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Re: Goodbye Spotify

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Post by mrangle »

Liberal Joe Rogan is "questionable"? GMAB.. I mean he's open to questions so...

I find it to be socially toxic that anyone expects massive companies to tailor their content to one's narrow sensibilities. Furthermore, the complaints rarely if ever go the other way in terms of platforming middle-of-the road personalities that land on the other side of the line. Though, they could in-volume. Man, was it terrrrible when the Smartless crew had Rachel Maddow on their show. Grumble grumble...unsubscribe...grumble

Re: Goodbye Spotify

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Post by cramjabsyn »

COGlory wrote: post #2

Music consumption has basically never been in a better place. What Spotify pays artists, and how many employees at Bandcamp get laid off are minor, in the big picture. My music consumption goes something like this: 1) Queue up a known band on Spotify. See what else similar to them Spotify puts into a playlist 2) Listen to the new music, decide what I like or don't like 3) Head over to Bandcamp or Discogs with the stu…

Music has never been in a better place? Do you work for Spotify?

Musicians are largely struggling while a few giant corps take all the money. Thats not a good place at all.

I think you are conflating “music” with “music consumers”

Re: Goodbye Spotify

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Post by 1letterunixname »

hennyting wrote: post #18
readthenotes1 wrote: post #4

I like Pandora's music stations (playing music like an artist), and reports are apparently that it is better than others for that But they pay little to the artists. What do you use?

I've used Pandora for years but I'm switching to Spotify. Pandora's catalogue is tiny in comparison. And I don't care if they sponsor "questionable" podcasters (A.K.A Joe Rogan). In fact, that honestly makes me want to invest more in Spotify. I can listen to the latest obscure NYCHC and know that my music provider isn't being censored by CISA.

In ATX, but I don't give a shit about Joe Rogan either because he's a moron hit in the head one too many times which somehow translates into a celebrated champion of anti-intellectualism. Censorship, by customers or a platform, is cure worse than the disease.

Another example: Pluto TV (run by Paramount) hosts as much hate as AM radio in the form of OAN, Blaze, Newsmax, and (previously) RT America, OTOH they have Scripps, Cheddar, and Sky News.

Moral purity is the privilege of extremists appeasing their tribe through conformity to closed-mindedness and foot-stomping that they must live in a voluntary intellectual and reality apartheid. The American right and left are both guilty of this, perpetuating a division that was artificially introduced for profit reasons by grifters and widened by different flavors of mass media that promote these spheres of influence.

Re: Goodbye Spotify

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Post by boredemployee »

ccvannorman wrote: post #12
nottheengineer wrote: post #8

The spotify app has become so ridiculously bad I can't use it anymore. I found out about Zotify [1], which can rip my entire collection from spotify. The API rate limits anything faster than real time listening though, so it'll take a few weeks to download everything. [1] https://zotify.xyz/

Thanks for this! I'll be using it. [0] 0: "Let me just open spotify to listen to.. NO, I don't want last year's recap... NO, I don't want to follow my friend's playlist.. NO, I don't want to try browsing your recommended audiobooks.. OK, now that those popups are gone, what was I .. Ah yes! This song, here it is. Play. .... No? Play. It's not playing. Maybe close and reopen the app?" <-- this happens often. Spotify P…

It's all about retention metrics.

Re: Goodbye Spotify

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Post by bjord »

thefourthchime wrote: post #35

Funny, I finally ditched Spotify last week. I just can’t stand the pop up ads, the cluttered interface, and frankly I’m sick of the recommendations. So far I’ve been trying Apple Music, and have liked it so far. I’ve tried in the past but didn’t stick around long enough to learn how to use it. Also, I have HomePods as speakers for my living room tv and found that “streaming” to them using Apple Music isn’t streaming,…

I don't think it makes sense to compare free Spotify to paid Apple Music directly.

Am I confused here? I've personally never seen popup ads in (paid) Spotify, either on mobile or desktop.

Re: Goodbye Spotify

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Post by dwayne_dibley »

COGlory wrote: post #2

Music consumption has basically never been in a better place. What Spotify pays artists, and how many employees at Bandcamp get laid off are minor, in the big picture. My music consumption goes something like this: 1) Queue up a known band on Spotify. See what else similar to them Spotify puts into a playlist 2) Listen to the new music, decide what I like or don't like 3) Head over to Bandcamp or Discogs with the stu…

'head to P2P app of choice' - any recommendations?

Re: Goodbye Spotify

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

tkgally wrote: post #25
COGlory wrote: post #2

Music consumption has basically never been in a better place. What Spotify pays artists, and how many employees at Bandcamp get laid off are minor, in the big picture. My music consumption goes something like this: 1) Queue up a known band on Spotify. See what else similar to them Spotify puts into a playlist 2) Listen to the new music, decide what I like or don't like 3) Head over to Bandcamp or Discogs with the stu…

> Music has never been in a better place. I have to agree. I’m 66 years old. When I was in my late teens, I was intensely into music and doing my best to explore and learn about a variety of genres. It was hard. I couldn’t afford to buy many albums, the music played on the radio was limited, and the only way to hear obscure music that I had read about was to go to a large public or university library and hope that th…

I’m the same age, and totally agree. Sometime in the late 80s or early 90s I decided to figure out what electronic dance music was all about. This was early house and techno times. It was essentially impossible. There was no scene in my city. Now I feel like there’s an embarrassment of riches, more than I could ever listen to.

Re: Goodbye Spotify

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

cramjabsyn wrote: post #42
COGlory wrote: post #2

Music consumption has basically never been in a better place. What Spotify pays artists, and how many employees at Bandcamp get laid off are minor, in the big picture. My music consumption goes something like this: 1) Queue up a known band on Spotify. See what else similar to them Spotify puts into a playlist 2) Listen to the new music, decide what I like or don't like 3) Head over to Bandcamp or Discogs with the stu…

Music has never been in a better place? Do you work for Spotify? Musicians are largely struggling while a few giant corps take all the money. Thats not a good place at all. I think you are conflating “music” with “music consumers”

> Musicians are largely struggling while a few giant corps take all the money.

But that’s the way it has always been.

Re: Goodbye Spotify

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Post by ccakes »

dwayne_dibley wrote: post #46
COGlory wrote: post #2

Music consumption has basically never been in a better place. What Spotify pays artists, and how many employees at Bandcamp get laid off are minor, in the big picture. My music consumption goes something like this: 1) Queue up a known band on Spotify. See what else similar to them Spotify puts into a playlist 2) Listen to the new music, decide what I like or don't like 3) Head over to Bandcamp or Discogs with the stu…

'head to P2P app of choice' - any recommendations?

Soulseek is still around

Re: Goodbye Spotify

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Post by OccamsMirror »

Mistletoe wrote: post #26

I recently said goodbye to Spotify as well. I tried Apple Music and found it sounded significantly better. The muddy quality I am used to with Spotify was gone and I’ve been enjoying music ever since. I really thought there was something wrong with me prior to this. I don’t know if it is the different codecs they use or what. I haven’t even tried the lossless audio yet on Apple Music. So it is just comparing the loss…

I’ve recently made the same move with a similar experience. Out of curiosity though did you try turning off volume normalization in Spotify?
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