Submitted 16 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists
Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging
I don’t mind sourcing my own music, but what I want is to be suggested songs based on what I listen to. My musical horizons have broadened a lot thanks to that.
Gnod
Last.fm?
Pandora is still pretty good.
Where do like… buy… music?
I do it on Bandcamp.
Bandcamp, qobuz, amazon
for anyone this inspires to make the jump, i recommend Tidal and Bandcamp.
They is also Mirlo which plan to federate
Link please ?
Never even heard of Mirlo until now. Neat! Thank you for shining a light on it.
Nice.
Looking at tidal, there doesn’t appear to be a way to search for music? Am I losing it?
Edit: you have to login first. Honestly, bad first impression already.
Spotify doesn’t even let you into the app without logging in
Throwing out Stingray for people who often just need background music. Radio like music channels.
👀
I set up a Funkwhale but tbh it is feature-poor
Which would you suggest as a selfhost alternative ?
Become a developer & contribute code
I was literally one day away from jumping onto Tidal, but then they dropped Plex integration. 😕
Mp3s are at it. Because Spotty doesn’t have some of the songs I actually like, and even remove tracks that were previously available on physical media.
I’ve been downloading FLAC (lossless), and when I transfer to my phone, I encode to Opus, which is supposed to have better sound quality than MP3 at comparable file sizes.
Bought myself a little digital audio player (basically the new name for mp3 players) and have been enjoying porting rockbox to it / listening to my local library.
There's a still a few cd/record stores in town which is pretty awesome for second hand stuff.
Good for them. Bands don’t need ai training on their songs without compensation.
I started buying music in 2015 (mostly Bandcamp) and I have no regrets. I have a big library now of drm free music. Some months I spend nothing and still enjoy music, without ads.
As a hoarder, I spend more time listening to new music than not, and Spotify’ features and personalized discovery algorithms help tremendously with that.
These days more and more AI songs are creeping into my Spotify and I notice them. That has caused me to be suspicious of every song I hear enough that even when I find a good real song, the enjoyment is undercut by that constant underlying feeling of “this could be AI” even though I know it isn’t.
I’m absolutely livid and disgusted at Spotify for making me feel that way. Discovery was the one thing keeping me on that wretched platform. I imagine I’ll be slowly migrating to a self-hosted solution. I just really wish foss had more private and open personalized discovery features (or any at all for that matter, and not just for music).
yt-dlp, ffmpeg, Picard, jellyfin, musicolet
Spotify’s personalized stations kept me hooked for years but it was surprising how fast I got used to creating stations based on individual songs or artists in Apple Music, and eventually I do think I’m go back to having a music collection again, but it’s going to take time out of my week to collect and organize music again… in my 40s time is no easy feat
I want to jump ship it’s just daunting when the other platforms I try can’t match the library. I ported a small playlist to Qobuz and only a third of the tracks were available. I have an offline library but I have been lazy and its unmaintained.
Try Tidal. At least it pays artists more and has better sound quality. Allegedly. The downside is that their catalogue is more messed up like albums from different same named artists grouped together.
Yeah, I think I’ll be jumping ship soon … like most people mention … at one point you only listen to the same 100-200 tracks all the time anyway.
JackFM, runs a radio station 24x7, 365, on about 300 songs.
The real trick is making playlists that repeat properly. You need a couple of bangers and then a bunch of supporting stuff that was good, but isn’t ear warm worthy, matching beats and genre then flow into the next selection set.
Soma radios 80s underground playlist feels the same, but I love it.
What are your thoughts about old music, should it be pirateable? I mean I don’t think those 1990 bands will get a cent from Spotify, or do they?
It would be lovely sharing songs with fellow online people IMO.
Bands? No or at least not all of them. Labels? Certain!
I jumped ship about a year ago or whenever it was they signed on Joe Rogan. Now my policy is no subscriptions and only by DRM free. So mostly bandcamp and garage sale CDs for me. If there was a record shop within 70 miles I’d probably hit that up too but unfortunately not an option.
im on yt music,
it’s now flooded with AI music, going to cancel
Also it funds Google which is … not ideal
if only there was a stremio for music.
(is there?)
Streaming is all the bad things about the music industry but made a thousand times worse. The pay outs, the requirement of specific laws surrounding streaming that make it different than every other method of music delivery, the lack of control by the consumer, the lack of any kind of ownership, the requirement of always online connectivity, and on.
I don't want to be that boomer type person, but I'm pretty happy with staying with my CD and DVD collection that I have. I have a massive amount of portability, archiving, and it just works wherever I want to work. No fees, no internet required, and I have an immense amount of control over everything.
This is just one of those things that I'm glad that I didn't get into this. It has sounded terrible since it was first pitched and I think it's only gotten worse.
And no one in their right mind thinks it is a death wish to actual people, but to everything horrible it embodies.
I did this 3 years ago.
I finally made the jump to tidal this month, my subscription to Spotify is running out. I hate giving my money to Spotify. Yeah, tidal ain’t perfect, yet. But I hope with more people joining, it’s going to be better soon
My biggest grip with Tidal is that their catalogue is a mess - albums from same named artists grouped together.
What if I block all its ads?
The Big problem I have now is. I have a Vinyl collection, and I enjoy listening to music (many different things) whenever I feel like it. The Spotify app itself is just so nice. Integrates well with my car, and I have a few huge playlists. Much of this music I bought already physically. But if I were to switch to a different app I feel like I need to change alot more, and in the example of Bandcamp i would have to pay a large sum to get my playlist back up.
Also. I have gotten so used to it and so tired of trying to do the right thing. I just want to listen to some music ffs.
I switched to deezer and it wasn’t too painful.
Its not fast, but physical media does have the benefit of being able to be digitized
I used a free online service to rip my Spotify playlists to MP3s. Now what? (for Android)
Musicolet
You have a bunch of mp3s? Just add them to an app that plays mp3s like Winamp
If you just want to play music locally without hassles, there are a slew of music apps that can do it for you, my personal favorite is Musicolet.
If you wanna get fancy you could always spin up your own music server with navidrome, and combine that with the android app Symfonium (what i currently do). If you don’t like the idea of always streaming your music, for example if you have bad internet service outside your home, you can temporarily or permanently cache music to your phone.
Navidrome + any of a number of subsonic players
I buy individual songs on iTunes, I can back them up without DRM to my NAS.
I dislike the entire concept of renting my music.
Since I started using an iPhone back in 2016, I have bought 781 songs, songs that I don’t have to pay to access.
I can respect this practice, but in fairness, that’s like $1000+ of music purchases. Most people can’t just drop their $10/mo or whatever it is subscription and suddenly buy all the songs they want to listen to.
Not an mpd, not interested.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 minutes ago
Is there another service that has anything comparable to Spotify’s family plan? I have like 4 other people on the family plan I pay for and I really don’t wanna fuck them over by switching lol
simbico@lemmy.zip 3 minutes ago
I’m switching to Tidal, they have a family plan