I held out for a really long time. Google Music used to sell music and be an online player at the same time, which was pretty good. Then they threw that away.
Leaving Spotify for freer pastures
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Re: Leaving Spotify for freer pastures
#12I genuinly want to stop giving Spotify my money because of the increasingly horrible user experience. But the sheer investment I have there in the form of more than ten year's worth of curated lists and folders makes it damn near impossible to leave without abandoning pretty much my entire "music library" which it has become at this point.
Is it possible to export? Is it possible to make them export it for you - via a GDPR request?
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Re: Leaving Spotify for freer pastures
#13I genuinly want to stop giving Spotify my money because of the increasingly horrible user experience. But the sheer investment I have there in the form of more than ten year's worth of curated lists and folders makes it damn near impossible to leave without abandoning pretty much my entire "music library" which it has become at this point.
I exported all my spotify data by going to Account > Privacy Settings on their website and requesting all the data that I could get.
This included:
-Playlists
-Streaming history for the past year (you can request history for the lifetime of your account too)
-A list of items saved in your library
-Search queries
-No. of followers, accounts you follow, and blocked accounts
-Payment and subscription data
-User data
-Family Plan data
-Inferences
-Voice input
-Podcast interactivity
-Spotify for Artists data
Re: Leaving Spotify for freer pastures
#14I genuinly want to stop giving Spotify my money because of the increasingly horrible user experience. But the sheer investment I have there in the form of more than ten year's worth of curated lists and folders makes it damn near impossible to leave without abandoning pretty much my entire "music library" which it has become at this point.
What do you find horrible about it? I'm genuinely curious as, apart from the lack of tab navigation, the UX suits my use cases pretty well.
Re: Leaving Spotify for freer pastures
#15awesome to see somebody else fed up with it. i just did the same about 2-3 months ago and landed on bandcamp (and steam for video game ost's haha). sadly there's still a lot of fragmentation and i'm trying to find other good places to buy DRM free music. (looking for old BTBAM if anyone has an idea)
i do have vinyl as well for some of my favorites. but digital is still my primary listening mode.
Re: Leaving Spotify for freer pastures
#16I don't think I've ever been introduced to artists I wouldn't have listened to otherwise through Spotify.
In general I find Spotify's recommendation to be slightly worse than just listening to the radio.
I don't have a good alternative at the moment though. A long time ago I built a music recommendation system based on Discogs that made a vector space based on the genres and then found the most similar albums of one album. When I listened to a track I'd then lookup the album for the track, find the most similar albums and then play some random songs from those albums, but with some controls to make larger jumps possible. It was not using a vector database like FAISS so it was kinda slow and had other issues and with too much bitrot I'd need a complete rewrite to get it working again, but I found lots of new music with it.
Maybe there's some services like that out there now that can hook up to streaming services like Spotify?
Re: Leaving Spotify for freer pastures
#17awesome to see somebody else fed up with it. i just did the same about 2-3 months ago and landed on bandcamp (and steam for video game ost's haha). sadly there's still a lot of fragmentation and i'm trying to find other good places to buy DRM free music. (looking for old BTBAM if anyone has an idea) i do have vinyl as well for some of my favorites. but digital is still my primary listening mode.
It's really quite a shame how few options there are for buying music, especially with apple music no longer allowing to buy stuff. I recently got into Japanese classic city pop, and was surprised to find that there were several japanese sites that sold digital, drm free music still.
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Re: Leaving Spotify for freer pastures
#19I don't think I've ever been introduced to artists I wouldn't have listened to otherwise through Spotify. In general I find Spotify's recommendation to be slightly worse than just listening to the radio. I don't have a good alternative at the moment though. A long time ago I built a music recommendation system based on Discogs that made a vector space based on the genres and then found the most similar albums of one…
Everyone seems to hate YouTube recommendations but as someone who mostly use YouTube to listen to music their recommendations are amazing.
Re: Leaving Spotify for freer pastures
#20I genuinly want to stop giving Spotify my money because of the increasingly horrible user experience. But the sheer investment I have there in the form of more than ten year's worth of curated lists and folders makes it damn near impossible to leave without abandoning pretty much my entire "music library" which it has become at this point.
I exported all my spotify data by going to Account > Privacy Settings on their website and requesting all the data that I could get. This included: -Playlists -Streaming history for the past year (you can request history for the lifetime of your account too) -A list of items saved in your library -Search queries -No. of followers, accounts you follow, and blocked accounts -Payment and subscription data -User data -Fa…
You can also export all of the data about your playlists and library from Spotify's public APIs: developer.spotify.net
Disclaimer: I work for Spotify and specifically on these APIs.