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I Quit Spotify

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Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by theshrike79 »

My reasoning for leaving Spotify was this:

  - Spotify pays fractions of pennies per play to the artist ($0.00318)
  - Apple Music pays about three times more ($0.008)
  - Tidal pays more than Apple Music ($0.01284)
I picked Apple because I've got it anyway through Apple One, if I wasn't in The Ecosystem, I'd switch to Tidal since it integrates with PlexAmp directly.

https://virpp.com/hello/music-streaming-payouts-comparison-a...

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by theshrike79 »

deng wrote: post #41

PSA for people with kids: Parental controls and QA in Spotify are a bad joke. I found out the hard way that Spotify features tons of videos and that you cannot disable them. See for instance https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KS759AlVGVj34OHPbcx1p There's also ton of dubious stuff in the "ASMR" category you probably wouldn't want your kid have access to and that is not caught by the "Explicit" filter, see for instance…

Holy crap, that's straight up porn - no ASMR there. This is the same crap that used to be on those expensive phone services where you'd call and get charged insane amounts for.

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by theshrike79 »

croo wrote: post #24
samwillis wrote: post #16

We (as a family) moved from Spotify to Apple Music, but it was entirely down to cost. As our kids have grown and gained their own devices we've had to find apps/services that we can share with them. The most successful has been Apple One, having Arcade for them, TV and News for us, the storage, and extras like Fitness, it made sense to get Apple One. At that point we had Apple Music for "free" so decided to migrate a…

> decision was entirely down to cost > Whole family uses Apple products I cannot prove it but I feel a contradiction

As an anecdote, my kid is in their pre-teens. They're on their second iPad - got the first one at around age 1-2.

I think that's a pretty nice TCO right there.

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by nine_k »

reify wrote: post #2

sensible 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.

Have you looked at bandcamp.com? It's not exactly what you envisioned, but still a very useful tool for independent bands, and for discovery.

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by jarl-ragnar »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #5

I 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 n…

Sounds as much a problem of too many Product Managers all trying to make a mark so they can progress their career. Hence features keep getting added or re-designed.

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by a-french-anon »

avh02 wrote: post #59
a-french-anon wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly, I don't really think the question at hand is complex enough to be more constructive than the single sentence I used. But let's try: could you reduce a movie like "Taxi Driver" to a single scene and keep all of its value? I categorically state "no", but you could probably with sitcoms-with-background-laugh-tracks ("probably", my experience with them isn't very extensive). Basically, some music is made to be dig…

and all those albums with filler "intro" and "intermission" tracks?

Sure, that also counts. If it is truly filler (for your value of "truly" and "filler"), of course.

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by avh02 »

Propelloni wrote: post #53
avh02 wrote: post #4

Don'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 think, in the olden days you would be the guy who has a favorite radio station, tunes to it, and just let it run. That's what I do in the car anyway ;) Nothing's wrong about that. However, there is no need to denigrate other people's preferences with poor wording. You do you, they do they. There is no harm in the way anybody likes their music. BTW, there is winamp-js, which is Winamp in your browser. I think the Wi…

i like music from all over - i guess i agree the wording is a bit too on the nose - thinking if i edit and tone it down, but there's been a lot written after it already.

The issue is almost every good music application assumes an organization style by artist/album, which in the modern world, may not be how things still work. To me, albums are a suggestion/release unit.

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by a-french-anon »

avh02 wrote: post #55
a-french-anon wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going to get a lot of flak for this, but this is peak plebeian. I means to me you don't know how to appreciate music on a deep level, that you solely listen to "greatest hits" or genres/artists too base to be able to (or too commercial to even want to) create an album with an overarching aesthetic vision; not even talking about concept album, just having purpose in differences between tracks while still cultivati…

let me flip it on you, i have entire albums i like as individual songs. but i don't put the record on the start, turn off shuffle and pretend to be of higher intelligence because i 'appreciate' the work the artist put in to it. For sure there are albums that are like that, i just don't tend to listen to music like that. I listen to a song, i think "oh, i want to listen to that next", queue it up and forget i wanted t…

As I expanded in another reply, what warrants a reaction like mine is listening to most or all of your music in this way.

I mean, I won't force people not to put ketchup in all their dishes, including when going to a 1-star Michelin restaurant, but if that's not the dictionary definition of "pleb", I don't know what is.

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