- cross-posted to:
- spotify@lemmy.world
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- spotify@lemmy.world
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I dropped my Spotify account after last price hike.
me too. I pirate instead now.
Wait, free users of Spotify could not pick which track they listen to???
No, you could tap shuffle on an album-by-album basis, or on a Playlist with like 10+ tracks or something.
This is why I never even gave Spotify a chance. It didn’t make sense to me.
Well, on PC or tablet you always could, but on mobile it was always album random shuffle… and if you created an album of less than N songs, in mobile they added related tracks in the reproduction (radio-spotify like) so it remained not possible to control what you listen…
EDIT: I updated the verb tenses to the fact that now you can in the mobile app chose the song to play
You guys use spotify ?
Mostly for random song discovery considering my previously liked songs, I regularly download/obtain those songs I like for offline reproduction and preservation… online stuff has short lifes
Plexamp.
YouTube, but yes it’s insanely popular and an excellent value.
Yeah. Just started my self hosting journey a few months ago, looking to replace Spotify at some point. I got a NAS with Jellyfin set up, my next step is replacing Google photos with Immich probably.
I do appreciate Spotify will be adding lossless music soon, but they have so many other issues.
It’s probably the most popular music streaming service at the moment.
Sure, for the morally bankrupt
-Sent from my iPhone built with slave labor and suicide nets at foxconn factories
Samsung doesn’t build in China. How do you know he’s not using a Galaxy, or something similar?
Who is any better? Literally all are paying pennies to the artist per stream.
Some people buy albums
Buying albums is great because you can host them on your own Plex server and use Plexamp.
(or something like Jellyfin, but IMO Plexamp is still the best app available for streaming your own music collection)
Tidal pays more than 3x what Spotify pays. Qobuz pays like 5-6x.
Although better, still very little in comparison to bandcamp
Sure, that’s true, though if you allow streams on Bandcamp, those pay $0, so in terms of “try before you buy”, any streaming service is better. It’s only if you actually sell an album on band camp (or AmpWall, a smaller indie service that does a lot of the same stuff) that you’d get paid, as an artist.
I say this as a musician who has put out several albums both independently and with a label.
Tidal, Deezer and qobuz pay better and don’t fund Slow Joe
Are we talking about theBiden administration?
Tidal doesn’t host far-right mouthpieces, offers much higher quality streams, and pays the artists far, far more per play.
Edit: Here’s a chart from 2022:
If they had a better regional(Taiwan) music view, I would switch to them.
The chart is neat.
But I could care less about (US) politics while listening to music.
hell no
Sailing the high seas ,is the way ,yep
No, it’s not. Even more so if you like your artists.
Buy their merch rather than feeding the beast
Even if that was ok, I’m sure people who pirate buy a ton of merch from all the artists they pirate, that’s why all those artists get a ton of money.
I’m sure that small to medium artists don’t get fleeced by Spotify and get a ton of money from a service that almost everyone in the west is using. /s
I’m sure they are on Spotify (which is shitty anyway) and other streaming services by choice. And if you are against streaming services, feel free to buy their albums.
Some more things I’m sure of include that Spotify exists for the artists and won’t sneakily replace them with Suno-generated shit at first opportunity or fuck with people’s legacy of holy playlists or make the interface more cumbersome to alter users’ habits, or increase the price until the frogs start jumping out. It’s allowed to exists through the graces of biggest publishing conglomerates whose C-suite and shareholders get the lion’s share. Fuck fucking Spotify.
Spotify is trash anyways.
is spotify being desperate, or there is an ulterior motive?
YouTube Music allows this, maybe they’re losing ad money to them on the people that weren’t going to get premium anyway.
I haven’t used Spotify, until recently, since it was first released. Its big value over Pandora was that it let you choose what to listen to…when did that change?
I’m using spotx on Linux so I don’t get ads, can search individual songs, etc. I thought the free tier was just ad supported, I didn’t realize that they didn’t let you pick what you wanted to listen to.
only premium subscribers could pick individual tracks previously
What a ripoff.
Oh, there’s a Spotx for Windows too. There ya go, anybody using Spotify free who doesn’t want to buy into the tiering enshittification go patch your Spotify client. No ads, pick your own tracks, like Spotify used to be when it was a new and a good value for the service.
I’m just too lazy to find a music private tracker and setup Lidarr, I’ll do that eventually and then just stream through Jellyfin like one of the cool kids.
The desktop application (both Windows and Linux) allows free users to pick tracks. The mobile application does not.
That makes sense, thanks.
I use a laptop for a mobile device so I haven’t bothered with the mobile apps yet. It seems like the same kind of client patch could be done with revanced.
Winamp with a cool custom skin and downloaded mp3s was better than Spotify imo.
Why would I decide what I like to listen to when am algorithm can do it for me?
I fully jumped on the Spotify bandwagon hoping the algorithm would decide what i listen to, I’d become stuck in a rut and hadn’t really listened to anything new for a good 15 years.
Well… After letting it figure my music tastes out, every single automatically generated playlist on there starts off with crap I just immediately skip before devolving into the same 5-10 songs I listened to pre-Spotify. So i guess it knows my taste well? But it has turned out to be useless for this too!
I know it’s cool to shit on spotify and streaming services on Lemmy, but personally I disagree. I loved Winamp and had tens of thousands of songs back in the day, downloaded on my zippy 56k dial up connection. But being able to search for and play virtually any song available instantly and share collaborative playlists, no matter where you are, is so much better.
Easier to let users play music for free when you don’t pay the artists I guess
None of you were. Y’all were stealing it for years.
Talk about projection
Lol, I’m a vinyl nerd, I’ve probably given more money to the music industry than to anything else except food
Rent?
Touché. Gotta admit I didn’t think it through properly, there’s probably a bunch of other things as well. Point is I think I’ve provided the music industry with more money than it strictly deserves.
Especially with the price of concerts these days. Jesus.
Arrrr
Is this the onion? They add the basic feature of a media player where you can listen the title you clicked and not random stuff? If I understood correctly, this is not a feature, it’s just a restriction being removed
The mobile application has always had this restriction for free users (as far as I know), but the desktop application has not.
I don’t think it was always that way but it has been for years now.
Or you’ve been using spotube and been doing this all along
Spotube doesn’t actually use the Spotify API. They used to use the Spotify API for their music database, but they stopped when they received a cease and desist.
They’ve updated the app and you can again! You just need to select an external metadata provider. If you use Sonic Liberation, you can log into spotify again just like before. https://spotube.krtirtho.dev/downloads/
Oh my, things have changed fast. I wasn’t aware there were other metadata providers. There I go spreading misinformation again.
That’s why I originally went Google music. I thought Spotify was garbage and didn’t have that shit I wanted, still true today 🤣
I love product updates as part of my technology feed…
I miss old technology feeds in the classic internet days. That actually posted and listed out cool stuff with technology
RSS is still going strong. I’m in the process of shifting my screen time from lemmy to RSS. Just articles, no comments. Makes me realize how addicted I’ve been to comment drama, I say as I post a comment.
cool, my “music” folder filled with mp3s could always do that
Too late, already got sick of their shit and went back to downloading everything myself. I have to have two media player apps on my phone to account for podcasts and music but it’s still better than using spotify. Probably a better way to do that too but haven’t been bothered enough to look into it.
I still let spotify to discover me things from time to time… but regularly I download/obtain those that I like, I never abandoned my offline library, I am old enough to know that nothing online perdures…
