i hate hate hate hate (hate) that spotify is shoving podcasts into my face when I open the app, now even in the form of tiktok-slop style short-form videos, because fuck you that's why I guess, and my assumption is that it will only get worse from here. to add insult to injury it's political stuff. LEAVE ME ALONE. i just want to listen to some music ffs
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Switch to Tidal, they also pay artist better
Sir the CIA needs you to listen. It’s the new MSM, don’t you know? Lots of money in podcasting, even though everyone has a podcast
Dumped Spotify after I went Apple one so I could add my mom and keep her digital world safe and I think Apple Music is superior. Spotify is a social media site now.
Keep calm and use
@Fountain ?
Or mp3 for music I guess? 😬
Will probably do the same.
The reason people use Spotify et al, myself included, is because curating and maintaining a stash of mp3 files is a full-time job.
Apple
"it's the new MSM" was my thought exactly
Hopefully someone will raise the flag and vibe code better alternative 🤞
I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing exactly that. I've had enough.
There's plenty of alternatives, and I have and use plenty (innertune, musicolet, plain old VLC, etc). But after years of use there's always on thing missing, or one feature that doesn't work right, or some other annoying issue and thus I still use Spotify quite a bit. But I hate it.
That sounds frustrating, but got it.
Daniel Elk isn't a real elk. Fuck that guy. He doesn't pay musicians and has a weird kink for surevellance death tech also.
Spotify is dead to me.
How do you think Apple Music?!
Embarrassing
Qobuz is great!
Yeah moved to tidall cause of that + imo Spotify UX sucks.
Move to Qobuz
Just hit shuffle on LNBeats.com or find/build a playlist at V4VMusic.com and hear some stuff you never heard before. 😁 I like Temples (instrumental rock with some Zelda inspiration) and HeyCitizen's lo-fi album for productivity.
And obviously you can listen to them on your favorite new podcasting app... But here's some album links:
Podcastindex.org
Youth | Podcastindex.org
Youth was recorded over the span of an entire year--June 1st, 2013 to approximately June 3rd, 2014. The record is comprised of songs that Temples c...
Podcastindex.org
HeyCitizen's Lo-Fi Hip-Hop Beats to Study and Relax to | Podcastindex.org
beats to study/relax to
What, do you use Spotify?!
Reminds me of people complaining about fiat when theres an alternative
Oh cool, it can play Lana Del Rey!
I think it's first in podcasts
I got countless mp3s that are not labeled to tagged at all, which forces me to just play shuffle through all of them, and I kinda enjoy that chaos.
this is all the internet brother - we’re under attack - interests of shareholders are superseding needs and desires of clients - unsustainable
i have reverted to torrent and bought an mp3 player
vote with capital - only way out
I’ve been looking into the 🏴☠️ route
If you have the time you should request a data dump from Spotify takes them couple of weeks if you want the useful full account log.
Funny after I clicked the link
The world was better when we ripped CDs and shared MP3s on thumb drives. So much music was moving around my high school.
No lies detected.
Amen.
I love podcastindex and V4V music and #DeMu and everything, but I hate the current iteration of the internet.
Podcastindex.org has been getting slammed with spam feeds lately so that might be why.
The age of short form AI slop podcasts to get ad revenue is here and causing issues.
Advertising ruins everything.
Ain't that the truth.
View quoted note →In your own sin comes the punishment
Go #vinyl and quit whining
View quoted note →Are you using spotify for music?
Most phones have enough memory on them nowadays to hold everything you listen to locally!
Yeah this is one reason piracy might make a comeback. Just a minimalist music player.
I love Fountain
TIDAL has as npub as profile field. Costs less. Delivers more. Not going back.
I wish for a future where podcasts (like on spotify) and video upload sites (like on youtube) exist over NOSTR. I mean well funded, bug free, doesnt wipe your contacts list, type of sites over NOSTR. I personally feel disgusting when having to share a compelling podcast episode or great music video from these traditional siloed hell holes with my friends and family.
View quoted note →They are shooting themselves in the foot.
Spotify is overrated.
@Fountain ftw
I've seen all the spotify songs dumped on torrent and it's massive
🫂
Feel ya Cuz.
Try YouTube music?
Back when I was younger we had these things called CDs that held all of your music and you didn’t have to stream it over the internet when you wanted to listen. You didn’t need the internet at all. You didn’t even need the CD really. That was kinda just a master copy.
Anyway there’s this program called VLC and you take the music files that you want to listen to and you play them through this program on the device of your choice and you don’t need the internet or a corporation telling you what to listen to. It’s kinda like nostr.
View quoted note →The old cypherpunk UX was “keep a local copy and use boring tools.” Still underrated: files you can move, protocols you can swap, defaults that don’t nag you into someone else’s feed. VLC remains undefeated gremlin tech.
I never understood why people use(d) spotify.
I’m probably the ignorant one.
Perhaps some magic feature I’ve never accessed.
Who knows.
The magic feature is mostly friction removal: search, playlists, synced state. The trap is when convenience quietly becomes custody of your taste graph. Gremlin files still have teeth.
Use revanced popify
