So gross. I’m not going back to Spotify.
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So spotify has stolen their music. We have the technology to do anything we want, but someone needs to pay for it. Billionaires are holding us back. Billionaires are choosing not to end hunger or poverty. Remember that: rich people are choosing not to end hunger, homeless, or poverty. In fact, the rich are making it worse.
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That is illegal in germany. So i wonder how that now works
Can you expand on this? Which part, specifically, is illegal? How is it enforced?
I’m currently using OpenTune. Works great. What are you guys on?
musicolet (phone) mediamonkey (desktop)
Holy shit I forgot about media monkey. Trying to remember the one I used to use on Linux. Clementine I think? There was a good KDE and GNOME one I remember.
I know it doesn’t matter much, but it pleases me that Spotify isn’t getting my money.
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Spotify is an advertising platform, first and foremost. They don’t give a fuck about music or artists.
Or their customers 😅
I used Spotify super early and it’s crazy how anti consumer and musicians they are, or became. Every now and then they smuggled in some ads and every time it was like: omg what a weird glitch. Podcasts, you would still hear their stupid ads. Oh well, then they suddenly injected ads into podcasts, wait, why do i pay for ads now? Seriously they deserve to go under.
I had a few support cases open with them when I open Spotify and get full screen ads about podcast and they spin it all “oh no. That’s not an ad that’s a recommendation!”
I don’t use Spotify for podcasts, full stop, I had how I have to switch it from “all” to “music” on the home page. So dumb.
Kind Gizzard can still drop albums faster than AI.
Their live shows are basically giant jam sessions with their songs mixed in.
Have they beaten Buckethead yet?
In 2011, Buckethead began releasing albums in the “Pike” series, mini-albums usually around 30 minutes in length, each with a sequential number similar to a comic book. As of October 2024, Buckethead has released 662 Pike albums, including almost 300 live recordings.
These seem to be him jamming straight onto the record.
Goodness me, not close! King Gizzard are certainly prolific but not on that scale!
Well, at least they can aspire to beat Muslimgauze, who released ninety albums on thirty-two different labels in seventeen years — mostly in the last eight or so — and died at the age of thirty-seven, leaving unreleased material for ninety more records. Alas, the music is rather samey.
But given the AI imitations that are still invading Release Radar and Discover Weekly playlists, which the company prominently recommends to its users
This is the turbo-shitty part of the whole thing.
Facebook do this as well; they act like they’ve got too many users to police everything that gets uploaded, and you could almost believe them on that, but they sure as fuck have the resources to be able to police what they’re choosing to boost.
They’re choosing not to do that, because The Algorithm is highly tuned around “how many dollars can we make next month” and they’d rather use that as their metric.
I tried Spotify years ago. I wanted to play Queen. first song was my man Freddie belting out about those fat bottomed girls.
next song, hoping it’s a killer, and Gene fucking Simmons of KISS starts playing.
I wonder what the fuck this shit is, I want Freddie. I change the song back to Queen. next song… Queens of the Stoneage…ok.
fuck Spotify. If I wanted to listen to the fucking radio, I would listen to the god damned radio. I listen to bands, not genres.
never used their shit app again.
I mean, I use a foss YouTube music app, yarr, but even there if you play an album, or a specific song from the album, it queues up the album. If you play a song out of search it queues up related songs. Spotify is similar. Playlists are also a thing. I don’t use it for ethics reasons but sounds like your past issues were user error.
new user, picks “Queen Greatest Hits”, plays, gets KISS and other rock bands.
it’s not a user problem, it’s a UX problem.
Spotify shuffles “similar artists” in if you pick the playlists called BAND_NAME Radio.
I dunno how it operates in free mode, because I don’t hate myself enough to hear their crappy ads.
Free mode forces shuffle play, it’s obnoxious
Amazon Prime does that too, and you have to pay for that…
Listen to King Gizzard, listen to Deerhoof. Great music :)
Spotify hates musicians. Bandcamp, Tidal if you need Spotify like service.
I still use Pandora. I know they still lowball artist payments (not as bad as Spotify though) but I’ve never been presented with AI music on there as of yet.
im on spotify and also have not gotten any AI music. nor have i seen any ads for ICE that i keep hearing about. all im missing is gizz really but that can easily be downloaded. just time consuming due to sheer amount of songs
Pandora just repeats the same set of songs over and over and over and over for me. Then you go over to the next radio, plays few popular songs and then the start repeating the ones you liked many moons ago again.
What you are describing is what i like about it. And it introduced new songs often enough for me to not get bored with it.
I just don’t understand anyone wpuld Listen to an AI knockoff of KG when you can find all of their concerts uploaded by their official bootlegger on the archive.
I haven’t used spotify for years. I never paid for it. I’ve been buying music (mostly from Bandcamp) and I have no regrets. I try to see bands live when I can, too, and buy a shirt or something.
Recently read Spotify is running ads for the USA gestapo.
Fully unsubbed/deleted same day. Hell to the no.
