Ha! Fuck. That.
Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK
Submitted 2 months ago by QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
r_deckard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
www.live365.com/listen
No account or subscription required.
Hundreds of internet radio stations. Some are ad-supported, some are ad-free but you can contribute to the station’s patreon.
obvs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I switched to Qobuz about two weeks ago. I’ve been really impressed.
Prethoryn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is this FOSS? Is it on GitHub or can I get it from another app store like F-Droid?
Waryle@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Nope, it’s a Spotify alternative made in France which emphasize on paying a fair share to the artists and providing a great music quality.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, it’s 13€/month (first month free)
GTG3000@programming.dev 2 months ago
…funnily enough, it may actually be better for musicians if people left spotify, considering the absolute pennies they pay per stream.
Mondez@lemdro.id 2 months ago
You aren’t wrong, it is the government’s ham fisted and poorly thought out legislation… I fact the last government’s that this one inexplicably pushed on with despite it not being anything like a priority for the electorate. I’m frankly shocked at how many unforced errors this government is making given how “not being as rubbish as the last lot” was not a high bar to clear.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LOL ‘Spotify fans’ buch of losers
darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Jokes on them. My m4a library reaches 1000’s easily
Kissaki@feddit.org 2 months ago
Thousands of megabytes!
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Ngl, right now I’m endevouring to acquire more music in digital file format rather than streaming right now. Spotify is great, especially when your looking for individual songs that you’ll only listen to a handful of times, and for discovering music, but once you lose access to it you’re pretty fucked.
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
At this point even the music discovery is being enshitified with AI bands taking up more and more space as low-cost filler.
The last 10 years of the internet are committing seppuku in front of us. Gird your musical loins, friend. We’ll need jams in MP3 format in the dystopian hellscape that’s rushing to meet us.
Victoriathecompact@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I use Tidal, which pays artists even better
elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What do you think of Qobuz? From what I’ve seen, it’s got more stuff than bandcamp (at least from my library). It seems to pay the artists well too.
haloduder@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
I just use Pandora for radio and youtube for specific songs.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Never had a Spotify account, and I never will. I have apple one, but Im kinda forced into that because of the other half. But if Apple pulls this shit, Im not paying for it. I VPN everything, but I still wont support any company that complies with this bullshit with my money.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Way easier to arrr!
MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
I have never in my entire life paid for a streaming service. I didn’t stop pirating when Netflix was the only game in town and cost $8 / month. I didn’t pay for streaming even when every normie started getting internet access and “everyone was doing it”. Even during the high point of my life where I was more than gainfully employed and accumulating savings I STILL never had a streaming service. Unless you count the self hosting spotify clone I made but I’m not paying money or supporting people with different ideological beliefs than me in order to use it so that really doesn’t count.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Back in the day, Grooveshark was the king before all these subscription guys showed up.
art@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Who could have guessed this very obvious a most expected outcome?! Not Spotify, I guess.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Is this just a thing for free users? I’ve not seen anything on there.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean… I’m already using Nicotine+ (Soulseek).
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I need a cheap mp3 player
Doorbook@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They dont care about music, they want to make sure you are not listening to podcast they dont like.
vane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not sure about all those political experiments in the internet. Maybe they just don’t like HTTP ? Maybe it’s time to make HTTP to join BBS ?
jerry584@programming.dev 1 month ago
I am using Spotify Premium. I am using Premium because I want ad free listening.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do it
roserose56@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Do it! I challenge you! People nowdays won’t drop an every day thing just like that.
biofaust@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Does Spotify really have “fans”? Or maybe just users? And what user spends time “threatening” piracy, if they know how to do it?
Also, I realized only last month that my younger brother doesn’t know how to use torrents. Shame on me for having left home too early!
goatinspace@feddit.org 2 months ago
Arr!!! Me hearty
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Does anyone have a good podcast app to replace Spotify that will keep track of progress across multiple devices? Bonus points if I can self host.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Antennapod with gPodderersync & Nextcloud? There are podcast apps for Nextcloud to play in the browser.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thanks, this did it. Opodsync (since I don’t have nextcloud) and antennapod.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I use audiobookshelf. Obviously for audiobooks mainly, but it does podcasts and it works well.
Ashiggan@eviltoast.org 2 months ago
I always used podcast player. Never had any issues before.
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.podcast…