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Re: Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

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Post by iamsaitam »

totallygeeky wrote: post #59

For anyone looking for a spotify alternative, please join me in making a better, self-hosted spotify! 1.) Buy music when you can, and when you can't, pirate! 2.) Run Gonic(1)! (or whatever you want, I'm not in charge of what you do at the end of the day, but Gonic is a.) very light, and b.) a subsonic(2) server, so it's compatible with anything that supports that family of services) 2a.) How you run it is up to prefe…

1. Buy music when you can, and when you can't, listen to what you own, don't steal.

there, fixed it for you

Re: Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

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Post by jemmyw »

e40 wrote: post #93

I would love to cancel and move to something else. Recently tried Apple Music and I was appalled at how bad it was. The ui/ux of Spotify isn’t great, and has gotten worse over the years, but Apple Music’s was downright terrible. I stuck it out for a week and then deleted the app.

YouTube isn't too bad. I preferred it but moving the whole family over was too hard

Re: Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

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Post by pjmlp »

sequin wrote: post #7

I left Spotify years ago. Youtube is so much nicer in terms of content alone. But Youtube, with its insane backlog of video's not available elsewhere, is straight up a monopoly, so they too will start squeezing customers at some point. In anticipation of that I've been collecting flacs again. It's actually kind of a nice hobby.

I never used Spotify, get to use YouTube to find out about new artists, but what I get to play are plain old MP3, either bought directly as such, or taken from music albums that I still buy with some regularity, ideally directly from bands after attending their concert, if they happen to sell some afterwards.

Re: Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

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Post by piva00 »

shimman wrote: post #71
piva00 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does work, I just did on my app, swiping right will show an icon to add to queue on the left side of the track, slide it until it's green. The iPhone app is not Electron, it's a native app.

This appears to only work for songs, this action does not work for podcasts or playlists. Wow! What bad engineering culture, likely only caring about what's in the ticket and not the feature overall. I guess this is what happens to a product after spending a decade only hiring people who can do leetcode.

There's no leetcode interviewing at Spotify as far as I know.

Re: Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

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Post by anotherhadi »

fdghrtbrt wrote: post #37
shimman wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spotify has always been garbage software long before LLMs. PM/devs like to justify their constant a/b testing to gamify metrics to curry raises/promotions but for end users all we're dealt with is a constantly broken/changing UI. My biggest peeve with Spotify UI is how hard it is to add something to your current playing queue, an action I would assume is quite common but you have to scroll down to hit several control…

Keep doing. Hearing people complain about streaming software, when they could be playing their sounds locally with free software, makes my day every day.

But Spotify is so much simpler.. And recommendations are great

Re: Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

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Post by utdoctor »

e40 wrote: post #93

I would love to cancel and move to something else. Recently tried Apple Music and I was appalled at how bad it was. The ui/ux of Spotify isn’t great, and has gotten worse over the years, but Apple Music’s was downright terrible. I stuck it out for a week and then deleted the app.

Could you share what you didn’t like about Apple Music? As a previously long time Spotify user I initially was put off by Apple Music but have been using it for the past 5-6 years and have come to really enjoy it.

Re: Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

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Post by fainpul »

rchaud wrote: post #72
OptionOfT wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like they have the same problem all software companies have as soon as the MBAs took over. Metrics, not for the purpose of making the software better, but to justify someone's existence in the company.

The MBAs work in the interests of the C-suite. It's their stat-padding that's made Daniel Ek a billionnaire despite running losses for 99% of the time he's led the company.

And the C-suite works for the shareholders. And the shareholders exploit the current economical system etc.

Most problems which keep cropping up are systemic. Learn about the system that produces the problem to find the root cause. Put the crowbar there.

Re: Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

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Post by ianschmitz »

e40 wrote: post #93

I would love to cancel and move to something else. Recently tried Apple Music and I was appalled at how bad it was. The ui/ux of Spotify isn’t great, and has gotten worse over the years, but Apple Music’s was downright terrible. I stuck it out for a week and then deleted the app.

I moved over to Tidal recently. Haven’t missed Spotify
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