It’s 2025, and Spotify still doesn’t offer lossless audio. Don’t understand why anyone would keep using it with so many alternatives available.
Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs
Submitted 9 hours ago by abobla@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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iasmina2007@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
JWBananas@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Clearly most people care more about other factors than they do about audio quality that isn’t even discernable through their Bluetooth earbuds.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 8 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
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Just switched from iPhone to Android. If your Bluetooth headphones support aptx you can definitely hear the difference
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 7 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.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
It’s not the artist exploitation or they’re generally predatory practices, no, it’s the lossless audio that really got your attention lmfao
weaselsrippedmyflesh@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
Not OP, but probably all of those still register, only he was using lossless audio as an example of how it’s not even that good comparing with other platforms who actually do better by the artists they host. As in, a lot of people are willing to turn a blind eye to unethical practices if the product is great, but it’s not even that great, comparing with other existing services. Whether or not people actually do care about lossless audio is a different thing, though.
MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The recommendations are hard to beat, but I hate how these moderns treating platforms make you a passive listener. My most enjoyable music listening days were when I actively managed my music collection.
iasmina2007@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I haven’t even thought about recommendations - I’ve never used the recommendation system on any music streaming platform. I’m fully hands-on with my music. I actively use the internet to discover new artists and curate my own playlists and library.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
I use it because it’s free and tolerable when modded (on pc at least), and a lot of my favorite artists drop there. I get to check new releases, and if something isn’t there I’ll check other platforms. I will never pay for spotify on principle though.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I am interested in alternatives. I stopped paying for Spotify when they were pushing Joe Rogan so hard, and YouTube Music isn’t really doing it for me for a variety of reasons. Any good suggestions?
prongs@lemm.ee 5 minutes ago
This is a bigger change, but I switched to Bandcamp and listen to music I own. I like the process of finding music I like and saving it to my wishlist, and I mass-purchase whenever Bandcamp Friday comes around so the artist gets the whole paycheck.
It depends how much music you listen to though, and how much variety you need day to day. Realise it’s a bit more involved than algorithm based streaming but I also feel a lot more like I’ve built a library just for me.
iasmina2007@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I use Apple Music, and I’ve also tried Tidal and Deezer. They’re all good. I recommend taking advantage of the one-month free trials each service offers and seeing which one you prefer. At the end of the day, it really comes down to personal preference.
restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I would also recommend Pandora. I’ve had a family plan for years so I don’t know for sure but there used to be a free (ad supported) tier that you could check out. And to reiterate comments from above, custom playlists and song/album play on demand is available (though some tracks are only available in discovery mode).
Smoolak@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I second this.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
BossDj@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
At least in the US, I’m absolutely destroyed that people just don’t care. They talk like they care, but they just fucking don’t. I don’t get it at all. They will gripe about how evil and bad something is, then just keep using it. “If everyone else is, so will I” maybe. Group Inertia.
workerONE@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
People don’t care to help fight the war on drugs
pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
Legal drugs should not be advertised either. Drugs or other treatments should be prescribed by a doctor based on a review of the actual symptoms and side effects to the patient. A drug advertisement will generally tell you the key words to tell the doctor and may be missing other factors.
I have symptoms C, L and Q. What treatment plan will be best. Vs. I want drug X because I have symptoms X Y and Z.
Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com 4 hours ago
Why would people here care that much about this? This kind of material exists on any site that allows user submitted content, and the only solution is aggressive automated moderation, which winds up hurting everyday users. Would you prefer that anyone who uploads a song or podcast that names a drug be automatically removed and have to be manually approved?
These are low-effort scams to steal credit card numbers, it doesn’t seem like any of these had an actual avenue to purchase drugs. They should be removed for sure, but this is hardly some wild breach of responsibility.
orclev@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I 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 5 hours 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.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 7 hours ago
🌈 Enshittification 🌈
4am@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
Enshittification is not when Spotify doesn’t immediately notice and purge new uploads with scam content.
Enshittification is when Spotify takes away the free-tier, or makes the ad-free tier have limited ads while raising the price.
Wigners_friend@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
So they realised Spotify hosts Joe Rogan?