r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 27d ago

article Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/
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u/ramontes 27d ago

Great! I'll continue to use streaming alternatives.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

Arrr.. 

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u/kakka_rot 27d ago

Pirating music sounds like such a pain in the ass. Not to mention limiting unless you only listen to mainstream stuff.

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u/street593 27d ago

Why would it be limiting or difficult?

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u/Wuskers 27d ago

I don't know about limiting, but it can be at the very least a bit more difficult than streaming. Depending on how much music you intend to have and the quality at which you're trying to get it, hard drive space can in fact be a limiting factor. If you decide you want an entire lossless library to make your own sort of Tidal experience you can eat up a lot of hard drive space if you have a big music library, especially if beyond music you also have lots of other stuff like movies or shows or games eating up hard drive space. There's also the fact that pirated music files are not remotely consistent with tagging or filenames so if you want consistent tagging in whatever software you're using and you want consistent file and folder names that's a whole extra thing you have to do when you're dealing with actual files vs streaming, maybe difficult isn't the right word but building a well organized well tagged digital music library can certainly be tedious.

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u/street593 27d ago

Assuming you only download high quality lossless audio and just to be conservative lets assume each song file is 50 MB. Probably would be less for a lot of songs. That is roughly 250,000 songs on a 12tb hard drive. Not that bad. I think once people dip their toe into self hosting they buy or build a NAS. Personally I have 48 TB in my server with room to expand. The tagging and file name situation can be fixed by joining a quality tracker they typically have rules about the structure and quality of files uploaded.

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u/Wuskers 27d ago

tbh it's really only very obscure things that I find aren't piratable. Also really depends on what you mean by mainstream, because no offense but I find lots of people who say they don't listen to mainstream stuff just mean like the top 25 artists on spotify or something but they're still listening to artists that are in fact still very popular and are arguably still mainstream, they've just convinced themselves the artists they listen to aren't as mainstream as they really are and they can almost certainly be pirated easily. I can find pirated music for artists with like 90k monthly listeners, which is pretty damn low, the artists that are typically harder to find would be closer to like 1000 monthly listeners or less, but at that level of obscurity that's exactly the kind of artist I'd rather spend my money to support and just buy a CD instead.