I've done it. I've finally reached my "old man yells at cloud" moment. Why, why, WHY is Spotify adding features straight out of the social media playbook?

Anybody have recommendations for alternatives?

In my head there's:

~~YouTube music~~ (google, gross)

~~Apple music~~ (no way they're not on a similar trajectory)

~~Bandcamp~~ (limited, but at least bands see some money from it)

~~SoundCloud~~ (weird reputation, though haven't come back around to it in a good 10 years)

Tidal maybe? Would love to hear some recommendations.

Edit: I neglected to mention why I don't like the messaging feature. I've never used it, yet with a few of my friends there are already dozens of song exchanges in the thread. It's clear that spotify has been using user-specific links for a while now to track who sends what to who. That's a pretty clear anti-feature for me, and is enough to make me jump ship.

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[–] moonburster@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, Apple Music is not that bad. Tried to love tidal but the app just really sucks with frequent crashes and terrible ui.

Thus far Apple Music feels like old apple playing the streaming game and I have yet to find enshitified features being added. Even the recommendations are more in line with my expectations, think of artists with new or upcoming releases that the app knows you’ve been listening too.

Ui wise I still miss Spotify, it WAS just better. But it’s going further from that everyday. Apple Music also has flac quality if that interests you and you don’t have to pay extra for it. In terms of paying artists, tidal still takes the crown and apple is second.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Apple Music also has flac quality if that interests you and you don’t have to pay extra for it

Spotify has this now as well and you don't pay extra for it

[–] moonburster@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

But Spotify adds ai features I don’t ask for

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago

Never left Pandora. Still works exactly like i set it up. Damn, 15years ago?

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's because we live in late stage capitalism. Our systems require infinite growth, so when Spotify tries to grow in an over saturated market. How else can they increase profits? Throw shit from all over the place to see what works. This issue is why every company jumped on the Ai bandwagon because it was the first real leap in a Market since the internet. Problem is 51% of all money spent in America was spent by the top 10% of the population. That top 10% only needs one Spotify subscription per person. The bottom 90% aren't going to waste money anymore on subscription services.

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[–] Freaky@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Try Metrolist for android. I don't know what is available for pc in this manner. And if you're one of the "If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing" people, then there's option to save the mp3 files from both Spotify's and Deezer's database. Any telegram bot titling this kinda thing will do the job.

[–] MichaelHawkinSnider@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the recommendation! I explored the app (hopefully this is the project you were referring to), and I couldn't find an option to connect to Spotify to save MP3s. Can you elaborate or point me in the right direction?

[–] Freaky@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yes. This is the one.

And for the telegram one, go to the searchbar and type : @DeezerMusicBot , then in the chat menu, /start the bot. Choose simple "search" and it'll appear in inline mode. Then type any song title and wait 3-4 seconds for it to appear. You can type Artist's name additionally if the song title is too much common.

After you make the bot appear in inline mode for the fist time in its own inbox, then go to the "Saved Messages" section of telegram and just type @

It should pop up the option to choose the entire bot. If it doesn't, simply continue further writing as shown in the picture and you're good to go.

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[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Its funny how people are still using Spotify when other services exist. But yea people, complain about Spotify and it's features.

Edit: if you don't like something quit it, don't complain. Companies don't understand until numbers start dropping.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I went to Spotify from Tidal because Tidal just didn't have the music I wanted to listen to.

I can't see myself wording until there's is a service that just has all music that I'm able to find through Spotify. Sad but true.

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I went to YouTube music because I found spotify's library way too limiting

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's been a few years since, but the wholesale merging of music as a category with the entirety of YouTube really gets in my craw. Like, thanks, but I don't need or want "8 hours of AI-generated lo-fi chill beats for work and studying by xXx-alphachad69420-xXx" showing up when I'm looking for legitimate art to listen to.

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

That doesn't seem to happen to me on the yt music app ever so idk

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I looked at it but at the time, Spotify wasn't as shit as it is today as a company. I just don't want to give Google my money anymore either.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sadly it's my last remaining payment to Google, hard to beat yt music and yt premium in one package when I use both services so heavily.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I get it. We all just need a better alternative. I'm not holding my breath though

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[–] arsCynic@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And Duolingo now has chess. What a complete joke; both those corporations and the people using everything uncritically.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

At least they went with an intellectual game instead of some brain rot, addictive, pay-to-unlock-levels bullshit.

[–] marighost@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago

I'm content with tidal for now. I mainly listen to music on my desktop, and I like that it's just music. No podcasts or things I don't want to see.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Spotify customers created a bigger evil

[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So, I'm a bit of an enigma, so take my recommendation with a grain of salt. I use Tidal. It does the best, out of all my criteria.

1. Friendly privacy policy. It's very straight forward, and from what my lawyer friend said, it's pretty solid.
1. Hi def streaming. It's a must for me, as I have some nice cans and speakers I wanna listen through.
1. Payout to artists. Although they don't pay as much as Qobuz, they pay a substantial amount relatively, and the aforementioned points make up for the rest.
1. Ease of use. The app is really great and it's easy to use and I find that after curating my music for awhile, I get solid recommendations and the radio stations always hit well. Although, I do wish there was more variety in the stations. Sometimes, it plays the same tracks across stations.

All in all, I'm very happy with Tidal and I don't think I'm switching anytime soon.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

spotify has hi def now

[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Yes, they do. However, they don't meet the criteria of my other three points.

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