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orclev@lemmy.world 1 month agoI think it’s more that most people just aren’t aware of any equivalent alternatives, or in some cases like where there literally aren’t any alternatives. Look at phones, both Apple and Google suck and their mobile OSes are terrible but what’s the alternative? Sure there’s a few Linux phones out there and that’s almost an alternative but it’s not there yet. You could go with a “dumb” phone, but for most people that’s not going to work. So you pick your lesser evil and bitch about it whenever the latest round of enshitification hits.
If you asked most people what alternatives exist for Spotify they’d probably say Pandora, and maybe Apple Music or Youtube Music and then struggle to come up with anything else. The better alternatives are suffering from a massive discovery problem.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What’s an example of an alternative with a really great recommendation algorithm?
Things like recommendation algorithms are difficult for small companies/individuals to provide. Lets alone the library of music.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Since you asked, in the US at least I would say Tidal’s is quite good. Not a small company, but an alternative.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
No algorithm but buying physical media again is one path.
A few months ago I got a couple CDs and I’m hoping to rebuild my collection and get off Spotify. It supports artists better, and YouTube is still there to help discover new music.
Buy a CD a month instead of your service. A roll back for technology of course, but worth trying imo
Our musician are getting fucked with streaming services
ripcord@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That dossn’t seem like “one path” if it’s almost the exact opposite of what they were saying.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Fine, yes. I was just throwing an idea out there. I don’t know how to pirate shit anymore, and am to an age where I can afford to support artists directly, so if one can, one should.
Where did the music to pirate come from back in the day? Was it not uploaded from a CD and then file shared?
I did learn in this thread there are numerous other streaming services I was completely unaware of, so thats cool
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Plexamp does a pretty good job with the radio features, granted you will have to torrent stuff you’re not necessarily familiar with first. If you have a few friends who also share their music libraries with you it can really help by including their tracks in your radios.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Wait, PlexAmp allows for multiple libraries?
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Settings > playback > radio > include external media
“Consider tracks from shared servers and TiDAL”
Also if you just mean multiple libraries like switching between them, click at the top. I’ve got 4 of my own and 1 from a friend here.
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