• @[email protected]
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    601 month ago

    not only do you pay them to shove more adverts at you, they’re giving a substantial chunk to chuds like rogan all the while stiffing the artists their service is built on.

    nice fucking job.

  • Eager Eagle
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    491 month ago

    I just got a “swipe right or left” ad for duo

    thanks, spotify, for occasionally reminding me I’m single

  • Selyle
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    351 month ago

    Just a reminder that Tidal is amazing, has higher quality audio, a real shuffle, daily playlists, doesn’t shove podcasts in your face, pays artists more, and provides ways to import your playlists over 🩷 I also listen to some pretty obscure music and haven’t had issues not finding songs.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Looked at that and think it will be an option in the near future, but right now Raspotify and Connect are hard to beat.

      Edit: Searching a bit more, it looks like Tidal Connect is actually a thing. I’ll take a good look at switching when my Spotify plan runs out. I’ll be happy to switch to a service that doesn’t screw their artists.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        That repo is an amazing example of something so well documented as to how it works they completely neglected to have even a paragraph explaining what it really does and why I would want to use it.

        As far as I can tell it’s a Spotify connect client which runs as a daemon so you probably need to control it remotely? Kinda like how AirPlay works on apple devices? Is that right?

        • fmstrat
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          21 month ago

          Yea, I run hundreds of self-hosted projects, and I’m clueless.

    • @[email protected]
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      Deleted spotify, now use Soundcloud and Tidal. Reminder soundcloud has by far the most music on it.

      • ms.lane
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        11 month ago

        You can stream all the music you own from Bandcamp directly too.

    • LucasWaffyWaf
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      31 month ago

      Last I’d used Tidal it was still glitchy, missing artists I fancy, with incorrect dates and covers for a number of other artists I like. I’m still on Spotify for now, but with ad-free clients on both my phone and laptop. Is Tidal any better than it was 4 years ago?

      • Selyle
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        41 month ago

        It’s been super solid for me! They are constantly improving categorization, and they are always on top of reported issues. I absolutely love that they provide patch notes with every update!

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        Tidal has like everyone now. Even a few that weren’t on spotify in my experience. Its like 2$ to extend the free trial to 2 months so you can really get a feel for it.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m just waiting for either Tidal or Qobuz to offer good non-English (Japanese) support sike… I tested both. Apps were solid themselves but I’d appreciate it if I don’t have to try English, Japanese, romaji (Japanese phonetics) every time I search for something

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      I have always liked apple music, hated the first ui change, its finally good again now, near perfect

      • Selyle
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        21 month ago

        I believe Apple Music is solid, and if I’m not mistaken, pays artists the most. I was super considering it when I was looking for alternatives!

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        Every complaint ppl had about queing was valid but is gone now, it improved a lot at some point last 2 years, I always liked finding related artists on there and if you like edm so many livesets remastered for apple music

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m checking out Tidal right now. Is there a way to import the playlists that doesn’t cost money?

      When you say “a real shuffle” what do you mean?

      So far the audio quality is noticeably better and I have both set to maximum quality. Only complaint so far is that they seem to combine artists of same or similar names. For example, it was tough to find Wolves without it confusing different artists of the same name. I found a metal core band from Milwaukee of the same name which I like, but I was looking for a band from the early 2000’s from Massachusetts. Once I found them, Tidal lists other artists’ albums under the more albums section.

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        When I moved over a few years ago, there were a few different services that could migrate playlists. I did remember some having a cap that you had to pay to increase, but I believe I eventually found one that let me move them all for free.

        One of the reasons I quit Spotify was that their shuffle seemed oddly weighted. It would try to detect songs that it thought I wanted to listen to and always prioritize those in the shuffle. Turning off its smart shuffle didn’t seem to help either 🤷‍♀️ I do occasionally find artists with the same name grouped together, but this is something I’ve seen them addressing in their patch notes. They are really on top of reported issues.

        • ElectricMachman
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          21 month ago

          I had Spotify on shuffle once, and it played the same song twice in a row. On two separate occasions.

          • Selyle
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            11 month ago

            Exaaaactly! It could be a super cool feature if they gave users a way to add and adjust weights to songs- higher ones played more often and lower less, or if they let songs be hibernated - they stay in a playlist but won’t play until woken up.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          Yeah. I’m not a fan of their shuffle either. I sometimes want music I’ve never heard before. Supposedly their discover weekly playlist is what provides this but it’s always full of covers of songs I already regularly listen to.

    • @[email protected]
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      Tidal doesn’t respect disabling explicit content, and it also dropped crossfading.

      As buggy as it is sometimes, Deezer is where I’m at.

  • Theo
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    251 month ago

    I guess they don’t count their own ads

  • @[email protected]
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    231 month ago

    “Hello, spotify? I’d like to cancel…well because you don’t know what words mean.”

  • @[email protected]
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    181 month ago

    Don’t worry, if you switch to Duo the messages don’t stop. They just change to “Upgrade now to a Family Plan!”

    • ms.lane
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      11 month ago

      I’m afraid to ask- what if you get the family plan?

      • Bizzle
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        81 month ago

        They convince you to start a second family with your mistress in Atlantic City

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        They might summom up a family super version and limit the family plan to 3 people, so you need super if you have 2 kids lol

        • ms.lane
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          31 month ago

          Ah Family Plus.

          I guess if they want to listen on a different IP addresses, you’ll need Family Plus Mobility

  • LiveLM
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    121 month ago

    “So everyone in the couple can enjoy…”
    But there’s only two people, you said it’s a couple???
    Does this read weird to anyone else?

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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      They’re trying (and failing) to be cute. Like saying “all two of us”. “everyone in the couple”, because it’s called Duo. Personally, if I had Spotify, this ad would be the last straw to make me cancel.

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    You know- mStream, Plex, Jellyfin, Lyrion, Yunohost and Navidrome are all free ;)

    Join us! /c/selfhosted

    • yeehaw
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      I don’t know what all of these are but surely it can’t be at search some song and tap and listen?

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        Of course not. You need other software to rip your music from physical media, or potentially multiple other software to search and download them. You’ll need additional software to host everything over the internet. You’ll probably want a computer to act as a server. You’ll very likely need a private VPN to be able to access it over the public internet. You’ll need some networking knowledge to set everything up. Hope you’re familiar with docker. And afterwards you’ll have to manage everything yourself once they are up.

        Even if you don’t search for new music very often it’s a lot of work. If you care about being able to discover new music then it’s pretty bad. There’s a reason music streaming exploded in popularity so quickly. This shit is not easy or convenient to self-host. At all. If you’re already selfhosting a bunch of stuff, then it might be worth it to add this stack on top of your existing stuff. But absolutely not worth building anything from scratch just for this.

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          I already self host and have some of those services, and do always on vpn. I just haven’t found a reliable method to rip my Spotify playlists since the API went down. I used to just cron job it, so my plex was in sync and use plexamp on my phone.

          • WrittenInRed [any]
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            I personally used spotdl when I wanted to transfer my music off of Spotify. It does unfortunately only download from YouTube which means its not 100% successful, it missed a handful of songs for me and 1 or 2 had an incorrect version altogether (like 10 hour loops, etc.). Overall it was like more than 99% correct for my playlist of around 2000 songs though, and its super easy to use especially in either a python or shell script since its a python library with a cli built in. There are definitely other options I don’t know about, some of which are probably better tbh, but spotdl has been good enough for me personally at least.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      It looks like Jellyfin + Mopidy will do the same thing as Spotify Connect which is my most used app/service. Will take a closer look. Self host various other things so adding a new app wouldn’t be an issue. Thanks for the list.

  • Comrade Spood
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    I am so glad I swapped to downloading my music rather than streaming. Fuck Spotify and every other streaming service. Owning my music is more important to me than any level of “convenience” those services pretend to offer

    • ms.lane
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      Plus you can make it just as convenient by self-hosting your own streaming service from home!

      • Comrade Spood
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        Oh do you have any recommendations on how to do that? I’ve just been using Syncthing which works fine, but I’m curious if you have better ways of doing it

    • @[email protected]
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      I just wish i could buy and use cd’s still, the artists used to see more money and i got to use the music in whatever device i decided.

      • Comrade Spood
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        21 month ago

        I’ve been building up my collection by browsing my local Bullmoose (idk how widespread that store is) and other places that sell CDs. I’ve got a disk reader a friend gave me to rip them.

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    Use Spotube, a Spotify client that’s available via F-Droid or it’s official site

    That’s all. Enjoy free Spotify premium-like user experience. You can also log in with your already existing Spotify acc for convenience

    • @[email protected]
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      Nice. Any chance my existing spotify accound could get banned or something? I want some QOL changes but am afraid of losing ~400 playlists…

    • Rose56
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      Thanks mate !!! Thats a great app!! To be true lately a lot users share their apps, you guys give amazing solutions!

      I dropped YouTube app and I use newpipe, now I can use spotube as a replacement to Spotify.

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        I had the same Wow! experience when I first heard about this app. One can’t literally tell which apps UI is the official one lol

        Glad to hear others like it too!