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.
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I honestly never went to Spotify. I listen to music between YT and Soundcloud most of the time, just about every song you can think of is on there and a lot of indie artists you never heard of, although SoundCloud appears to be getting worse by the day you now need to close 3 popup windows before you’re allowed to listen to music without signing in and a lot of the music on there is sped up or has a sharp ping in it to avoid detection algorithms.
God I really hate yt music. I fucking miss Google music. It was one of the best players out there.
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.
Recently read Spotify is running ads for the USA gestapo.
Fully unsubbed/deleted same day. Hell to the no.
Them pulling out of Spotify was the last push I needed to switch to Tidal. The only downside for me is there was a spotify exclusive cover of Daisy by Wet Leg that you can’t get anywhere else.
But isn’t tidal all Kanye or something?
I think Jay-Z funded part of it; not sure if he’s still involved or not… Looks like Block owns the vast majority of it now, and they’re a particularly shady and shitty enterprise as well.
Giz has all of their stuff on bandcamp for pay what you can
Wet leg is in there too
Join mp3 gang and leave streaming behind
Flac for lyf heretic
Bandcamp gets so much of my money…it’s the best service
any recs for good mp3 players? hard to find an affordable good condition ipod classic nowadays
Winamp really whips the llama’s ass
old phone whats still got the plug
Fiio makes one
PSPs and DS/3DSs play them pretty well, plus you get style points for being “retro”.
As someone that owned both, please don’t use them for audio (at least the first gen PSP, don’t know about the revisions). The audio while there is very bad compared to even BT audio nowadays. DS was especially bad that I didn’t bother with it. They are fine for retro games (and native games) even today though.
The audio was bad even with headphones? I never personally noticed a quality difference using the trusty 3.5mm jack present on those devices from the original mp3 file that I was using.
Bandcamp doesn’t have spotify exclusives, but I hear you.
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Did you know that in the US you can copy spotify AI knockoff and sell them ? As it is not human produced, they are not protected by IP laws 🤭
I know it doesn’t matter much, but it pleases me that Spotify isn’t getting my money.
Kind Gizzard can still drop albums faster than AI.
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!
Their live shows are basically giant jam sessions with their songs mixed in.
Spotify is an advertising platform, first and foremost. They don’t give a fuck about music or artists.
Or their customers 😅
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
In the billionaires’ defense; slaves don’t want to do slavery anymore so they need to thin the herd /s
So gross. I’m not going back to Spotify.
I ditched spotify long time ago. Primarily on bandcamp now. Feels nice being able to stream music without a subscription but still using a platform where the bands/artists get paid fair.
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.
