Plenty of apps play Spotify and YouTube music without ads, I’ve been using outertune.
Comment on Spotify 30 minutes of uninterrupted... Just kidding
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Real x3
Honestly im considering just switching back to piracy
jared@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I miss What.CD so much for this reason. They had the “Artist Web” on every artist and album page that linked you to similar music, and even showing which links were higher percentage matches.
majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 3 weeks ago
Spotdl - download your entire Spotify playlist
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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.
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
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.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What bugs me about the streaming services is songs from my library dropping off the service with no notice
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
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.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
For me, it’s the fear of getting caught.
I have got caught in my more vulnerable years. That was not a nice experience.
b3an@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That, yes, and then the increase of prices just to kick you in the balls too.
But what pisses ME off, is how they doctor their downloads and replays. It grabs minimal, replays as much as possible, before getting something new. You’re literally paying to be in your own echo chamber.
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I like Spotify for music discovery (I don’t have the time to discover music on my own). $42 CAD per year for premium is worth it for me.
I’m already running an ARR stack, so there would only be about 10 minutes of effort if I ever change my mind and add Lidarr.
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Start following YT channels like NPR Tiny Desk Concerts and KEXP. You won’t have to do the leg work, new music (good and bad) will be in your feed all the time.
Having said that, the hunt is part of the fun for me.
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I get it, it was part of the fun for me.
But now I’ve got about 60 minutes per day to myself where I am not working or keeping a toddler from killing themselves. I’m using that time to play video games; not hoping I can stumble upon my delicious niche of death/power/trash metal that I’ll listen to for 10-15 hours a week
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
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
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
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.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
of course ads are inconvenient, the choice is between doing your own discovery and handling your own library with synchronization and what not, vs paying $12 a year (US).
I personally have no patience nor desire to manage the library myself and discover tracks, so it makes sense to me. But I’d rather not listen to anything than to listen to ads every 5 minutes.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
There are many pros and cons. They are different things. While the main reason is that commercial solutions are selected to be as accessible as possible while piracy solutions require the user to make a lot more decisions (many of which can be made wrong), there area also valid reasons that spring directly from being different mediums. It is not hard to discover these reasons by simply trying it for a week.
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I tried Spotify for a couple of years, paid for it even. I have nothing good to say about it, not even the music discovery part. At least, in terms of personal use. It prevented me from listening to what I wanted to listen to more than half the time, even if what I wanted to hear was on the platform.
I get what you’re saying. You’re right that they are different things in some scenarios. For a generic DJ (think weddings, school dances, etc.), it becomes a crucial utility. Service almost any request without having to lug around hard drives/records and have to anticipate what will be requested. Although arguably, that was part of the art of being a DJ for hire at one time, knowing your audience and music well enough so you only bring what you’ll need.
At the end of the day, said services can just disappear for several reasons. That happens, and you’re shit out of luck. You’ll have to either start pirating or start paying for a new service. Either way you’re rebuilding your library.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I pay for YT premium and I use it like 40+ hours a week. That’s the convenience, it doesn’t cost a whole lot to me and I can put in 0 effort.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It is convenience and easy to use. Both are equally important. I already have the arr stack perfectly running for movies and series but lidarr just seems difficult to work with. Been resorting to manually download few from those online tools that take it from tidal or qobuz but it’s cumbersome. Tried to just buy qobuz, tidal and deezer but none of them are available here and couldn’t get around it with VPN either. The only option I have are Spotify, apple, YouTube and amazon which I absolutely hate and refuse to buy because of the companies running it. Are there any plugins people are using for lidarr to pull from api or a script that I can write myself of better torrent sites that have consistent quality and massive library.