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I Quit Spotify

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Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by 12907835202 »

wyager wrote: post #6

I'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…

Pretty sure iPod Classic did this.

But now I imagine most people don't mind looking at the app every 30-90 minutes to choose a new album.

Also just looking at my saved albums in Spotify there's loads of crap in there just because I've downloaded it offline once in the past 10 odd years. A shuffle of these albums would suck.

So they'd probably have to fix the saving/favouring of albums before allowing shuffling of them.

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by rumori »

I moved my family plan from Spotify because they still don’t have an easy to use music locker solution. As an amateur producer I love to have my unreleased music always available. I was already a premium Youtube subscriber to get rid of ads and Youtube music was included. While the UI is not great I can appreciate that it can play and download music from Youtube as well that is not otherwise available on any of the other streaming services. The way Spotify treats third party developers (including myself) with all the unfixed issues being broken for years was just the last nail in the coffin.

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by croo »

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

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by 8bitsrule »

>Of course, there aren’t many alternatives for a comprehensive music-streaming service.

These days there are 10s of 1000s of radio stations with a web presence. From all over the world. Some have live DJs, some use automation, some have special syndicated programs. Over the years I've tried out many hundreds of them for an hour or two. Some are great! Many have multiple programs each day at regular times. It's a whole 'nother world. Some are college stations, some are long-time businesses like SOMA-FM.

I use VLC to listen to them (go to the 'Media' heading, select 'Open Media stream' and paste the URL ... instant play) , and to make a playlist to group stuff by genre or source-type.

Audio-quality-wise, if that's a concern, their bit-rates can vary from 50k to 320k. VLC can tell you that. Not a problem; if I don't like what I'm hearing today, I have lots of lossless favorites from my collection on a drive.

SOMA-FM has a great selection of genres you can try for starters. Or take a walk on the wild side by searching here [0], a site where all station info has been entered by users... including many that might be in your own neighborhood. Copy the URL and plug it into VLC.

[0] https://www.radio-browser.info/#!/

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by nsteel »

wyager wrote: post #6

I'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…

mpd can support this e.g. https://github.com/axujen/mpdrandom

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by rckt »

Interesting how the reasoning is on the UI/algo side when it should be about how artists are treated. I "quit" Spotify or any other streaming service without even subscribing to them.

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by a-french-anon »

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'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 cultivating a similar sound and atmosphere.

I know, I know, this sounds way too pretentious and elitist...

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by sumuyuda »

wyager wrote: post #6

I'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…

If your are on iOS check out Albums, it is built around listening to music in Albums.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/albums-album-focused-player/id...

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