There are plenty of controversies surrounding Spotify, but what really made me cancel my subscription was the fact that they ran recruitment ads for ICE. Boycott Spotify!
Spotify’s interface always has some baffling design decision every time I’ve used it. Google is run by Satan, but at least he knows how to build a music streaming app.
it’s a shame because Spotify was one of the only ones with a working free tier.
but self-hosting feels nicer anyway
Spotify’s shitty algorithm drove me away. I love Qobuz. It doesn’t trap me in a loop— I get to pick everything I listen to.
Quobuz also does not have any AI content, and pays artists far more than any other streaming platform.
Qobuz
I’m gonna have to try that.
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I prefer collecting music, CDs into MP3s and listening to those on my PC using Strawberry or on my modded Creative Zen Micro MP3-player. I’m pretty sure to say that buying an used CD from thriftstore gives as much money to the artist as does streaming it on Spotify. (=0€)
yea that’ll show them for sure
Um, one this is old news, and two, they aren’t getting my money. How else would I show them? I could at least tell tnem why I stopped GIVING THEM MY MONEY.
How else would you show them why?
Not giving them money will but the majority will stay subbed anyway due to the convenience.
Not when there are ample alternatives.
Ahoy! There’s data on these torrential waters, and with the money we save, we can afford to buy all these bands’ merch and attend their shows!
Just download and build an offline music collection like before 🙌
Spotify has shit audio quality anyways.
Do this or use Qobuz. Qobuz also allows purchase and digital download of the wav files for permanent offline storage.
Using wav files when flac exists seems like a waste of space and bandwidth
Not a good look. Any way around this on Android without Google Play Services?
You might be able to open the website in a browser. I have Graphene and run sandboxed Google Play for Qobuz.
The webapp for the Qobuz music player itself explicitly doesn’t work on mobile.
Do they have more music in the streaming plan than in the download store? I searched for one of my favorite artists and they only have two songs in the store.
Their library isn’t as big as Spotify sadly, but that’s the artists fault. It’s like $35 total to distribute to most streaming services and an extra $5 to include Qobuz, tidal, deezer, and a handful of others.
Spotify provides lossless streaming nowadays actually.
24-bit/44.1kHz (2117kbps)
CD quality, not lossless.
And build your own streaming infrastructure, with Navidrome for example.
Im using my already setup Jellyfin Server for that. Symfonium to access the libary on my phone and Jellyfin-TUI on PC. The customizability of Symfonium is amazing!
Navidrome is sooo nice, highly recommend
Amen. Not sure if it’d be right to say that it’s never been easier, but between supporting artists you like through Bandcamp and getting music you want through Soulseek, it sure is easy.
Like the before times, eh? Gonna need a pack of cheap earbuds, some silly bands, and a lack of care for my future hearing capacity.
I finally was able to get my wife to cancel it a few months ago. She is using my server now and it’s been a rough transition, but we are getting there.
Been boycotting them for 1,5 year or so. Went to Qobuz but mainly buy vinyl in recordshops or via bandcamp. Also buy a lot of digital albums during bandcamp fridays
Mandatory fuck Spotify. They rip off artists too.
They also elevated Joe Rogan and the entire antitrans movement… many years ago…
I don’t support giving Joe Rogan any money either but I honestly think the Spotify deal helped move him out for the spotlight. I would say his peak was a few years ago before the Spotify deal, I definitely don’t hear as much out of him now as I used to.
This thread made me start a trial for Qobuz, so thanks for the recommendation!
Got it. I’ll continue to not use Spotify.
I disliked the company before it was cool
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I mean there’s lots of reasons not to use Spotify, think they got Israeli ties too
Already stopped using for platforming and paying millions to Joe Rogan
This was my breaking point.
Ah yes Joe Rogan because he actually does interviews and asks questions instead of the mind numbing news outlets who are bought and paid for.
Look up operation mocking bird and come back and see how stupid this comment is
lOok Up OpeRaTioN mOckiNgBirD
It’s not the cold war anymore, troglodyte. Also, even if both sides do propaganda, it doesn’t mean that you’re not brainwashed by the Russian side of it. You do listen to Joe Rogan, so you’re already a certified brainlet.
Try referring to something relevant next time lmao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Tenet_Media_investigation
Hot damn you are all over this post repeatedly smashing your face into moldy dog shit with these comments.
Hilarious. Good one I guess? Someone has to be the truth in this shithole
Please fuck off if you think this is a shit hole.
Ah yes I love the smug conservative thinker.
“think”
You actually made me laugh out loud, you’re hilarious
When did everyone stop liking Joe Rogan. Oh when he wouldn’t suck off to the establishment and is outside the operation mockingbird
You are assuming everyone liked him from the beginning, his podcast got popular amongst simple people because he would talk about random dumb shit like some chimp YouTube videos. Then he started doing interviews with some characters and the controversy from that him more fame, that’s about it. If you talk to normal people outside of your core group mostly no one takes him seriously and he is pretty much platforming the shittiest little facists and right wingers to blast their dumb views on his podcast, nothing he’s doing is improving society in any form, grow up and try to improve yourself instead of attaching yourself to some personality who doesn’t care about anything other than making money off of you
We were actually free thinkers and never stared listening to him in the first place.
You’re a special kind of stupid, aren’t you, kiddo?
I never did like him, but his blatant double standards made it kinda hard for everyone that didn’t have them as well.
You’re stupid
Don’t breed
Lol we will outbreed you soy boys
I think it’s funny when conservatives say stuff like this. Like. Your kids are gonna grow up hating you & diverge from your reactionary ideology as soon as they can. I encourage you to have more!
How did your normie, socially and intellectually stunted ass even end up on Lemmy. Did you get banned from Reddit ?
That’s a very weird thing to say
I have never understood what a “soy boy” is exactly
I’ve also never understood what white supremacists (I’m assuming you’re some sort of bigoted weirdo) think they’re achieving by pretending they have many children
I have no children. I don’t like children
Right now, I’m laying back in my hot tub with a glass of wine
I can guarantee that all the things you would like to have, I enjoyed and then tossed aside
You’re pathetic and you will die alone and lonely
Music streaming is amazing. I love it. It’s so much easier to find new music.
That being said, best way to support the artists is to go to their shows, and buy their merch. Specifically, buy the album. There is no guarantee it will still be available for streaming forever, so best to have a physical copy and rip it to mp3 for archiving and digital use
Tidal pays artists 4X more per stream than Spotify.
Apple Music 2X more.
Spotify is the biggest problem with artists making no money.
