I canceled as soon as I read about it. Have been a premium user since it was available in my country. Didn’t know about the shady shit…
Stream your own for only a few bucks a year (price for a domain name)
Navidrome + Feishin are a killer combo for replacing Spotify.
Symfonium provides a similar UX on Android.
(The only thing I’m lacking is playlist synchronization and, as far as I can tell, no such homelab software exists to do it.)
Feishin on pc
Amperfly on ios
Big fan of Feishin!
For iOS I’ve always used play:Sub, but will give Amperfy a try!
price for a domain name
Or host your own VPN on home network. Or use Tailscale VPN, that also works behind CG-NAT, and can usually get direct connection.
Spotify has been garbage for so long. I left when the Joe Rogan stuff got so bad and artists were demanding to have their music removed from Spotify in response.
You can buy music and maintain your own personal collection. It was not as hard as I thought it would be and the quality is so much higher. Artists get more of the money as well from you.
Where do you buy music?
7 Digital and Bandcamp
Both owned by Songtradr, I prefer to use Qobuz
People still buy music?
I’ve started buying music
I even buy vinyls
I just buy cds 5 for a $1 @ GW and rip to pc, transfer to phone. Got almost 100GB
I’ve noticed people haven’t been talking about it anywhere near as much in the last few years. I used them briefly, but at the time you couldn’t do things like download an album without making a playlist with that album in it.
It was very weird.
And if want to stream your music on the go, setting up something like jellyfin or plex works really well
So glad I have never given a dime to that fucking company.
TIDAL pays much more to the artists anyway.
Spotify < Tidal < Selfhosted
My library is not yet at a point where I can completely abandon streaming services.
So does Qobuz!
True, although Qobuz targets a slightly different audience.
I am super conflicted about this, that despite the fact I saw this article when it was released, I did not share it.
The reason being, (Helsing) The company he is investing in is suppling drones to Ukraine.
Further more, while I highly recommend buycotting Spotify in general, due to their anti-consumer practices and their shitty treatment for the artists and their use of DRM, I can’t really stand behind and defend boycotting every defense tech investor.
Basically, I can call for boycotting investors who invest in defense tech companies that supply tech to the evil sides. I can’t really do the same for all the defense tech companies in the world.
I can’t really stand behind and defend boycotting every defense tech investor.
I can. Easily.
