Over the last few weeks, I’ve been pretty much switching fully to local files on my PC after using Spotify as my streaming service of choice for many years. In this blog post, I’ll talk about my reasons and how I do it, together with the advantages and disadvantages of this approach to listening to music.

Why?

I’ve been using Spotify as my main way of listening to music since around 2016 up until recently. Spotify has been a bad company for a while but the recent events with the CEO investing 700 million dollars into AI military drones gave me the rest and I get why certain artists are pulling their music off the platform. The ability to have unlimited access to pretty much most of the music that exists is very impressive, but the constant pop-ups, playlists made by algorithms, the overall distracting feed, and rising prices have always been kinda bothering me.