Technology

Already using Spotify to pirate music.

It's a load of bullshit, for a start the ISP has my details and should be able to attest my connection is rented by someone of legal age and it should be up to me what I let my children (assuming I have any) see and not see on that connection. I already had to click the "yes just give me the porn damn it" agreement on my mobile phone which was less likely to be randomly shared unmonitored and now this overbearing crap. I'll just avoid sites and services that require this.

One more reason if you're still buying music, to start buying physical albums again while you still can.

CDs aren't age-gated and you can rip them to FLAC yourself. Vinyl also isn't age-gated because it's analog, and although it's a longer and more drawn-out process than just ripping a CD which will only take a few minutes as because vinyl is an analog format, you gotta record it in real-time, and then manually split the raw waveform up into separate tracks, manually input metadata, and manually generate a cuesheet from the split-up tracks before finally exporting*, you can still needle-drop LPs to FLAC as well.

*This isn't as big an issue with 78s, 45s, and EPs (which are 33-1/3rpm singles last time I thought) as it is with LPs as there isn't as much playback time on them, and at least 45s and EPs are singles rather than a full album like with LPs so you only have one song per side, and I assume 78s are singles as well, as 78s max out at 5min per side.

If something's finally going to force the industry to curb its bullshit, this might just be it. Once you annoy normal people, it's all over. They seriously underestimate how many people would just stop using Spotify, or Youtube, or whatever other platform it is

You're way better off with your own music collection. That is what I have. I use Tauon music box it handles large playlists well.

This is another step closer to requiring an ID to use the internet at all, which is exactly what the ruling class wants.

Fight back wherever you can.

Personally I could never get into the whole Spotify and Pandora thing. I want to listen to what I want to listen to and when I want to listen to it, without ridiculous restrictions and rules. YouTube has honestly been the far better choice for music for me.

Bandcamp, Soulseek, Navidrome, ListenBrainz.

Has been a pretty solid Spotify-replacement stack.

Tidal is pretty good these days. Qobuz too

And Bandcamp

Just a friendly reminder that the OSA was never about safeguarding kids from seeing porn.

Are the government seriously worried about a child being exposed to Break Stuff or So What on Spotify?

Spotify fans?

I showed it something else with cheeks and now I'm on 15 watchlists.

I have a non-uk account but at the first sight of age verification I will delete my account.

I'm returning to car boot sales to buy cubic meters of CDs.
That, and BandCamp.

I’m confused. Is every app in the UK requiring face scanning? I thought it was just adult content.

Never understood Spotifys appeal. Youtube has always been better imo.