• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    The ethical alternative is listening to mp3s straight from your own hard-drive, just like we did in the '50s.

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      17 hours ago

      Dude, I remember my grandpa telling me about ripping CDs back then. The computers they used were the size of entire rooms and could only rip at .5x

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        then do that. If you don’t have enough space, get an external hard drive. If you want convenience, you can attach the hard drive to a raspberry pi and access the music from anywhere. You’ll probably never get as convenient as spotify, but hey, you gotta decide what your values are and if that means being a streaming-vegan then that’s the sacrifice you gotta make.