I cancelled my spotify yesterday. Left a note in the reasons box that spotify can get fucked for supporting those terroristic ICE cunts. Never going back.
Sounds like a stupid business model. They should keep doing it and see how that works for them.
P.S. You don’t need Spotify. I’m a huge audiophile and I’ve never touched that shit.
if you must have a streaming service YT permium is a better deal anyway. you get both ad free youtube and ad free music, plus any ringfenced features.
That said, the algorithm on YT music isn’t as good, but overall still a better deal than spotify
I’m glad I never gave up my home hosted solution. For years, it looked like a dying path. Then I found Navidrome which is doing some great work building off the original Subsonic and the amazing android app Symfonium.
Used this as motivation to switch over to tidal this morning - it’s pretty easy, and cheaper per month. And the transfer service I used had something like 99% hit rate. Not too bad for dropping a sub I’ve had for 14 years.
Well fuck you Spotify. Just closed my account.
it shouldve been a sign when they decided to platform joe roegan.
Yep, that was when I dropped my subscription back then.
tbf, iirc he wasn’t nearly as right wing (at least publicly) when that deal initially happened. BLM protests and COVID is when he went full conservative if my memory serves me right.
he was already getting there, by the start of covid i believe, he was drawing so many men into the manosphere already for conservatives. some ytubers i used to followed started parroting his talking points around that time, and had family members who were into mma started aggressively following him through SC, when they were barely before.
Just buy music, for instance flacs on: https://www.qobuz.com/shop
Then use a local player. Might I recommend: https://github.com/ravachol/kew
So that’s a big fuck no for me, gonna need to replace it in the morning. Someone mentioned Tidal on the article, anyone have experience to give it or others a recommendation?
Identical “it’s a library, not a radio” style if possible but not run by fools would be ideal. Thanks.
I switched to Tidal two years ago and I’m happy with it. As some have said, it’s missing a few features but nothing critical to me at least and it being cheaper is worth most of the missing stuff I didn’t use. >95% of the tracks off my 800+ running playlist of liked tracks that I manually ported over from Spotify were available on Tidal.
I really like Tidal, feels similar to Spotify at a similar or lower cost, surprisingly wide music selection, decent music discovery and suggestions, offline download and hifi audio, etc.
I switched to Tidal. It’s missing a few features, but the music library is basically the same (the only songs that didn’t transfer over from my Spotify library were very obscure anime soundtrack stuff) and the audio quality is superb.
I use YouTube music but I’ve also tried and liked https://www.qobuz.com/
They’re based in France but they supposedly have higher quality than tidal. And they have free trials
Edit: kept YT music because of the no ads on YouTube.
YouTube has ads? 😅
I swapped over to qobuz a few months ago and im happy with it.
I’m on Apple Music now but I much preferred Deezer to Tidal.
It doesn’t have the device streaming capabilities, but otherwise it is similar.
Device streaming as in which? Only devices I would have that wouldn’t be getting their data from a phone/computer would be the chromecasts that have an app on the play store, no smart speakers or such here.
Spotify has a central casting system where every Spotify instance talks to each other on the Wi-Fi. Tidal is not as communicative and just does direct streaming.
Jango is good but its more of a Pandora replacement
Rutracker and redacted.
Navidrome or jellyfin server.
I hear that, still have a decent chunk locally but have gotten a bit spoiled using Spotify as a discovery engine over the past several years.
I think there’s a way with scrobbling but the closest I’ve found are smart playlists
I switched to apple music over the weekend and I’m very happy with it. I listen to a lot of music with friends so I specifically wanted a service that had the ability to let other people add to your music queue and apple has that. Apple has a built in library transfer so the switch was easy and you’ll save money if you have a family plan or and/or also subscribe to apple tv.
Not comparable to Spotify, but worth checking out nevertheless:
This has been my go-to for twenty years now. They have so many great stations and their holiday stuff is really cool.
Don’t know how I’ve completely missed this for all these years but I’m checking it out on my drive in tomorrow. Thanks for the share!
Here to second SomaFM, listened to this pretty much constantly in the early 2000s before everything else suggested here existed
