I am super conflicted about this, that despite the fact I saw this article when it was released, I did not share it.
The reason being, (Helsing) The company he is investing in is suppling drones to Ukraine.
Further more, while I highly recommend buycotting Spotify in general, due to their anti-consumer practices and their shitty treatment for the artists and their use of DRM, I can’t really stand behind and defend boycotting every defense tech investor.
Basically, I can call for boycotting investors who invest in defense tech companies that supply tech to the evil sides. I can’t really do the same for all the defense tech companies in the world.
I can’t really stand behind and defend boycotting every defense tech investor.
I can. Easily.
Spotify has been garbage for so long. I left when the Joe Rogan stuff got so bad and artists were demanding to have their music removed from Spotify in response.
You can buy music and maintain your own personal collection. It was not as hard as I thought it would be and the quality is so much higher. Artists get more of the money as well from you.
Where do you buy music?
7 Digital and Bandcamp
Both owned by Songtradr, I prefer to use Qobuz
Just checked out 7 digital, seems to have a decent library but the pricing is weird… I looked at a 3 track release and it costs 8,79€ for the whole thing, or 0,99€ for each track 🤔
People still buy music?
I even buy vinyls
I’ve started buying music
I just buy cds 5 for a $1 @ GW and rip to pc, transfer to phone. Got almost 100GB
I’ve noticed people haven’t been talking about it anywhere near as much in the last few years. I used them briefly, but at the time you couldn’t do things like download an album without making a playlist with that album in it.
It was very weird.
And if want to stream your music on the go, setting up something like jellyfin or plex works really well
Or Navidrome if you only want to stream music. It also supports dynamic playlists, internet radio, and scrobbling.
Stream your own for only a few bucks a year (price for a domain name)
Navidrome + Feishin are a killer combo for replacing Spotify.
Symfonium provides a similar UX on Android.
(The only thing I’m lacking is playlist synchronization and, as far as I can tell, no such homelab software exists to do it.)
So how do playlists work with this?
Navidrome uses the Subsonic protocol to provide it’s playlists.
You can use that to import to Symfonium, for example, but it won’t stay synced if you make a change at one end or the other. You can reimport in Symfonium but it’s still pretty messy and not very useful if you want to update your playlists on the go.
Feishin on pc
Amperfly on ios
Big fan of Feishin!
For iOS I’ve always used play:Sub, but will give Amperfy a try!
price for a domain name
Or host your own VPN on home network. Or use Tailscale VPN, that also works behind CG-NAT, and can usually get direct connection.
Like if keeping Joe Rogan and making donations to Trump wasn’t enough
TIDAL pays much more to the artists anyway.
So does Qobuz!
True, although Qobuz targets a slightly different audience.
Spotify < Tidal < Selfhosted
My library is not yet at a point where I can completely abandon streaming services.
And doesn’t have a quick way to get to the bottom of a long playlist on Android,
Literally takes me 30+seconds to get to the bottom of my main playlist
This is why Youtube Music lasted a total of one day of me testing it a while ago (this was when I had Premium for a while and figured might as well test it). Insane to have a scroll view that expands as you scroll down, taking five seconds to load the next 10 items, instead of a fixed-size list.
I canceled as soon as I read about it. Have been a premium user since it was available in my country. Didn’t know about the shady shit…
So glad I have never given a dime to that fucking company.
Tbh
I wish I could just make the music I hear in my head.
Then that would require learning one of those fancy sample things with keyboards and knobs and sliders and buttons I can’t remember the name of.
Course it doesn’t help that I can write music and all the fancy DAS stuff is basically magic.
Then I wouldn’t have to spend money to listen to music that just doesn’t hit right
