I quit using Spotify entirely after https://swedenherald.com/article/this-is-how-much-spotify-donated-to-trumps-inauguration
They alao have done very little about the misinformation Joe Rogan continues to spout.
Real x3
Honestly im considering just switching back to piracy
I dunno why you left! I've never understood what was good or better than pirating about these streaming services. Everyone says convenience, but I don't think that's the real reason, because ads and service interruptions seem way more inconvenient to me than not having my music.
What bugs me about the streaming services is songs from my library dropping off the service with no notice
Exactly. Happy to say I've never experienced this issue in my entire life. Like how I've never experienced buffering issues where the quality drops, or doesn't playback at all; never had to pay for a second service because the first one I chose has album A but not album B; never had a power or internet outage stop the music.
It's amazing that you can do so much more for so much less cost, yet people just keep giving these rich sheisters all their money they don't have. I think based on my last comment, it's laziness and convenience is just a spin to make it sound more acceptable.
For me, it’s the fear of getting caught.
I have got caught in my more vulnerable years. That was not a nice experience.
Someone else mentioned a similar comment. Pirating isn't the only option in escaping the streaming services, though. BandCamp, for instance, you can download your music. They even have a special day every year where 100% of every sale that day goes directly to the artist. They just did that yesterday, actually.
Use a VPN.
Well the original reason I went to spotify was kinda cause someone I know was curious what my spotify wrapped would look like :3.. and then I kinda just never switched back, cause I couldn't be bothered adding all the new songs I listened to on spotify to my playlist at the time x3
This is why I miss scrobbling. I think scrobbling is still a thing, but far less so now with the social media psychology being applied to music streaming.
Me and my music nerd friends all loved seeing each others' habits, so we linked our local Clementine players with Last.FM, and could see all the stats for each other that way.
If only Lidarr was better. I want to be able to have it use Spotify algorithms. I want to give Lidarr a song or genre and have it just start downloading the songs as if it were playing the radio. So I can discover new music based on what Spotify thinks I would like. I don't like that the wanted is all music ever released.
I pirate, use soundcloud and buy vinyls as much as I can.
Only reason not to ditch spotify is that you want your donations to go to turning america into more of a 3rd world shithole, starting world war 3 and disrupting the entire global economy, or you really love ai music being shoved down your throats in order to destroy smaller artists and benfit the 3 giant lables.
This is one service I pay for and never had had to worry about ads. I can skip around, download and work it just like my offline music with no differences
I'm also paying for Spotify however I still get ads when listening to podcasts. Really bothering
Those arent spotify ads, they're the ads from the podcast. To my knowledge unless its a "spotify exclusive" all they are doing is fetching the RSS feed for you, not paying the creator anything regardless of your subscription status
And now they're showing locked episodes, which drives me up the fucking wall. Seems to only be with all the podcasts that SirusXM is buying up as of late, which unfortunately make up a good chunk of what I listen to.
So stop ducking using the service. How else is it ever going to change?
Adverts are poison for the mind.
I just download my songs using freetube, load then onto my phone, and use a FOSS music player to make my playlists. That way, even when I drive out into areas with spotty connections I get my tunes coming through
There’s no reason to waste your time on ads.
Am I the only one who download music now?(11.3 GB - 320K - Around 1600 Songs)
Amateur. 120 gb myself.
(Seriously though, that's awesome 👍 )
I went back to just downloading it. Got a 512gb SD card in my phone with 180GB of music on it and about 40GB of podcasts. Spotify is just for when I want to find new stuff to listen to.
The free version of Spotify is really not worth it. Even Youtube music gives you a better experience.
I hate that YouTube Music keeps trying to make me waste my bandwidth on videos that have worse audio quality than when it just plays the song. 0/10 smoothbrain design, probably just to sell more video ads.
why don't you have an adblocker? I haven't seen / heard an ad on one of my devices in 15 years.
Wait that's a thing in Mobile devices?
If you're on iPhone, SOL or use Spotify web with brave browser (in-built ad blocker).
If you're on Android plenty of APKs that'll disable ads and make you 'premium'
There's no reason to trust random APKs for stuff like this anymore when Revanced exists to let you build the APK yourself right on your phone with only the patches you want. Highly recommend!
I prefer my phone with malware, so I know I'm not alone
I haven't considered this point before. Currently clicking on every sketchy ad I see.
Firefox + ublock origin + sponsor block (for youtube).
i don't use apple products but it works on everything else
Spotify kind of sucks. I've been buying music from the musicians (mostly via Bandcamp) for years. Buying one album a month for like $8 means is cheaper than a subscription, and I now have a huge library of music.
It infuriates me too, it's an outrageous lie. Bizarrely sometimes it plays for ages with no ads IDKY
Because I have never habituated the use of Spotify, I don't think about not having it.
You could YT music-revanced. Just sayin'
I used Spotify once years ago. wanted to listen to the Beatles or Bowie or something.
first song was good. then they started playing Sinatra, then Katy Perry, then someone else.
I removed it just because if I told you to play "X" you play "X".
so glad I still have my 500gb collection of mp3s.
This is one service where the free version really isn’t worth it.
For downloading there's lucida.to
The only reason I would listen to 5 minutes of adverts is if I had no way of stopping them.
Use spotube or simpmusic. Its not like spotify actually pays their artists jackshit. Just make sure to send small artists a few bucks if you really like their stuff
I noticed this happening recently as last night. I was wondering what the fuck was going on. 30 minutes my ass, for example, I listened to Alice in Chains' Them Bones which is a 2 minute song, after the "promise" of 30 minutes ad-free and I got ad after fucking ad. Then I get a song, then it's ad after fucking ad. I'll be lucky I get 2 more songs before it's more ads.
I'm actually going to be looking into a media player that has bluetooth in it so I don't have to ever put up with this spotify shit.
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