There are plenty of controversies surrounding Spotify, but what really made me cancel my subscription was the fact that they ran recruitment ads for ICE. Boycott Spotify!
Music streaming is amazing. I love it. It’s so much easier to find new music.
That being said, best way to support the artists is to go to their shows, and buy their merch. Specifically, buy the album. There is no guarantee it will still be available for streaming forever, so best to have a physical copy and rip it to mp3 for archiving and digital use
Or why better curate your own MP3/FLAC collection.
I listened to “The Eagles” Greatest Hits last week and seven people were snatched off the street and shipped to another country. Fuck “The Eagles”. /s
A friend from a local band told me that the money they’re making from streaming is maybe barely enough to cover the cost of being on the platform to begin with. So yeah, I can agree with “fuck Spotify” even before going to the sketchy stuff they’ve been funding and promoting.
I’m going the self hosting route myself. Navidrome running on a small PC at home, Symfonium on my phone, and music from Bandcamp and CDs I’ve bought. If you care about the artists you’re listening to, you should care about supporting them. Buying a digital album on Bandcamp Friday for 10 bucks means 10 bucks going directly to the artist with no deductions. I haven’t looked at the numbers, but you’d probably have to be streaming their stuff thousands of times before they make the same money from streaming.
I stopped using even their free service when they kept giving a platform to anti-vax dipshit podcasters during covid
I have Spotify premium. What I really loathe about them is that even on premium they insert ads into podcasts. And no it is not the podcaster promoting sponsors in their own voice. It is Spotify interrupting the podcast with commercials in my local language.
Am I supposed to feel some sort of sympathy or something?
You’re paying, knowing full well that you’re a sucker
TIL this TIL community has some real thick members but I also learned that the community is doing a great job of ensuring they are properly ratioed.
Easiest boycott ever for me
Already stopped using for platforming and paying millions to Joe Rogan
Ah yes Joe Rogan because he actually does interviews and asks questions instead of the mind numbing news outlets who are bought and paid for.
Ah yes I love the smug conservative thinker.
Look up operation mocking bird and come back and see how stupid this comment is
lOok Up OpeRaTioN mOckiNgBirD
It’s not the cold war anymore, troglodyte. Also, even if both sides do propaganda, it doesn’t mean that you’re not brainwashed by the Russian side of it. You do listen to Joe Rogan, so you’re already a certified brainlet.
Try referring to something relevant next time lmao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Tenet_Media_investigation
You’re stupid
Don’t breed
Lol we will outbreed you soy boys
That’s a very weird thing to say
I have never understood what a “soy boy” is exactly
I’ve also never understood what white supremacists (I’m assuming you’re some sort of bigoted weirdo) think they’re achieving by pretending they have many children
I have no children. I don’t like children
Right now, I’m laying back in my hot tub with a glass of wine
I can guarantee that all the things you would like to have, I enjoyed and then tossed aside
You’re pathetic and you will die alone and lonely
Hot damn you are all over this post repeatedly smashing your face into moldy dog shit with these comments.
Hilarious. Good one I guess? Someone has to be the truth in this shithole
Got it. I’ll continue to not use Spotify.
I disliked the company before it was cool
Before the company was cool or before disliking them was cool
Boycott? Never used them in the first place.
You’re doing your part!
I threw Spotify away when they wouldn’t stop platforming Nazis.
I’m sure that this will be the thing that convinces stubborn Spotify users to finally switch after they’ve ignored the last 481 controversies that Spotify has racked up.
Not everyone is aware of the controversies. Until recently I was one of them. I’m hoping this post will reach them and encourage them to join the boycott.
It was more that they pay the artists that make up all their content absolute dog shit in royalties since their inception that made me boycott, this one is just another cherry on the pile
What no they paid that one talkshow libertarian dudeguy millions of dollars a year to be on Spotify checkmate atheists
I’ll use them even more. Know your efforts are in vain because of me.
I was already.
Why would I use any optional platform with ads? I’d rather go without music than hear ads.
This happened quite some time ago.
AudiCable gives you the ability to download your Spotify library to your storage outside of the Spotify app. This will violate their ToS and they’ll lock you out of your account until you contact support and tell them you won’t do it again. I haven’t tried this (yet) but I suspect you can download your Spotify library inside the app, turn off your internet, run AudiCable and transfer your library, then uninstall Spotify and they’ll presumably never know.
… in Minecraft.
Qobuz is a outstanding music streaming service. If you’re into EDM then check out Beatport.
I used Sunnify for Linux to convert my downloaded Spotify songs to mp3. Now I have all of my songs locally. Then I deleted my account.
So theft…
Help me understand. You’re happy to boot lick Spotify for severely under paying artists (theft), with a CEO who openly supports war crimes (morally reprehensible) and happily runs ICE ads (also morally bankrupt) while praising Joe Rogan (need I say more) and yet you draw the line at someone ripping their mp3 collection?
The fuck outta here with that joke-ass troll shit. These takes are so pathetic there’s no way it’s a legit Lemmy user.
Huh interesting so you think theft is ok but just using a service is worse? That’s insane. Do you have an apple phone? Do you use Google? You hypocrite
I didn’t think Qobuz was great. Their algorithm needs work. I’ve had much better luck with Tidal. Qobuz gives slightly more money to the artists, but they’re both better at that than Spotify.
I agree on the Qobuz algorithm. The sound quality is top-tier, though I suppose you could say the same about Tidal.
Lolz. Imagine paying for this dogshit to begin with.
