Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs

• solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i dumped spotify because they raised the price so they could include podcasts that i couldn’t give less of a rat’s ass about. also the ai bullshit and the refusal to allow me to block artists. spotify can get fucked

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Streaming sites not including the option to block content is frustrating.

    I remember when Netflix let you hide individual movies so they didn’t clutter up the categories. When it was removed there was a rumor that giving it a low score would hide it but that never worked for me. Don’t even remember the other services offering an option to hide stuff.

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    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can still do that on YouTube.

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t think of youtube as a streaming site for some reason. Maybe because I only interact with it on a computer and the others through TVs even though everything can go through both.

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  • JordanZ@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Raised the price for podcasts, raised the price for audiobooks. Guys, I just want a music service…

    Then as you mentioned…no ability to block artists or songs. I honestly believe that not listening to a particular song by an artist you otherwise like made it shows up even more in radio/shuffle play. Can’t you guys clue into the fact that I skip that track EVERY time you start playing it.

    People made alternate desktop clients to customize the homepage cause they were unwilling. The mobile app wasn’t so lucky. Again…my home page doesn’t need to be podcasts, audio books and artists I’ve never listened to but are obviously being boosted but paid promotions.

    When they started throwing up full page dialog popups recommending the most ridiculous not even close to what I listen to content multiple times a listening session…I was out. Didn’t just cancel premium, deleted the account and uninstalled the apps. I’m not paying you to actively annoy the shit out of me.

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  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I never moved from pandora to Spotify and could never find a good reason to.

    I realize I’m a decade out of the loop, but what did it do better?

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    • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i never used pandora–is it true you can’t make your own playlists? that would be a no go for me. i switched to tidal and have no complaints

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      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Pandora was initially antithetical to playlists, the concept was utilizing the music genome project to play songs that are like songs you’ve like.

        Playlists probably was the thing Spotify had that pandora didn’t have that made Spotify get big, you can make playlists now.

        I only use pandora because it’s music discovery is so good tbh.

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• Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah seriously; unless you’re an audiophile who spends extra on quality headphones, your Bluetooth buds are probably using the SBC codec, which cuts off frequencies at 16kHz and thus is hardly better than listening to a 128Kbps MP3. (In Android you can see what codec your headphones are using by going into the developer options.)

  And to be honest, if you care enough about sound quality to spend extra on the high res tier in your streaming service of choice, you’re probably using wired headphones. Audiophiles don’t fuck with Bluetooth.

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• Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  it’s the social features and the network effect. if you want to make a playlist and share it with your friends the easiest way to get them to listen to it is to host it on spotify. also blends, collaborative playlist, jams, and now listening all provide the illusion of connection through a shared listening experience. and it’s not so much that these things are better than what we used to have for sharing music, it’s that corporations have all killed our ways of sharing music. that’s what they really hated about groove shark. artists made more money in the groove shark era, but umg, sony, and warner didn’t control how we shared on it.

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• steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just switched from iPhone to Android. If your Bluetooth headphones support aptx you can definitely hear the difference

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