I like the algo. The “discover weekly” playlist continues to recommend new music that I like and didn’t know existed, at least every week or two. And “song radio” is such a good way to keep a vibe going.
I have 8 playlist I’ve been cultivating for like 6 years now, and it’s kind of hard to walk away from that. And I’ll fuck the dirt before I go back and re-make them lol.
Use something like Soundizz to transfer your playlists. Simple and takes like 5 minutes. I transferred everything (playlists, favorite songs, followed artists) from Spotify to Tidal without issue.
It didn’t originally have lyrics so free users are not really losing anything.
EDIT: they created an incredible UI around a service that upended the music industry and y’all are mad that they’re charging to use some extra features? u still have your music for free. they probably shouldn’t have had a feature free and then charged for it, but in the end you still have free music. what free streaming service is better?
correct me if I’m wrong, but all other major streaming services have lyrics behind paywall (Apple, Amazon, Tidal). with Spotify having the largest user base, it makes sense to try to get some users to switch rather than keep a feature free that their competitors require subscription for.
I tried Apple Music recently, and while I wasn’t impressed by the platform, one thing I was legitimately taken aback by was how much effort they put into the lyrics. The little animations as the lyrics follow the song, where the words move in different ways based on the song in question, it’s really aesthetically pleasing.
Some of the animations definitely feel programmed by employees who are genuine fans of the artist; it doesn’t feel generic or auto generated. The little ways the animations move along with certain inflections in the singer’s delivery, or react to minor shifts in tone. There’s some care being taken with them, song by song. I was legitimately impressed, and I seldom ever have anything nice to say about Apple.
It wasn’t enough to keep me paying for it but I genuinely enjoyed it quite a bit.
Deezer (paid for flac - lossless files) + Deemix-gui + Jellyfin + Symfonium works quite well. Though you need to have a media server, so not exactly a drop-in replacement.
Go with YouTube music. If you can’t find what you want, upload it yourself to YouTube under the Music category. I’ve done this with my own music, and preservations of music I love. I can’t think of another service that allows this.
My experience got noticably worse that time they tried to make their UI look like tictok. I cancelled and deleted my account and have been on tidal ever since.
I switched from Spotify when they cut my family off of my plan because some of them don’t always live with me. I like Tidal a lot, but wish it was easier for me to share a song with friends who don’t use it. Ironically, I don’t think any family members but my dad actually use my Tidal plan, so basically I just switched out of spite.
My Spotify “family” is all over the place. They just all put in my address when they join and don’t have any problems. Just fyi for yourself or anyone else experiencing the same problem.
To them I say: imagine if you had a calculator app that you only ever used for basic addition. Then the calculator app removed the subtraction, multiplication, and division functions. It may would not seem like a big deal to you, but that doesn’t mean the app hasn’t gotten less useful.
It’s true that they shouldn’t be baiting in with an unsustainable free version, but this is essentially paywalling the subtraction function, not removing it
My biggest problem is the censure. I’m in my car, “hey google play teenage dirt bag on spotify”. Sounds great until the “her boyfriends a dick he brings a [silence]. And he’d simply kick my ass…”
Or Jay-Z story of OJ : “rich jigga, poor jigga, house jigga, field jigga”
What? Seriously loses all context and meaning.
Spotify redefining the message of whatever was happening… Some cracker ass Swedish company censuiring the n-word when used by an artform that is legitimate and on purpose.
That’s why I collect vinyl. Can’t change that shit up on my listening it. It’s the way it is. If Jay Z wanted to use the N word then I want to hear it like it is. Not some bullshit “jigga” shit wtf is that? Isn’t it denying his message?
It’s because of this disgusting American cultural puritanism, I don’t know why but Americans especially the boomer cunts lose their shit at the first sight of a slur
Granted I haven’t used Spotify for anything but an alarm clock ever since I canceled my premium a year ago, but what censorship are you talking about? 80% of my listening time before I quit was rap and I can assure you, there was a lot of bad language. Most albums and singles that have clean versions have a dirty version as well. Back in the day, clean and dirty were listed as separate albums, but they changed it so that it’s one listing and you have to somehow pick which version you want to look at/listen to/add to playlists. But maybe they changed that again I don’t know. I also vaguely remember there being a user setting for showing explicit content, but I’m not sure.
When you request a song through voice (like in your car), it’ll default to clean versions of songs. Even if your settings are allowing explicit lyrics.
I think most people don’t realize how little money online ads make. Companies resort to it because people won’t pay for every little thing they use, but it’s not a lucrative endeavor. Reason why so many newspapers are shutting down and companies getting desperate after the VC money ran out.
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I don’t know why anyone pays for Spotify anymore when there are others that are less and are lossless and include shit they are now taking away.
Such as?
Last I checked there’s still no alternative that doesn’t require some sacrifices.
Which service would you recommend?
Spotify Connect usually works really well, I can use it on Linux, it’s relatively cheap.
I don’t see any reason to switch tbh.
The main argument i hear is the recommendation algorithm but it’s really subjective
I like the algo. The “discover weekly” playlist continues to recommend new music that I like and didn’t know existed, at least every week or two. And “song radio” is such a good way to keep a vibe going.
I have 8 playlist I’ve been cultivating for like 6 years now, and it’s kind of hard to walk away from that. And I’ll fuck the dirt before I go back and re-make them lol.
There are services that will migrate playlists. They’re not perfect, but I’ve seen them work before. I can’t remember the one I used.
I’ve used SongShift. It told me which items were missing after the transfer.
That sounds familiar. I think I used it too. Thanks!
Use something like Soundizz to transfer your playlists. Simple and takes like 5 minutes. I transferred everything (playlists, favorite songs, followed artists) from Spotify to Tidal without issue.
It didn’t originally have lyrics so free users are not really losing anything.
EDIT: they created an incredible UI around a service that upended the music industry and y’all are mad that they’re charging to use some extra features? u still have your music for free. they probably shouldn’t have had a feature free and then charged for it, but in the end you still have free music. what free streaming service is better?
Google users didn’t originally have gmail, so if Google paywalls it nobody is losing anything?
Apples to oranges
That seems like egg plant to aubergine to me
Haha more like eggplant to farmers market.
Some features makes sense to be behind paywalls like the ai dj feature but basic features that was previously free is ridiculous
correct me if I’m wrong, but all other major streaming services have lyrics behind paywall (Apple, Amazon, Tidal). with Spotify having the largest user base, it makes sense to try to get some users to switch rather than keep a feature free that their competitors require subscription for.
I have an issue with free features becoming behind a paywall no matter which company do it. I have no issue with new pro features to be added
fair. in your opinion, it should have never been free to begin with.
Yes, i wouldn’t mind
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I tried Apple Music recently, and while I wasn’t impressed by the platform, one thing I was legitimately taken aback by was how much effort they put into the lyrics. The little animations as the lyrics follow the song, where the words move in different ways based on the song in question, it’s really aesthetically pleasing.
Some of the animations definitely feel programmed by employees who are genuine fans of the artist; it doesn’t feel generic or auto generated. The little ways the animations move along with certain inflections in the singer’s delivery, or react to minor shifts in tone. There’s some care being taken with them, song by song. I was legitimately impressed, and I seldom ever have anything nice to say about Apple.
It wasn’t enough to keep me paying for it but I genuinely enjoyed it quite a bit.
Deezer (paid for flac - lossless files) + Deemix-gui + Jellyfin + Symfonium works quite well. Though you need to have a media server, so not exactly a drop-in replacement.
Go with YouTube music. If you can’t find what you want, upload it yourself to YouTube under the Music category. I’ve done this with my own music, and preservations of music I love. I can’t think of another service that allows this.
They won’t hit you for copyright violations if you upload someone else’s music?
I thought this meant on top of Premium and I was about to be pissed.
But honestly, Spotify is one of the only companies where I don’t feel like my experience has gotten noticeably worse over my time using it.
My experience got noticably worse that time they tried to make their UI look like tictok. I cancelled and deleted my account and have been on tidal ever since.
I switched from Spotify when they cut my family off of my plan because some of them don’t always live with me. I like Tidal a lot, but wish it was easier for me to share a song with friends who don’t use it. Ironically, I don’t think any family members but my dad actually use my Tidal plan, so basically I just switched out of spite.
My Spotify “family” is all over the place. They just all put in my address when they join and don’t have any problems. Just fyi for yourself or anyone else experiencing the same problem.
Always people that come along and say this.
To them I say: imagine if you had a calculator app that you only ever used for basic addition. Then the calculator app removed the subtraction, multiplication, and division functions. It may would not seem like a big deal to you, but that doesn’t mean the app hasn’t gotten less useful.
It’s true that they shouldn’t be baiting in with an unsustainable free version, but this is essentially paywalling the subtraction function, not removing it
My biggest problem is the censure. I’m in my car, “hey google play teenage dirt bag on spotify”. Sounds great until the “her boyfriends a dick he brings a [silence]. And he’d simply kick my ass…”
Or Jay-Z story of OJ : “rich jigga, poor jigga, house jigga, field jigga”
What? Seriously loses all context and meaning.
Spotify redefining the message of whatever was happening… Some cracker ass Swedish company censuiring the n-word when used by an artform that is legitimate and on purpose.
That’s why I collect vinyl. Can’t change that shit up on my listening it. It’s the way it is. If Jay Z wanted to use the N word then I want to hear it like it is. Not some bullshit “jigga” shit wtf is that? Isn’t it denying his message?
It’s because of this disgusting American cultural puritanism, I don’t know why but Americans especially the boomer cunts lose their shit at the first sight of a slur
Remember Carlin’s famous bit?
Wtf? Just could not believe, had to check it out for myself. What’s wrong with people.
Granted I haven’t used Spotify for anything but an alarm clock ever since I canceled my premium a year ago, but what censorship are you talking about? 80% of my listening time before I quit was rap and I can assure you, there was a lot of bad language. Most albums and singles that have clean versions have a dirty version as well. Back in the day, clean and dirty were listed as separate albums, but they changed it so that it’s one listing and you have to somehow pick which version you want to look at/listen to/add to playlists. But maybe they changed that again I don’t know. I also vaguely remember there being a user setting for showing explicit content, but I’m not sure.
When you request a song through voice (like in your car), it’ll default to clean versions of songs. Even if your settings are allowing explicit lyrics.
Ok. That definitely sucks, but I wouldn’t say that’s Spotify censoring anything. It’s just trash UX.
Censure is me yelling at you for using the wrong word.
People being so cheap and refusing to pay 5-15$/mo for unlimited music streaming. What a weird reality we’re living in 🙄
I pay for a Spotify family plan and my mom, sister, cousin, and I all use it daily. It’s worth it imo.
looks like shit
And enshittification continues…
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Piracy is coming back, and this time the tech has matured.
Paying for premium gives more money to artists. Most artists besides the mega stars really need it.
You make it sound as if artists could get compensated properly on Spotify if some more people paid for premium.
I think most people don’t realize how little money online ads make. Companies resort to it because people won’t pay for every little thing they use, but it’s not a lucrative endeavor. Reason why so many newspapers are shutting down and companies getting desperate after the VC money ran out.
You know what gives artists money? Buying their music instead of renting it through a middleman.