It lacks quality. Even on regular gear with my bad 39 years old ears I can ABX 320kbit MP3 on specific samples, trained people can do so on typical (rather than specifically chosen) MP3s.
I find that very hard to believe. Which encoder settings did you use? Did you do proper double-blind ABX tests?
Drink water. If you find that a bit plain, drink sparkling water with a slice of lemon or lime instead. You don't have to drink soda, no one's forcing you.
Potato chips are pretty bad too, not just for your health.
Of course they have loads of fat and carbs in them, in addition to heaping amounts of sugar. That's a bad recipe for your general health, but the sticky gooey carbs also wreak havoc on your teeth. It can be a lot worse than soda, because it tends to stick around between your teeth, whereas soda gets washed away by saliva relatively quickly.
Also, don't swirl the soda around in your mouth, drink it straight down if you must.
No farmer has unlimited land available. You also need to rotate crops for maximum yield, and it gets exponentially harder the more different crops you need to grow.
Can you grow seed crops slightly cheaper yourself? Probably, but that is also one field that doesn't create any profit for you. It is cheaper to grow crops for consumption on every field, and buy seeds from someone who specializes in growing seed crops.
I've had iDevices, including an iPad Air. Sure, the hardware was nice, but the user experience is so locked-down, strangled and limited that it was a real hassle to use it.
I get a very strong feeling that MBW and Vulture are either voluntary shills or paid off by RIAA and the big labels, to tarnish Spotify's reputation. There are licensing negotations ongoing with the major labels, and they obviously want to put Spotify in as bad a light as possible, so they can steamroll over them with demands.
As mentioned in other comments, a bunch of those "fake artists" are absolutely real people.
I definitely got the vibe from reading the linked articles, that MBW and Vulture have a bone to pick with Spotify. Maybe they're RIAA shills who want to tarnish Spotify's reputation, due to the ongoing licensing negotiations.
Some of the mentioned artists are definitely real enough, but MBW/Vulture seems to think no internet presence to speak of = fake made-up artist.
Misrepresenting it? It's just an artist name (a lot of which are pseudonyms for "real" artists, anyway) and a track title, and a piece of music that is non-offensive and decent enough for background listening. What's so wrong about that?
Nope, it doesn't work like that. People generally don't respond that way to obstacles, they just work harder to find ways around them.
But what happened with music is that streaming services like Spotify are so inexpensive, so convenient and have such enormous libraries that it's just so much easier than pirating. THAT's how you get people to pay again.
That is one of the reasons why I looking to move to a house rather than the apartment I live in now. I don't trust my neighbors to not be idiots. I'm a board member in our association, and I've seen firsthand how idiotic, short-sighted, ignorant and downright malicious our tenants can be. And since it's a condo, it's extremely hard to throw out the assholes.
Dismantling public services, fucking over the poor while giving tax breaks to the wealthy, passing laws to allow greater pollution and construction in previously-protected nature areas, increased military spending, the list goes on and on.
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Why should pay be a secret?
Hate speech is whatever the folks in charge don't like. Currently, they're on the left
Uhhhhh....
It lacks quality. Even on regular gear with my bad 39 years old ears I can ABX 320kbit MP3 on specific samples, trained people can do so on typical (rather than specifically chosen) MP3s.
I find that very hard to believe. Which encoder settings did you use? Did you do proper double-blind ABX tests?
Drink water. If you find that a bit plain, drink sparkling water with a slice of lemon or lime instead. You don't have to drink soda, no one's forcing you.
Potato chips are pretty bad too, not just for your health.
Of course they have loads of fat and carbs in them, in addition to heaping amounts of sugar. That's a bad recipe for your general health, but the sticky gooey carbs also wreak havoc on your teeth. It can be a lot worse than soda, because it tends to stick around between your teeth, whereas soda gets washed away by saliva relatively quickly.
Also, don't swirl the soda around in your mouth, drink it straight down if you must.
And of course the big labels take most of that, before (maybe) handing the artists a pittance.
The big dinosaurs record companies need to die out.
You're forgetting to account for specialization. It is less efficient overall to go 50/50 food/seed crops, than it is to go all-in on either.
No farmer has unlimited land available. You also need to rotate crops for maximum yield, and it gets exponentially harder the more different crops you need to grow.
Can you grow seed crops slightly cheaper yourself? Probably, but that is also one field that doesn't create any profit for you. It is cheaper to grow crops for consumption on every field, and buy seeds from someone who specializes in growing seed crops.
The vast majority of farmers already buy seeds every season, Monsanto or no Monsanto.
It's simply the most efficient way to do it.
Do their self-commissioned music push out other music from the service? This is all elevator music, utterly generic and replaceable.
FM radio? Seriously?
And my phone has a 3.5mm plug, just like yours. So what's your point?
I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the vast library of music that I have lightning-fast access to, through my phone's 4G connection.
(It also lasts 2+ days of normal use on a charge, you just have to chose the right phone)
I've had iDevices, including an iPad Air. Sure, the hardware was nice, but the user experience is so locked-down, strangled and limited that it was a real hassle to use it.
Not worth it.
I get a very strong feeling that MBW and Vulture are either voluntary shills or paid off by RIAA and the big labels, to tarnish Spotify's reputation. There are licensing negotations ongoing with the major labels, and they obviously want to put Spotify in as bad a light as possible, so they can steamroll over them with demands.
As mentioned in other comments, a bunch of those "fake artists" are absolutely real people.
I definitely got the vibe from reading the linked articles, that MBW and Vulture have a bone to pick with Spotify. Maybe they're RIAA shills who want to tarnish Spotify's reputation, due to the ongoing licensing negotiations.
Some of the mentioned artists are definitely real enough, but MBW/Vulture seems to think no internet presence to speak of = fake made-up artist.
Misrepresenting it? It's just an artist name (a lot of which are pseudonyms for "real" artists, anyway) and a track title, and a piece of music that is non-offensive and decent enough for background listening. What's so wrong about that?
Nope, it doesn't work like that. People generally don't respond that way to obstacles, they just work harder to find ways around them.
But what happened with music is that streaming services like Spotify are so inexpensive, so convenient and have such enormous libraries that it's just so much easier than pirating. THAT's how you get people to pay again.
Europe is more like "capitalism with a human face", in other words social democracy.
Why didn't they use Torx instead, then?
That is one of the reasons why I looking to move to a house rather than the apartment I live in now. I don't trust my neighbors to not be idiots. I'm a board member in our association, and I've seen firsthand how idiotic, short-sighted, ignorant and downright malicious our tenants can be. And since it's a condo, it's extremely hard to throw out the assholes.
I prefer Saturday, because then I know I don't have to worry about getting up super early the next day.
Haha OK whatever dude.
Just off the cuff Denmark and Great Britain.
Dismantling public services, fucking over the poor while giving tax breaks to the wealthy, passing laws to allow greater pollution and construction in previously-protected nature areas, increased military spending, the list goes on and on.
From the extreme insane right, I guess all political parties seem left-wing to you.
Good for you, man *thumbs up*