No shit with the company that has a CEO that calls music ~“content without production costs”. Soulless middleman profiteering ghouls.
spotify execs bet on land war in asia
Moving to Tidal as we speak. Enough is enough.
I don’t want AI music; however Spotify has made great playlist of recommended artist of music I like.
There platform also works correctly for listening on WiFi which Tidal did not.
I think they will learn quickly that people don’t like AI generated music. If people do end up liking it, then I’m sad because so far Spotify recommendations is something I talked highly about in past years.
Music streaming companies with active anti-AI policies are: Qobuz, Tidal and Deezer
Bandcamp is always worth mentioning if you want to buy music directly
Bandcamp rules. Not only can you buy music but many artists also sell merch, sheet music, art and more. It’s a great, one-stop-shop to support your favourite artists.
And if you keep a look out, Bandcamp regularly email about “Bandcamp Friday” which are defined Fridays where they waive their share of the sale meaning the artist gets the whole cut!
I have been enjoying Qobuz, since quitting Spotify a couple of years ago. Everything’s better quality, they have proper credits and PDF CD booklets, the classical music metadata is much better, it encourages you to listen more deliberately to music you choose, and I don’t feel dirty for funding scumbags.
I’ve been using Qobuz for about a year and generally like it. There are a couple of things that are making me want to switch though. 1) Artists often have albums associated with them that don’t belong. Check out the Australian band Jet as an example. 2) Some artists I like have albums on both Spotify and Tidal that they don’t have on Qobuz for some reason
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This is annoying, I agree. Join Qobuz Club and upvote suggestions to prioritise cleaning it up.
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Contact the acts management to pressure the label to release on Qobuz too. It should be in their interest.
I am part of the club and upvote any comments I see about catalogue clean ups. I’ve also posted a few on my own, but haven’t gotten any acknowledgement on them from the Qobuz team.
I have emailed the label to request the missing albums also be uploaded to Qobuz, but did not receive any response on that. I have also submitted the request through Qobuz for the albums to be added to and received the automated reply email, but who knows if anything will happen with that.
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Qobuz is great! I’ve been using it for over 2 years now.
I won’t even pay for Spotify. I’ve only bought one song since the advent of AI and it’s from an artist I trust not to use slop
Betcha I won’t. I ain’t paying for shit from that garbage app.
Spotify pays real musicians pennies. Anyone who appreciates music should ditch them.
Spotify would be wrong.
lol I’m so glad I unsubbed back when they started letting ICEatzgruppen advertise on their platform. I paid for ad free, but simply knowing they were running ads for the all-American Stasi made me drop them like a hot potato.
They’re right, most people have shit music taste.
I have shit music taste, but only because I’m self aware enough to know I do.
You may be shrugging right now, going “well, I don’t have shit music taste.”
You do.
I cancelled specifically because of ai slop, and forced podcast garbage.
Some of those podcasts are hosted without the creators consent and even if they are asked to take them down, they put them back up after a while.
I specifically left because Spotify would not stop pushing drooling idiot Joe Rogan… and that is a podcast Spotify funds
same here
It’s crap. I’ve listened to a little of it. Generic, predictable, and full of issues like “singers” rapping out 30 seconds of high volume lyrics without a single intake of breath. But it fits in with the general overall quality of available music on Spotify. A sea of boring and low-effort junk.
https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube let’s you use playlists while listening for free without ads.
I’m glad I got rid of that shit years ago
Yup. I haven’t used Spotify in years. I see these constant headlines and articles about Spotify doing stupid shit over and over and over again and wonder why people keep using that pile of trash when there are numerous better alternatives.
I’ve talked with Spotify users about the alternatives and how they are better and linked them to playlist transfer services so they can jump ship in as little as 15 minutes and they still refuse to do it. They’d rather keep using Spotify and constantly bitching about how terrible it is. They have effectively Stockholm syndrome’d their userbase at this point.
and wonder why people keep using that pile of trash when there are numerous better alternatives.
It’s simple. because they are good consumers.
the advertising industry taught them well.
I need to set up Revanced for my brother. He still uses Spotify
We were on a long drive last weekend and my wife was complaining that Spotify wouldn’t actually shuffle randomly and that it keeps trying to get her to listen to AI songs and doesn’t work well.
My response: You could stop paying for Spotify and use the free Tidal subscription I’ve been trying to get you to use.
Her: But it would be so hard!
Me: No, it wouldn’t. It took me 10 mins to switch.
smh
