I Quit Spotify
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I Quit Spotify
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#2sensible move.
shitification thats spotify.
I would like to see a HN inspired web site that lists all of the bands and musicians where we can click on a link and go directly to the band or musicians web site and buy or download the music directly from them.
No middle man earning a small fortune off the backs of those talented musicians.
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#3Anecdotally, and without having read this, I unsubscribed and stopped using the app just last week. I think YouTube has better recommendations and selection.
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#4Don't get me wrong, I've started moving away from Spotify, but not entirely for these reasons. Music to me is mostly one big playlist and a few smaller playlists from the same library of my music. And where my music doesn't get randomly yanked because the artist had a fit with Spotify or license issues came up
I never understood people's fetishization of albums and "enjoying" an album and all the music app interfaces created around that. I just want a cloud or self hosted version of winamp, where jumping to the next song or queueing it up from my playlist is a hotkey away rather than 12 clicks on a crowded interface.
Been moving to navidrome but i expect to eventually need some workarounds to get what i want.
Edit: also the poor implementation that is smart shuffle and shoving it down my throat
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#5I quit Spotify a few years ago as well.
They kept changing stuff, breaking my work flow, with every change it felt like there was more friction to listen to the music and podcasts I wanted, and less friction to listen to algorithmically selected slop I didn't want to listen to. Eventually I just said fuck it. I don't need this source of stress and frustration in my life. I've never looked back.
I'm on youtube music now. In many ways it's a worse product, but it at least stays the same and doesn't keep trying to make me change my listening behavior.
I suspect Spotify's problem is that they have (or had) too many developers, so you get this pressure to look busy "improving" the product, with endless lateral change as a result instead.
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#6I'm looking for a music app (streaming or otherwise) that supports what seems to me like a basic feature, but which seems to be unsupported in anything I've tried.
I want the ability to shuffle my library/play the latest releases/whatever while leaving albums intact.
I want to play the entirety of one album in order, then play another album in order, and so on.
Anyone know of an app that does this? I'll drop spotify today if some other streaming service can do this.
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#7The problem is that Spotify has to pay huge royalties to the studios instead of being able to make a large margin as other tech companies do. So they get squeezed from both ends, on one side the customer who doesn't want to pay more and on the other side the music industry.
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#9Don't get me wrong, I've started moving away from Spotify, but not entirely for these reasons. Music to me is mostly one big playlist and a few smaller playlists from the same library of my music. And where my music doesn't get randomly yanked because the artist had a fit with Spotify or license issues came up I never understood people's fetishization of albums and "enjoying" an album and all the music app interfaces…
Depends in the genre and artists, some music fits into separate songs where albums are merely a collection, some is created for an album as the primary artform, with a narrative, themes (in a musical and literary sense) and story.
Think about it as an opera. Of course, Nessum Dorma sounds great by itself, but wouldn't it hit different if you hear it in the context of the whole story, with emotional buildup and everything?
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#10Don't get me wrong, I've started moving away from Spotify, but not entirely for these reasons. Music to me is mostly one big playlist and a few smaller playlists from the same library of my music. And where my music doesn't get randomly yanked because the artist had a fit with Spotify or license issues came up I never understood people's fetishization of albums and "enjoying" an album and all the music app interfaces…
> I never understood people's fetishization of albums and "enjoying" an album and all the music app interfaces created around that
There are concept/themed albums where the songs tell a story and you are supposed to listen them from start to finish.
Also several times an album is actually how the artists themselves wanted to release/listen/publish their songs (instead of individual tracks with no relation among them)