cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36348361
Recently ditched Spotify, and you should too.
DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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Luci@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
rozodru@piefed.social 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
I switched to Qobuz. They use soundiiz.com to migrate, I think it was free transfering to them?
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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
einkorn@feddit.org 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
I am very happy with my recent switch from Spotify to TIDAL
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Always looking for new members who love music :)
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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.
insight06@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would gladly have you leech 5000 songs off me in Soulseek if it meant Spotify was losing a customer.
mapleseedfall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
dimjim@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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.
rapidviperwiper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Let me just listen to music please…
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
I gotta ask - why not just play the music on your phone?
rapidviperwiper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Love that. How long did it take you?
exu@feditown.com 2 weeks ago
What did you use to acquire your Spotify music? They cleaned a lot of software that could do that a while ago.
Auth@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
JordanZ@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Once they brought on Podcasts and wouldn’t stop shoving Joe Rogan on every screen I absolutely cancelled. I never listened to a single podcast on there yet they were the overwhelming majority of my recommendations. I was also getting annoyed with the random pop-ups of ‘hey wanna try this band that sounds absolutely nothing like anything you’ve ever listened to on our platform before?’…nope! Didn’t need Audible either. The price just kept going up…like guys, I want a music app. That’s it. Nothing else.
Uninstalled Spotify over a year(or 2 or 3?) ago…don’t really miss it.
nialv7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am not paying for this :)
you shouldn’t either
Auth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have to because my grandma spent so much effort learning how to use it and she loves it.
mlg@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
It’s a good thing that people refuse to download Whatsapp/Meta crap
Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Same. I would love to switch. Sadly many of my artists dont do physical Media:(
Frozentea725@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Ha same, just moved to quboz. The family plan is actually less
apftwb@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Oh yeah I forgot about that because I disabled it 2 minutes after seeing it for the first time.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You can turn this off in the settings.
riskable@programming.dev 3 weeks 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.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Internet company invents a whole new way to receive unsolicited pictures of genitals
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Fuck Spotify. Pay better royalties
Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Why
roserose56@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
NSFW bots sending you spam links and crypto scammers. Yea !!!
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Did a Google engineer make his way to Spotify
HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Imgur had the social media element since mid-2010s at least, maybe longer.
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah I'll never forget the first time I saw someone just casually browsing IMGUR and I was like WTF are you doing?
mwallace@jlai.lu 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Just finished a Tidal trial and really liked it.
TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
At least tidal pays the artists more
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
No.
On another note: Apple Music migration tool will finally help Spotify users switch
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 weeks 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.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
there's no music stores on the high seas, matey.
Auth@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Yes definitely!
rezad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
every platform becomes at the end.
ZiemekZ@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or Snapchat, or Instagram, doesn’t matter. Remember memes like “Microsoft Office will now have Stories”?
rezad@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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”
MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Still waiting for lossless……
StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
SeeFerns@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Tidal is much better anyway
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Qobuz too. High-res audio, full CD booklets, metadata with full credits, pays the artists more.
SeeFerns@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Just checked it out, looks good and pays out really well!
spookedintownsville@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And they still don’t offer 2FA.
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
Thanks, but I would rather gnaw of my own feet
TomMasz@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
close enough. welcome back, iTunes Ping
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’d prefer it if they fixed the app so it doesn’t play random shit and subscriptions and notifications actually work.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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).
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Have to justify those price increases somehow.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Soon: reels, shorts, videos and second hand underwear.
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
They've had the first 3 for a while
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
What the hell!
I was just kidding/projecting on a shitty future…
george@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
And Stories. Don’t forget stories
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Bring back the ruthless top 8 friends.
I just had my 8 variations of parodied Jesus.
lando55@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
What like in Jira?
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nope. AI chatbots. Can’t have chatbots without messaging.
MrLLM@ani.social 2 weeks ago
UK identity verification will finally make sense
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