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!
Mandatory fuck Spotify. They rip off artists too.
Been boycotting them for 1,5 year or so. Went to Qobuz but mainly buy vinyl in recordshops or via bandcamp. Also buy a lot of digital albums during bandcamp fridays
Forgot already that they gave Trump money when he started being president?
They also elevated Joe Rogan and the entire antitrans movement… many years ago…
I don’t support giving Joe Rogan any money either but I honestly think the Spotify deal helped move him out for the spotlight. I would say his peak was a few years ago before the Spotify deal, I definitely don’t hear as much out of him now as I used to.
Haven’t been using Spotify for over a year now. And before that it’s only been hacked 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
Woah thats bad
Or why better curate your own MP3/FLAC collection.
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 just got an MP3 player to carry a about 40GB of music–more than I can realistically listen to, and have some CDs for the car.
Self-hosting is pretty complicated and nerdy. Awesome if you can do it, but not necessary.
I used to carry a small mp3 player too. It had only 1 GB of storage and didn’t play lossless (and if it did, it would’ve fit maybe 3 albums). At one point I started collecting everything in lossless and I was considering a newer player with more storage too, but I wanted something that could talk to Last.fm as well, which limited the choices a little bit. Ultimately I went with my current approach. I don’t need my whole music library all the time, but it’s nice that if I think of something that I haven’t listened in a while, I can get to it too. I also have it set up so that anything I mark as a favourite gets automatically cached to my phone such that it’s available offline for when the network is sketchy or not available at all.
The self-hosting is not all that tricky - there are plenty of resources that would help you manage, and once it’s done, it just works. The only compromise I have right now is that I don’t expose the service to the Internet so I have to go through a VPN. Other than that, by definition of self hosting, it’s your data, so you aren’t risking some favourite artist just pulling their work from a platform you have no control over, so it gives a bit of peace of mind.
Well, currently I’m running via a mobile hot spot because I hate my cable company and I don’t feel the need to send them money since my media is mostly physical and downloaded…
The other factor I’m a heavy mobile user and it’s not unusual to run down the battery; taking the load off the phone battery with a separate, very efficient device, is a good move; and, not that I care particulary, but wired headphones with a DAC is gonna beat bluetooth on quality.
Wired and a dedicated device will always be better of course if you can manage. I’m currently going with wired IEMs attached to a Bluetooth DAC/amp that connects to my phone. There might be some quality loss indeed, but I’m probably not going to notice it in the outside noise anyway. Still, I can use the DAC connected via USB too if I insist on lossless - but it’s a bit cumbersome with using my phone attached to it. It’s fine with a player that I toss in my pocket and maybe hit play/pause from time to time, but with a phone that I’m using way more often it’s inconvenient.
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.
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
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
I think it’s funny when conservatives say stuff like this. Like. Your kids are gonna grow up hating you & diverge from your reactionary ideology as soon as they can. I encourage you to have more!
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
Easiest boycott ever for me
Got it. I’ll continue to not use Spotify.
I disliked the company before it was cool
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