I’m so confused. Couldn’t you always pick what track you wanted to play?
Move to Qobuz which is more ethical
I haven’t used Spotify, until recently, since it was first released. Its big value over Pandora was that it let you choose what to listen to…when did that change?
I’m using spotx on Linux so I don’t get ads, can search individual songs, etc. I thought the free tier was just ad supported, I didn’t realize that they didn’t let you pick what you wanted to listen to.
only premium subscribers could pick individual tracks previously
What a ripoff.
Oh, there’s a Spotx for Windows too. There ya go, anybody using Spotify free who doesn’t want to buy into the tiering enshittification go patch your Spotify client. No ads, pick your own tracks, like Spotify used to be when it was a new and a good value for the service.
I’m just too lazy to find a music private tracker and setup Lidarr, I’ll do that eventually and then just stream through Jellyfin like one of the cool kids.
Move to Qobuz which is more ethical
When I was making money, I’d buy albums from bands I liked. Built up a nice library.
I’ve not seen anyone recommend an alternative like Qobuz in these “fuck spotify” discussions - I think it’s a good honest alternative?
I use Musify on Android. (From the F-Droid store) It pulls the music off of YouTube and works pretty well. Save playlists,download individual songs, it has recommendations but u didn’t know how they work.
I recommend <your jellyfin instance>.
Jokes aside, the only reason I use Spotify is for discovery and the vast catalog (primarily the JP music market).
And I havent seen Qobuz be mentioned in any capacity by japanese artists.I was looking to try Qobuz, but they didn’t like my email domain, so skipped it.
I switched to Qobuz, it’s great!
Call me a hardcore Spotify fan boy: I paid for Spotify for 15 years, I loved it, I even applied to worked for them. The product was great and unmatched so as I didn’t care about the problems, so many problems. things were getting progressively more problematic but in the end, King Gizzard convinced me to quit. I don’t regret it a single minute. Fuck Spotify.
wow the music app finally lets users select music! I’m sad that this is actually something to look forward to.
Be happy it was free and ads could probably be blocked.
Would you appreciate it more if they blocked the view of the library like the videostreamers like Netflix or D+ do?Idk I haven’t used the free tier of Spotify in a decade. I think add supported listening is enough and all features should be available to the free user except offline listening.
Easier to let users play music for free when you don’t pay the artists I guess
None of you were. Y’all were stealing it for years.
Lol, I’m a vinyl nerd, I’ve probably given more money to the music industry than to anything else except food
Rent?
Touché. Gotta admit I didn’t think it through properly, there’s probably a bunch of other things as well. Point is I think I’ve provided the music industry with more money than it strictly deserves.
Especially with the price of concerts these days. Jesus.
Is this the onion? They add the basic feature of a media player where you can listen the title you clicked and not random stuff? If I understood correctly, this is not a feature, it’s just a restriction being removed
The mobile application has always had this restriction for free users (as far as I know), but the desktop application has not.
I’m glad I avoided the spotify bug ever since I saw it.
You guys use spotify ?
It’s probably the most popular music streaming service at the moment.
Sure, for the morally bankrupt
Who is any better? Literally all are paying pennies to the artist per stream.
Tidal pays more than 3x what Spotify pays. Qobuz pays like 5-6x.
Some people buy albums
hell no
Sailing the high seas ,is the way ,yep
No, it’s not. Even more so if you like your artists.
Buy their merch rather than feeding the beast
Even if that was ok, I’m sure people who pirate buy a ton of merch from all the artists they pirate, that’s why all those artists get a ton of money.
I’m sure that small to medium artists don’t get fleeced by Spotify and get a ton of money from a service that almost everyone in the west is using. /s
Some more things I’m sure of include that Spotify exists for the artists and won’t sneakily replace them with Suno-generated shit at first opportunity or fuck with people’s legacy of holy playlists or make the interface more cumbersome to alter users’ habits, or increase the price until the frogs start jumping out. It’s allowed to exists through the graces of biggest publishing conglomerates whose C-suite and shareholders get the lion’s share. Fuck fucking Spotify.
I’m sure they are on Spotify (which is shitty anyway) and other streaming services by choice. And if you are against streaming services, feel free to buy their albums.
Yeah. Just started my self hosting journey a few months ago, looking to replace Spotify at some point. I got a NAS with Jellyfin set up, my next step is replacing Google photos with Immich probably.
I do appreciate Spotify will be adding lossless music soon, but they have so many other issues.
Plexamp.
YouTube, but yes it’s insanely popular and an excellent value.
Arrrr
K. Still waiting on the lossless that supposedly dropped
Keep waiting then lol
Or you’ve been using spotube and been doing this all along
Spotube doesn’t actually use the Spotify API. They used to use the Spotify API for their music database, but they stopped when they received a cease and desist.
They’ve updated the app and you can again! You just need to select an external metadata provider. If you use Sonic Liberation, you can log into spotify again just like before. https://spotube.krtirtho.dev/downloads/
Oh my, things have changed fast. I wasn’t aware there were other metadata providers. There I go spreading misinformation again.
