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Another reason to never listen to anything recommended by spotify
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I’m so glad I stopped updating the app, I am lucky to still have the recently played at the top of my home page and then daily mixes right below it, I have to scroll to see the nonsense
Tidal crew. We don’t have podcasts either. It’s nice.
I switched to Tidal over a year ago. I thought I would miss SOMETHING about Spotify after 1 year but there’s nothing. The curated playlists are better, my recommended tracks are better, the UI is cleaner and easier to navigate. I actually learn about new genres and musicians that I otherwise wouldn’t have been exposed to. It’s the best.
Man, people here really overreact to artists paying money to promote their stuff.
Streaming services was supposed to recommend stuffs based on listening or watching habbits not who pay the most
People get mad that Steam shows them games. It’s like loading up Netflix, seeing the list of movies, and yelling “look at all of these ads”!
Spotify enshitification any%
deeply deeply twisted company
they think of music simply as ‘content’. cynical, disgusting.
Yeah it’s unfair.
The music industry is famous for being run on love and passion, and not advertising manufactured hits.
They also max out at 192kbps. Despicable.
They use 320 ogg for Premium’s Very High Quality, which is awesome, arguably audiophile quality and near indiscernable compared to FLAC (lossless). Ogg is much better / more compact than mp3 so you can expect much better quality at the same bitrate. It is 96 kbps ogg for Normal Quality, and 160 ogg for High Quality, both accessible in the Free tier. I am a musician of twenty years with good ears and sound equipment, years of experience listening to FLAC and converting to mp3 vs ogg at various bitrates to test, I think they’re doing a great job on this front.
Uh, music is content. Some music has more heart than others, but I wouldn’t say that Target is disgusting because they sell cheap prints and wall art.
Ah, yet another reason to never use their home page. YouTube music seems to be the only decent recommendation engine these days
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Spotify this week launched a new tool called Showcase that allows artists to promote their work directly in the streaming app’s revamped Home feed introduced earlier this year.
The new feature was announced earlier this year at Spotify’s Stream On event in LA, alongside a range of other growth and discovery tools for artists, like the full-screen recommendations known as “Marquee” and a new “Discovery Mode” tool that allows artists and their teams to identify songs they want prioritized on the streaming service.
The company says that Showcase is opening up to artists and their teams with U.S.-based billing with 1,000 or more monthly streams in the last 28 days in at least one of the target markets.
By default, Spotify says it will show the campaign to those who are likely to stream the release — a broad audience.
“While playlist pitching is an opportunity for artists to find new audiences and Marquee helps them make a splash for their new releases, today there are more moments than ever where promotion can drive impact.
Showcase gives them the ability to do just that: now artists can amplify a new release, give their catalog an encore, turn viral buzz into long-term fandom, and more – right at the moments that matter most and on the most visited place on Spotify: Home,” she added.
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Never used Spotify. I have my own methods of finding new music and once I have something I want to listen to I usually just type “[artist] [album] full album” on YouTube and if it’s not there (which is very rare) it’s usually on Bandcamp or SoundCloud. I do pay artists though, I buy their music if I enjoy it and always make sure to see them if they are in town, I think it’s healthier than a subscription service model.
I hate Spotify so much, but every other attempt I’ve made to move away failed.
I used tidal for a bit, but it seems to break frequently from any privacy tooling I would use. I know they give artist a better payout, but if you don’t work with my privacy method, it’s a non starter.
I just download or copy all the music/audio I want to have, and put that all on my phone. Then I listen to it anywhere, anytime.
500GB SDcard is <100$
Yeah, that’s a great option, but then the artist who created the music gets definitely zero for their product. It’s not like Spotify really pays fairly for the product, so it’s become pretty similar. The money grabbing Spotify does sounds like it’ll pump up business (making artists pay to promote) but I would be so hugely behind a streaming app that actually paid their artists fairly and promoted new unknown stuff, just because. The novelty alone!
I just buy the music I want from bandcamp or the band. I can organize and rip whatever and keep it backed up incredibly simply.
Then I put it on whatever device I want to use. Do you remember album/tape/CD collections. It’s like that but digital. The tech gives us all so much more control, it seems a shame to stream from a source like Spotify. Just stream your stuff to yourself, or put it on a tiny piece of silicon.
You can use Spotify like the radio I guess. A really creepy, ultra-payola-driven radio. Why not own some digital media, though? Like pay some artists directly and listen to their content digitally.
Who the fuck really needs Spotify to distribute their content? Maybe shitbags that NEED a corporate entertainment structure to survive. Fuck em.
Spotify isn’t genius. They just created a cultural choke point and they are gonna milk it like a starving baby cow. Having the investment and cooperation of the big labels allows and maintains this lucrative exploitation of creative labor.
Edit: There’s an episode of the Nerdist when some jerk from Linking park was on. He talked about getting royally fucked by the label they were on. That terrible band could not have been drilled into the culture without major label support and payola. They deserve nothing because they are a sacchrine confection of the corporate music industry. They are a golem of mass-market, general-purpose angst. They only positive thing from linking park was the singers suicide.
Support artists by buying their merch, not their music
Bandcamp maybe?
I switched to Qobuz. Mainly for sound quality, but they also pay artists more than ten times as much and they have pretty neat long read articles and deep dives, which is a way more satisfying way to discover new stuff. It’s pretty great.
Meh I moved back to the old trick where I torrent download bulk music and store it on my phone. No internet no problem.
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Lol nobody’s stopping you from paying with your money and data also nothing comes for free in this world unless you’re torrenting. Long live pirates !!
You can download the songs automatically or manually on Spotify if you wish. You can set it so it can only download the song when you are using wifi. You can also turn on being only able to listen to songs you have downloaded when you are not using wifi. It is very seamless. I am lucky and live in a country with dirty cheap data plans so I don’t even care for that. But it is nice it exists when I travel outside of my country.
And pirating isn’t free, you and everyone who makes it possible for you to torrent is paying with your and their time and you are also paying for the risk for getting infected. But you do you I just wanted to correct the “free” part of your statement.
There’s tools to rip from spotify and it’s risk free. I don’t see any pain in having music locally and many advantages like using better music players, control over the metadata, no chance of songs being inaccessible and no 10k local songs limit like spotify have
Lol sure. and you’re paying with your hard earned money and giving them your data so that they can profile you. Use a dns logger and see how many trackers are on Spotify even when you pay. Lol Pirating isn’t free but at least I am not being profiled. Also, getting infected is for people who dont know what theyre doing. Such people always say stuff Like only install apps from “playstore”. Never use any other OS apart from Windows and apple etc. Anyways you do you mate and be happy.
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Ha good one! Never heard of a billionaire artist. Its Always billion dollar companies.
JayZ, Rhianna, Paul McCartney, PDiddy, Jimmy Buffett are all Billionaires
And thats definitely because of Spotify yeah? And not their other business like clothing, perfume etc.
These goal posts on wheels?
That sounds great in theory, but the thing I haven’t been able to replace is seamless discovery.
I would have trouble finding new music without torrent sites. The trackers I use have a web of related artists at the bottom of the artist page.
The users add to the community through comments, uploads, suggestions, organizing, et cetera.
Using a tracker has helped me discover music that ain’t even on Spotify. It’s the tits!
Lol sure. I discover all my songs from torrents.
What?
Download a torrent such as this
and then I listen and keep the one’s that I like kinda like Spotify discover lol but oldskool
That sounds cumbersome as hell.
I want my song to end and my player to start automatically playing similar songs that are also curated based on my larger listening habits.
That’s why they take your money and data to keep a beautiful profile on you and sell it to 3rd party. You pay a premium for your liking both by money and data…Enjoy mate!
Yup, I’m paying for a data driven service that isn’t possible to host myself. Good job piecing that one together, champ!
There’s many blogs where you can discover music and unlike algorithms you get more diversity and nice descriptions. If you listen to a lot of hip hop it’s even easier by looking the featured artists
Spotify does a phenomenal job of learning what I like and auto-playing a mix of things after I finish a song or album that aren’t just in the same genre but are also based on my taste profile that’s developed over hours of listening habits – all with zero effort on my part. And I can still discover things via blogs too.
There just isn’t anything like that available in the self-hosted world yet, unfortunately.
I never stopped
I feel like such a boomer for doing this as well, but I’ve had precisely 0 issues when my internet goes down or signal gets weak. No buffering, no problem.
Been doing it since high school when I had the first-gen iPod Shuffle. Good times
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Love it when I try to turn off shuffle and it takes 2 minutes to fail to enable “enhanced” shuffle first because Im out of cell reception.
It is still trying to connect to the bloody internet starting up, taking minutes as where i live connectivity is not great on a commute. Makes me turn flight mode on. RAGE!!!
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Yes, but it also switches off after some time, and I tend to like exploring new music, so have to use either switches frequently anyway. Still raging!
Payola by any other name.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Muh-muh-muh myyyyy payola!
DROOL (x6)
Wtf im a paying costumer &@#)!!!
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I never understood the love for Spotify. It’s always felt so much more commercial to me. I’ve had a pandora acct for about 10 years now and I love it. Ad-free is awesome and I can just skip over the artist spotlights and sponsored stuff.
Time to cancel Spotify then.
