I have probably ~500 gigs of music saved.
That's exactly why you should store your music locally.
It's quite easy to torrent or use applications that have fallen out of popularity. Before the new Android soulseek client came out, I was reliant on Freezer. Now that that is discontinued and that I own a laptop again, I'm using Soulseek and rutracker to rebuild my archive.
Storage is cheap too. 1tb micro SD cards are below $60 dollars, I can't imagine why anyone would go through the trouble of purchasing a yearly subscription of spotify that consumes both your data plan and wastes your battery at a faster rate than if you'd play it locally on any device. Then again convenience plays a factor and ignorance. Slurp up any objective in front of you and fall into peer pressure and you're a victim of corporate advertising.
I do dislike how spotify pays their subscribed artists, which could be a great move considering how little they get.
inb4 "hurr durr 44.1kHz is above range of human ear"
In case you don't know, that's the sampling frequency - and you need to sample at at least twice the highest frequency you want to preserve to avoid aliasing defects. E.g. sampled in 44.1kHz, 20.0kHz and 24.1kHz will sample over each other and can't be distinguished due to aliasing.
44.1kHz being just barely over twice the theoretical upper limit of human ear means that a lot of frequencies that are just over what you may be able to hear will instead fold over the higher range of what you will actually hear & this makes the upper side of the spectrum muddy. You want those foldover frequencies to be outside the range of what you might hear on the final product.
