Comment on Apple ordered by EU regulators to open up to rivals.

Eideen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Poorly written article but it does end with a correction that “Spotify has not opted in to using the required APIs”.

  While I have no way of knowing who to blame here, I see Spotify trying to blame Apple rather than talk about the api claim. If they have an objection to that api, let’s meet there, a little closer to reality

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  • Eideen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I believe that only apply to the HomePod

    Although some third-party music services can stream directly from Apple’s HomePod, many major streamers, including Spotify, never adopted the necessary API. Instead, users have to use AirPlay to play songs from Spotify — though, a workaround in iOS 17 made this process a little easier by allowing users to ask Siri to start an AirPlay session.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah but that still makes no sense.

      I have Spotify and lost that easy volume control capability when this issue first surfaced. However I have never used a HomePod. Something changed and it has nothing to do with my non-existent HomePod

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      • Eideen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Am only replying to you talking about some unrelated to the issue at hand. That is what they trying to say. Apple removes a feature that we all used, and only mad it only available for apple products.

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• endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nobody who gives a damn about artists being paid fairly and not swindled out of their already miniscule pay should use spotify.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t entirely buy this argument.

    In my experience, Spotify has made music accessible enough that I listen to thousands of hours per year, far more than anyone else I know. Vs before Spotify I couldn’t be bothered. Even assuming Spotify pays artists less than other mediums, there’s a point where the much higher listening rate is the better choice.

    I’m not especially hard core of a music listener so my attempts at other services were disappointing enough that I probably wouldn’t bother.

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    • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Idk its up to your morals. I am not fine with big labels getting a bigger cut, big labels getting even bigger cut by sneaking in fake artists with stock songs into most popular playlists, big labels getting an even bigger cut by having ai generated instrumentals make more revenue for them on the most mediocre platform with one of the lowest artist payouts. If that doesn’t bother you then keep using spotify.

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      • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Certainly the fake artists and ai crap bothers me, but I haven’t yet been knowingly affected by that. Most pop music sounds generated by ai anyway so what’s a few more.

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  • vermaterc@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If it wasn’t for Spotify, I wouldn’t know most of the artists I listen to now. They might receive little money from me listening to them, but it’s still more than they would receive if I didn’t knew about their existence.

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    • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Every streaming app has a reccomendation system, some are even betterand don’t lock you down into a genre to save money like spotifies. I found most of mine on soundcloud and now tidal is doing a better job. On spotify once a year weekly playlist had good fresh stuff. After i switched to tidal i discovered i had 4 ai generated songs/stock music peddled as real artists on my likes from Spotify reccomendations.

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