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From the shitty artist compensation, to the AI content, to their exclusive deals with Joe Rogan you need another reason to stop using Spotify???
Don't forget their donation to Trump's campaign!
I used Spotify premium apk for near a decade. They shut down the modded apks so I stopped using them. Not a terrible service honestly, given I didn't pay them a dime.
Modded apks still going strong.. 🤫
spotify already has a propaganda arm of trump, aka JOE ROEGAN podcasts.
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Android user from India. Only other alternatives available here are Amazon Prime and Apple Music.
and they are trying to move to videos to, which i assume would be giving podcast/video to the viewers to draw in more subscribers for ROEGAN.
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Either buy the albums from the musicians or pirate that shit and just pay to see them in concert. Fuck all these companies.
Pirate it, and send $10 to the band.
Pirate it, and send $10 to the band.
Most members of The Band are dead now though.
In that case, send nothing, since they only ones still profiting are the greedy Labels keeping the music from becoming public IP anyway
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I pirate things to see if I like them, and if I like them, I buy the CD and a t-shirt or something from the musician's website.
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Paying for music - in a world where the artist gets almost nothing and it's all wasted on middle-men- is unethical. Music is art and even without the industry there would still be making music for free. Pirate your favorite and donate the money to a local good cause
Tomorrow is Bandcamp friday people.
In case anyone isn't aware, this means that Bandcamp won't take their usual cut, so the artist gets more money from each sale. It's this Friday only.
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I left Spotify when they tried to force tiktok ui update out of nowhere and I wasn't even paying for it
Spotdl is a command line program that is easy to use, you just need to feed it the playlist link and it will download all the songs off YouTube.
You can then self host with azuracast or airsonic. Azuracast is what I use but it makes it into a radio station more or less, sonic I think is more of a spotify clone. There are a few other options.
The subscription fee can then be used to support your favorite small time artists through other means, without the middle man.
Seriously, just torrent your music, downloading songs off YouTube sounds like an awful idea, automated or not.
Yt downloads are just copy and paste a link, and the quality doesn't really matter for anything I own, no audiofile gear.
Yes, Spotify is not an ethical company. However, I would argue that Europe achieving defense independence from the US military industrial complex is a good thing. Germany is just two doors down from Russia.
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My producer, Neigsendoig, uses Wavlake. I'd be happy to provide a link if you all are interested.
I’ve had it with these streaming platforms. I now rely solely on RED for downloading and finding new music (their top 10 page is very solid). To stream I use navidrome.
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Is there another music streaming service around, so I can leave? I use it damn near everyday and the accessibility is what I crave.
I use a Revanced YouTube Music app that doesn't play any ads, and it functions almost exactly like Spotify.
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I switched to Tidal a couple years ago and I'm happy enough with it. It's cheaper than the comparable membership tier I was paying for with Spotify. The higher fidelity streaming is nice and supposedly it pays artists the most over any other steaming service. Their recommendation algorithm doesn't index so heavily on your favorite tracks like Spotify's does, so I'm discovering new music a lot more.
The UX isn't quite as smooth as Spotify's. I can't cast from the browser app and it doesn't remember what I'm listening to between devices. When I first switched there were a lot more bugs but I haven't noticed as many over the last year.
After Tidal inevitably succumbs to corporate rot, I'll be switching to owning my own collection and self-hosting. But until then, I'm happy with Tidal.
Tidal is owned by Square (the mobile payment app/company), and I think Jack Dorsey (Twitter founder) owns that. So, probably safe to say it's already pretty corporate.
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I'm not subscribed anymore, but as someone who uses the desktop client mainly it's hard to find a good alternative (good UI, snappy)
Deezer and Qobuz are meh.
I won't use Apple or Amazon. edit: or Google.
Maybe Tidal? Are there other ones?
I just found a third party player for Qobuz though. Not enough features but cute:
Tidal is good so far. I don't think it has podcasts though as far as I'm aware which is kindve a bummer
Convinced the wife to drop Spotify for Tidal with this shit.
Fucking hell, find out here it's owned by Dorsey. Just doing the trial for now, so may give quboz or however it's spelled too.
Thanks for the reminder! They shan't get another cent from me!
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