cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36348361
Soon: reels, shorts, videos and second hand underwear.
DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature.
Submitted 14 hours ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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Valmond@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
artyom@piefed.social 14 hours ago
They've had the first 3 for a while
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
which I hate… especially the “shorts”…
tween daughter has adhd, easily falls into tiktok brainrot hellholes. Has trouble with self-regulation and self-control… I still want her to have music to listen to and do things (some lofi to study/chill to, etc)… but now, Spotify is yet another vector for distraction that consumes her.
People be like “parent’s should take responsibility for their kids”… I’m like “mf, I’m trying, but every app in the world is trying to be social media” And the parental controls they offer are shiiiiiiiit. Because it’s not in a companies best interest to provide parents with tools to limit features.
Valmond@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
What the hell!
I was just kidding/projecting on a shitty future…
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Nope. AI chatbots. Can’t have chatbots without messaging.
george@feddit.org 13 hours ago
And Stories. Don’t forget stories
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Bring back the ruthless top 8 friends.
I just had my 8 variations of parodied Jesus.
Auth@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
When you see things like this remember that you’re paying for this. Stuff like this is why the price has gone up again.
They had a good thing near perfect but they kept adding useless features and bloating the app and price. I need to cancel this shit but my grandma loves it.
Luci@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Recently ditched Spotify, and you should too.
rozodru@piefed.social 13 hours ago
what alternative did you end up going with?
I had a script to convert my main Spotify playlist (5000+ songs) to download from soulseek but...yeah that would take a VERY long time and I really didn't feel like being a soulseek asshole going that route.
If there was something out there where I can take my spotify playlist and just convert it and use it on another/better platform I'd switch right now.
Nighed@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
I switched to Qobuz. They use soundiiz.com to migrate, I think it was free transfering to them?
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
I’ve been a happy Tidal user for years fwiw. The app is great as is music availability and discovery. I went back to Spotify for a while because I was missing its discovery features like discover weekly, but Tidal has greatly improved since then, and now features a daily discovery playlist (10 tracks, which I greatly prefer to Spotify’s weekly 30), plus 8 custom mixes based on genres you listen to. Track radio is also solid.
Also, it’s maybe the only subscription service that instead of creating new tiers, merged the two it had before into one, keeping the upper tier features at the lower tier cost
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Always looking for new members who love music :)
einkorn@feddit.org 13 hours ago
I am testing Deezer at the moment. To import playlists and songs, they advertise this 3rd party service, which worked for me.
compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
I am very happy with my recent switch from Spotify to TIDAL
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
I used something called spotDL, it grabs your music from youtube. I also had to get several thousand tracks, but it still found almost all of them. Didnt find maybe 50 out all those.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Apple music. High bitrate and aptx on android. And they pay artists more than Spotify. I moved over a while ago but I used some website to transfer over all my music.
apftwb@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’ve been saying for years the think Spotify needs are short form vertical format video clips. The whole “music” thing is a fad.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 hours ago
They already have that. So many songs have a short looping video instead of the album cover or static background when you have the screen open.
jim3692@discuss.online 4 hours ago
There was a short time period, during which Spotify would automatically start playing reel-like demos of song releases with audio, when you open the app.
Imagine following artists with explicit lyrics, and it starts blasting in the public, because you just wanted to show an album to your friends. Maybe I am wrong, but I think it also included artists that are popular in your area, which makes even worse, as a lot of people here listen drill music.
Luckily, they reverted the stupid change.
apftwb@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Oh yeah I forgot about that because I disabled it 2 minutes after seeing it for the first time.
rapidviperwiper@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Let me just listen to music please…
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I picked up some mp3 players with Bluetooth for about $7 each on aliexpress. Just finished acquiring my entire Spotify liked list. In my house, we’re getting back on the correct timeline.
ech@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
I gotta ask - why not just play the music on your phone?
rapidviperwiper@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Love that. How long did it take you?
Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
All I wanted was cd quality audio (which I’m willing to pay for)…
You know you’ve screwed up when the lazy people (me) actually get off their butts to switch.
Frozentea725@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
Ha same, just moved to quboz. The family plan is actually less
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Same. I would love to switch. Sadly many of my artists dont do physical Media:(
mwallace@jlai.lu 6 hours ago
Trying to do the same evil move as instagram to hook up people on your platform but you forgot you are a music streaming app 💀
Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Please let this be your sign to start ditching corporate platforms across the board. Enshitification will come for your pristine app experience eventually. Go spend your Spotify monthly bill on one album every month from bandcamp or something. Own your own media. Share it with friends. GET OFF CORPO AD PLATFORMS! I realize this is the fediverse, so people are already kind of on board, but I think music streaming is often given a pass, or sneaks by our focus when discussing these issues.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 hours ago
I’ve been telling people for years to buy 1-2 albums a month, and then after a couple years you have a sizable library. Spotify is renting.
But spotify is easy and fast, and some people think they listen to way more music than they do. I wonder how many people are paying spotify $10/month to listen to the same 4 albums for years.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
But spotify is easy and fast,
So you mean it’s convenient. That’s a valid reason. Evil shit aside, that’s literally why music streaming exploded the way it did.
superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
My wife is one of those people and I beg her over and over to just let me host her music.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
There’s something to be said for curated “auto” playlists, both for background and discovering stuff.
That being said, Pandora is waaaay better at this. So are free broadcasts/channels like Radio Paradise.
MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Still waiting for lossless……
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
I stopped using Spotify years ago and every time I hear about it I only get my decision further reinforced. What an absolutely cancerous company.
riskable@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Zawinski’s law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot expand are replaced by ones which can.
This is just the modern equivalent: Intra-site messaging.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Fuck Spotify. Pay better royalties
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Just finished a Tidal trial and really liked it.
TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
At least tidal pays the artists more
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
You may be right, but there are less shit services. I’ll try quoboz or deeper before giving my money to jackasses like Dorcey or Spotify owner funding AI weapons.
HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The post I was on 5 seconds ago was about imugur and how people where confused when they added posts and comments to the image hosting site. Everyone wants a poece of the social media pie…but we need the infrastructure, the websites that host stuff and do it free and efficiently.
Telorand@reddthat.com 14 hours ago
…the websites that host stuff and do it free and efficiently.
It’s never free. The instance you’re using isn’t free; it’s paid for by donations. ISPs and server hosts don’t just give bandwidth out of charity or for the public good. One way or another, these for-profit companies are getting their pound of flesh, typically by selling targeted ad space.
The fact that these companies are adding chat features means they’re now going to try mining conversations for additional consumer profile data points, which they can then sell to advertisers.
This new change is gross, and I hope nobody uses it.
dustyData@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Which they can sell to
advertisersLLM and AI companies.It’s not talked about too much, because it is not in the best interest of the stockholders. But AI as it was popularized by openAI and both images and text generators already reached a boundary of data availability. There’s no more human made data. They are now resorting to synthetic data, which is to make one first generation LLM model create tons of data to train newer or more tailored weighs models. With the issue that this new models develop problems from inbreeding of the data. Training models on other genAI products poisons the models and corrupts their generative power in just a few generations. This is why genAI images are increasingly turning yellow, the same reason newer models are more fragile and hallucinate or go psychotic more easily than old models. So, the AI companies need new sources of human made data to mix in with the synthetic data.
The main problem is that we ran out, there’s no more data made by humans to train AI with. Humans don’t create new data fast enough to train all the new models with the new doodads and features the AI companies want to sell. So now these companies will pay anything just to get their hands on new fresh stuff. These is why any app in the planet will now pivot to do anything they can to get chats going. It’s a new source of data to sell to data brokers.
Yaky@slrpnk.net 14 hours ago
Imgur had the social media element since mid-2010s at least, maybe longer.
artyom@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Yeah I'll never forget the first time I saw someone just casually browsing IMGUR and I was like WTF are you doing?
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
No.
On another note: Apple Music migration tool will finally help Spotify users switch
Telorand@reddthat.com 13 hours ago
Hot take: buy your music instead—direct from the artist whenever possible, or start building your collection from whatever you can find at a thrift store.
Auth@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
A lot of artists these days dont even sell their songs. Its kind of frustrating but soulseek is always there to fill that gap.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 13 hours ago
there's no music stores on the high seas, matey.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Yes definitely!
SeeFerns@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Tidal is much better anyway
floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Qobuz too. High-res audio, full CD booklets, metadata with full credits, pays the artists more.
SeeFerns@programming.dev 13 hours ago
Just checked it out, looks good and pays out really well!
TomMasz@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I noped the hell out of Spotify when I found out it was hosting the Joe Rogan podcast. It’s only enshittified even more since. And now this.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
There’s no room for growth! What are we going to do about it? IDK, so random shit that won’t get adopted to placate the VCs? Give that man a raise! (TGIF gift cards only. We are going to be hemorrhaging cash soon).
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 9 hours ago
You can connect to other people on Spotify?
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 12 hours ago
Have to justify those price increases somehow.
webjukebox@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Ugh, I hate when services stray from their original purpose and add random features. WhatsApp’s status thing isn’t so bad, but Spotify’s user messaging is just clutter. I just want to listen to music, you know? Maybe profiles for discovering new music are okay, but messaging? Nah, not needed. Keep it simple, music only.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
That’s absolutely insane that there’s 3B+ people on Facebook. I honestly don’t believe that number is accurate at all.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I think it’s both. There are an unbelievable number of people on Facebook, and there are also a TON of bots and inauthentic users. Meta has every incentive to exaggerate their numbers and permit bad actors (at least up to the point that real users are driven away). Same goes for all corporate social media.
theneverfox@pawb.social 10 hours ago
Everyone. Damn near everyone has a phone at this point, Facebook even handed them out to keep the user numbers growing at one point
People who live in dirt floor huts walk to churches or other gathering places to charge them. The cheapest smart phones are essentially worthless, so there’s no point stealing or selling them.
And cell service isn’t all that expensive to run, so it’s priced to what people will pay
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 6 hours ago
The logos for Instagram and WhatsApp are interchanged.
CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
WHY?!?
(yes, I know it is data mining, but still)
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
close enough. welcome back, iTunes Ping