decent money there, I dunno. Hence I said “maybe bandcamp”.
Ill do that someday too. I dont like getting rid of media though since 1 glitch/hack/brownout could take out your entire nas very easily.
Sure, I still have all physical media as a backup 😁 As for the NAS, I have a triple backup of it. I learned that the hard way a long time ago 😐
I don’t use Spotify, either. And do what you want to do, nobody is forcing your to put your music on Spotify.