Submitted 1 month ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org
As apparently, this move is made to target audiobook listeners and podcast listeners, can I recommend audiobookshelf.org
I’d take a lower-priced plan with limited listening time. They’re getting too expensive for the few hours a month I use it. If they bump it up more I will quit for sure.
Spotify is making bank on musician who get get jack squat in return. Don’t use Spotify.
Should probably suggest an alternative.
Why? Streaming has become a scam and everyone seems okay with it. Like everything online. Everything is an expensive subscription to rent entertainment. My suggestion? Buy CDs. Buy directly from the artists. Or pirate it, at least Spotify won’t make any money from it.
Bandcamp Fridays.
Especially if you are a musician. Musicians need to boycott it. 99.9999% of musicians wouldn’t even notice if they weren’t on it but it would destroy Spotify.
It’s not even worth indie and small artists time to put it on there. Spotify has now officially demonetised all songs with less than 1,000 streams: nme.com/…/spotify-has-now-officially-demonetised-…
Y'all keeping paying, they keep raising prices... there is a solution but nobody can figure out what tit is!
You're right - Apple Music is cool
I’ve had an excellent experience with Apple Music as well. Plus, lossless!
I’ve been quite enjoying AM too
I’m all in on Navidrome
Same here! I just started to contribute stuff to MusicBrainz
Fuckin titjob mate.
Stream your own music at whatever quality you have it in!
server github.com/sentriz/gonic
Navidrome + Feishin (Web) - Tempo (Android) - Jellyfin (Android TV) here! I wish there was a solution for casting though, sometimes Jellyfin doesn’t work properly
I can’t recommend Navidrome to people who aren’t necessarily big on self-hosting, it’s simply far too big of a project. Gonic is very narrow in scope and it’s a drop-in binary; just works.
I’ll probably bin it. Every playlist goes into the same few songs recently.
Noticed the same since last December… Switched to YouTube Music for a change
I call on all small artists to boycott Spotify.
You will make no money on it but they depend on you for their business.
Do not perpetuate or support the continued impoverishment of musicians and degradation of artistic culture.
How will small artists get to make themselves known, though? Not everyone has the option to play live.
Cool, I already use AntennaPod and it’s great!
I’ll believe it when I see it- Spotify lossless was announced years ago. I don’t believe them.
Can someone recommend kid/family friendly alternative? Is Tidal easy to use/navigate?
If the raise prices too much I’m going to finalise my plan to move to YouTube Music family plan. Additional bonus will be no more adds on YouTube.
Don’t fall for this self hosting stuff. It’s well meant and great for single tech enthusiasts, but with family, you won’t have enough time to do the required upkeep and the whinning you will here from dependents when stuff goes wrong isn’t worth it.
You can try NewPipe, which is free. IIRC I downloaded it from F-Droid. Maybe someone else can reply and confirm that's the best place to get it.
They’re all pretty straight forward and Tidal has a better record of crediting and paying artists than Spotify. But ultimately, I would suggest self hosting.
How is self hosting better than paying artists?
If you're Apple users Music isn't too shabby
Works fine on Android as well (which is weird considering how bad Apple software can be on non-Apple devices). Just need to create an Apple ID and you’re set.
Testing out the trial right now and it’s pretty great so far.
UI is way better than Spotify as well (IMO), plus lossless for the same price as current Spotify Premium. (And it also has a max cache size limit option, so even playing a shit ton of lossless isn’t going to eat up more space than what you select.)
Getting my fucking Spotify library and playlists I’ve built over the years on here is going to be a long nightmare, though.
The Music client for Mac is still an excellent music manager and player despite how visibly much they’ve let it bitrot* since it was iTunes. It’s a shame neither the mobile app nor the web client has anywhere near the capabilities.
* for example, what the fuck is that stupid unresizable header that takes up half the window with mostly empty space and doesn’t scroll off the screen anymore if you set a playlist view to “as Songs”
I buy sometimes buy downloads on Qobuz but they also have a streaming subscription. I’ve been able to find most non-obscure music on their site.
Doesn’t seem so bad, if you don’t want the price hike just change your plan to not include audiobooks. A little scummy that you need to opt out but not the worst.
Hmm, I use Spotify to stream a wake up mix (approved by my SO,) to an Amazon Echo via Home Assistant. Currently, I know of no way to stream arbitrary music files to an Echo. And I know of no consumer grade device that can accept the command to “Shut your cake hole” when we’re tired of listening to stuff while being compatible with HA. This is … inconvenient.
Could this help? github.com/rosskouk/asknavidrome
i already pay for youtube premium, I will just start using music and say fuck it.
I got off Spotify like a year ago it’s been nice
And this is where i hop off spotify, stayed too long
Hope I don’t have to pay for audiobooks I don’t listen to because that’s a waste. Spotify should just stick to what they do OK which is music. I’ll stick to music only.
Apparently you can opt out and forego the charge.
sunbunman@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Just a heads up to everyone, quitting Spotify and buying / “procuring” your own music and playing it via a music player makes reading this quite cathartic. Do it for the moral superiority and self esteem boost for no effort you come to the internet for anyways.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 month ago
How do you even buy music anymore?
sunbunman@lemm.ee 1 month ago
There’s quite a few ways actually:
If none of the above has worked, this is no longer an issue about whether you want to pay for the product or not, it’s a supplier problem.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I feel like piracy and moral superiority don’t really belong together
FippleStone@aussie.zone 1 month ago
You are clearly not aware of the windfall profits corporations are making, and that they are then passing exactly none of it on to the workers generating that profit
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 month ago
Yeah the moral thing to do is pay a third party company $130 per year who then pays an artist $0.20 per billion streams of their work.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It is a moral imperative to pirate EA, Ubisoft and Nintendo.
Scrof@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
A popular myth, but a myth nonetheless.
sunbunman@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I always try to buy my music first, digital only though. I don’t have space for CDs or the like. If the option is not available (not common), the tricorn goes on. And normally I would go through any loophole I can find to get it legally. But damn, the Japanese really don’t like doing business with foreigners.