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I have got to admit I canned Spotify subs years ago - but how are they managing to grow their subscriber base whn it is now going to be £11.99 in the UK? That is way, way too high for what it offers…
Cool I can’t pay any less than the zero I currently am subscribed at to not use their service
fuck Spotify, I only listen to downloaded flac and mp3 music and YouTube
gotta give even more money to joe fuckhead
Meanwhile the new Seagate 26tb HDD is going for $270
www.bestbuy.com/site/…/6614708.p?skuId=6614708&re…
I’ve been downloading my media for over 10 years now and I only have like 2 1/2 Terabytes filled, a 26tb drive could hold most people’s lifetime media collections.
Owning your own storage and files is the only way to ensure you keep access to the media you want.
Seagate
Well I am happy to have cancelled this shit a few months ago
I got a subscription two months ago because I had an event where it was simply easier to just use Spotify. I’m going back to plexamp I guess.
I’ve had a grudge against Spotify waaaayyyy back when it first launched as an app on the computer.
For some reason, the Spotify app on my Mac wasted a ton of resources and battery. And it made me so mad I’ve never used them since.
Then years later they made dumbass Joe Rogan the face of the company so fuck all that.
Two things come to mind, spotify was always a browser based app on mac/linux/windows, I think that was way more inefficient in the early days of doing apps that way. The other thing is that spotify originally used its users’ computers as cache to serve other users, that might’ve caused some additional load.
I cancelled it when they started to crack down on family plans with separate households. At that point it just wasn’t worth the money to me anymore. I wonder how much more price hikes the remaining customers are going to tolerate. At some point it becomes cheaper to just outright buy music…
Probably is cheaper for a lot of people who just listen to the same stuff week after week
And yet, despite the subscription price or its raise, Spotify still insists on forcing promoted content on your homepage.
I use Bandcamp when I want to buy and YouTube with ad blocker for streaming.
Military defence is expensive
spotify lost me as a customer as soon as I learned that they gifted 150k to Trump for his inaugaration party
I will cancel it
Spotify has a become a shit show lately. I don’t like that the CEO is supporting a a genocidal state, the platform is full of fake AI artists and playlists. Artists aren’t getting paid enough. the prices hikes and the app just feels so bloated with unnecessary bullshit. Because of this, I switched to self hosting my own music server (Navidrome, and Lidarr) and I use the symphonium app o Android. Really happy with that solution
Music costs??
Just leaving this here from the excellent !PurchaseWithPurpose@lemmy.world Image
Platform podcasters who spread misinformation
Lol just say you don’t like Joe Rogan
From that chart Qobuz seems to be the all round best deal. Is there any catch?
I use Qobuz! It works well most the time. And it has a huge library. Some things are not as polished as some of the bigger companies. And there’s a lot of Initial setup to get it working…
That said, I would say it’s a great option. I do wish it had better continuous play options, as sometimes I listen to a playlist, and then it just stops. But that may be part of the learning curve. I’m not really a big “playlists” guy… I’d like to start a radio and have it find similar artists (similar to Pandora 12 years ago) But that doesn’t really seem to be the way companies are going anymore.
I have several Google mini devices (I know, I know. I’m working on it, but that’s a whole other process) and they don’t really seem to get along with qobuz all the time.
Overall, I like it, but it still needs work.
anything to sustain the hateful joe roegan podcasts on the platform.
ive been using apple music for years, mainly like how for edm it tends to have highquality recorded live sets for all djs, and they are seperated instead of being one long continuous track, like youll get
And?
Friendly reminder that your “legally acquired” library of FLAC files never raises its subscription prices!
I will never part from locally stored music. I do, however, would love to have my collection run through a recommendation algorithm for discovering new music.
Would scrobbling to e.g. ListenBrainz (or last fm) be an option for you for discovery?
Yep. Hooray for self hosting!
spotify pays me half a cent per stream, the profit margins for them must be fucking insane. and the music sounds like shit. I’d much rather people pirate it than support these leeches
if you want to support artists you like, buy the music, ideally on bandcamp. if you do have to steam it, Deezer at the very least won’t vandalize the audio
What do you think about Qobuz as a musician?
They have prices? People are paying? 🤔🏴☠️🦜
People pay corporations for music? Morons.
There is a ReVanced version of Spotify, for people who didn’t already know. Block ads and get premium features for free: revanced.app
(There’s also YT Music ReVanced)
I heard the ReVanced patching stopped working recently. Is that not the case anymore?
Not sure cause I use YT Music ReVanced instead for the larger music selection.
I used that for the longest time, but lately it stops working several days after I update it. I’m glad though, as now I have Navidrome set up.
If you are going to steal music you may as well just steal music
Blocking ads isn’t stealing
Can’t I just go with piracy
This is more convenient than piracy.
Wow, thank you!
Spotify is still a thing?! Who knew… so many better options out there… hoping they crumble between artists leaving and no one wanting to deal with the drama and prices… they are about to be the “new vine” of pitfall and demise! Bye bye bye! Let the company burn!!
What better options are there? I’m old so don’t know
if you don’t mind downloading the music then Nictoine+, it’s a GUI for soulseek. essentially Napster/Limewire. Anything you can get on spotify you can pretty much get there.
Keep in mind, like Napster, it takes time to find things you want. If you have your own server or hell even a cloud server with unlimited bandwidth and a good chunk of space you can put your music on there that way you can just stream it to whatever device you use to listen to music. Essentially a media server.
I have Apple Music because I am a student so I pay way less than most but it downloads all my songs and playlists and can use it without data. But I also have the iHeartradio app which has my fave radio station plus so many podcasts.
But there is Apple Music, Tidal, iHeartradio, Soundcloud, Amazon Music, SiriusFM, qobuz, there are many.
Third one in a little over two years. They say it’s to keep up with inflation as if they’re a retail store operating on razor thin margins and people accept that.
You mean replacing a bunch of people with AI didn’t work?
Never will. All the tech bros can stomp and wine. But it will never replace real people with real skills. It’s fucking stupid that these business majors can dictate stupid decisions.
hornedfiend@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
What an awful website. You either sell your soul or you throw away your money. No thanks, I will stick to the post title.