cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36348361
I’d prefer it if they fixed the app so it doesn’t play random shit and subscriptions and notifications actually work.
DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature.
Submitted 7 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How has nobody used to mention that this ALREADY used to be a feature they had before they killed it. I remember in high school me and the girl I was dating used to send eachother playlists. I didn’t even know spotify had killed the feature until I went looking for one of those playlists in my inbox that used to be there.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Why
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Internet company invents a whole new way to receive unsolicited pictures of genitals
NeutralFlame@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Taking a page out of googles play book are we?
spookedintownsville@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And they still don’t offer 2FA.
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.org 7 months ago
Thanks, but I would rather gnaw of my own feet
rezad@lemmy.world 7 months ago
every platform becomes at the end.
ZiemekZ@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Or Snapchat, or Instagram, doesn’t matter. Remember memes like “Microsoft Office will now have Stories”?
rezad@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My post was not supposed to be that TikTok specifically is bad. my point was every platform (that uses attention as money generator) would eventually be some kind of short videos with emulate pov of user (vertical interface instead of TV horizontal interface) that encourage “engagements”
roserose56@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
NSFW bots sending you spam links and crypto scammers. Yea !!!
mlg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
People will use every one of these horrendous messaging subapps but scoff at the idea of downloading signal or even whatsapp.
tatann@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s a good thing that people refuse to download Whatsapp/Meta crap
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
close enough. welcome back, iTunes Ping
MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Still waiting for lossless……
Auth@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
nialv7@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I am not paying for this :)
you shouldn’t either
Auth@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have to because my grandma spent so much effort learning how to use it and she loves it.
apftwb@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months 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.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You can turn this off in the settings.
jim3692@discuss.online 7 months 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 7 months ago
Oh yeah I forgot about that because I disabled it 2 minutes after seeing it for the first time.
mwallace@jlai.lu 7 months 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 💀
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Just finished a Tidal trial and really liked it.
TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
At least tidal pays the artists more
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 7 months 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.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 7 months 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).
Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 7 months ago
You can connect to other people on Spotify?
Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months 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 7 months ago
Ha same, just moved to quboz. The family plan is actually less
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Same. I would love to switch. Sadly many of my artists dont do physical Media:(
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 7 months 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.
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 7 months ago
Have to justify those price increases somehow.
webjukebox@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
TomMasz@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 7 months ago
The logos for Instagram and WhatsApp are interchanged.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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
CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 7 months ago
WHY?!?
(yes, I know it is data mining, but still)
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
No.
On another note: Apple Music migration tool will finally help Spotify users switch
Telorand@reddthat.com 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
there's no music stores on the high seas, matey.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Yes definitely!
riskable@programming.dev 7 months 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.
Luci@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Recently ditched Spotify, and you should too.
dimjim@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Same! It decided ‘fuck em all’ and just downloaded all my music locally. It took some time to find a decent music player, but ended up with Musicolet, it’s a fantastic local music player. The way I see it, I’ve paid for Spotify for years, so I don’t feel bad about downloading all the music I had on there. Any new music I want I’ll just straight up buy myself.
rozodru@piefed.social 7 months 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.
insight06@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I would gladly have you leech 5000 songs off me in Soulseek if it meant Spotify was losing a customer.
mapleseedfall@lemmy.world 7 months ago
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Always looking for new members who love music :)
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 7 months 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.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months 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
compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I am very happy with my recent switch from Spotify to TIDAL
Nighed@feddit.uk 7 months ago
I switched to Qobuz. They use soundiiz.com to migrate, I think it was free transfering to them?
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 7 months 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.
einkorn@feddit.org 7 months ago
I am testing Deezer at the moment. To import playlists and songs, they advertise this 3rd party service, which worked for me.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Did a Google engineer make his way to Spotify