Sounds like a stupid business model. They should keep doing it and see how that works for them.
P.S. You don’t need Spotify. I’m a huge audiophile and I’ve never touched that shit.
if you must have a streaming service YT permium is a better deal anyway. you get both ad free youtube and ad free music, plus any ringfenced features.
That said, the algorithm on YT music isn’t as good, but overall still a better deal than spotify
Well fuck you Spotify. Just closed my account.
it shouldve been a sign when they decided to platform joe roegan.
Yep, that was when I dropped my subscription back then.
tbf, iirc he wasn’t nearly as right wing (at least publicly) when that deal initially happened. BLM protests and COVID is when he went full conservative if my memory serves me right.
he was already getting there, by the start of covid i believe, he was drawing so many men into the manosphere already for conservatives. some ytubers i used to followed started parroting his talking points around that time, and had family members who were into mma started aggressively following him through SC, when they were barely before.
Just buy music, for instance flacs on: https://www.qobuz.com/shop
Then use a local player. Might I recommend: https://github.com/ravachol/kew
Used this as motivation to switch over to tidal this morning - it’s pretty easy, and cheaper per month. And the transfer service I used had something like 99% hit rate. Not too bad for dropping a sub I’ve had for 14 years.
I’m glad I never gave up my home hosted solution. For years, it looked like a dying path. Then I found Navidrome which is doing some great work building off the original Subsonic and the amazing android app Symfonium.
Not comparable to Spotify, but worth checking out nevertheless:
This has been my go-to for twenty years now. They have so many great stations and their holiday stuff is really cool.
Here to second SomaFM, listened to this pretty much constantly in the early 2000s before everything else suggested here existed
Don’t know how I’ve completely missed this for all these years but I’m checking it out on my drive in tomorrow. Thanks for the share!
