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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.
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.
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 .
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!
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
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.
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.
hell no
Sailing the high seas ,is the way ,yep
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
That's why I originally went Google music. I thought Spotify was garbage and didn't have that shit I wanted, still true today 🤣
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.
