I mean fair enough, i use this version of Spotify and don't pay them a single cent: https://bestforandroid.com/apk/spotify-premium-mod-apk/
But if I was a paying customer i would be pretty pissed opening Spotify the first time on my 3 week travels and seeing this crap :-O Funnily there isn't even an option to change the location as suggested. Neither in the modded app nor on spotify.com on FF mobile.
Spotify sucks? What are some good alternatives that have a similar amount of content and suggestions?
Spotify has radically changed it's official clients to be full of suggestions, ads, and pointless info I don't care about. Add in all the service restrictions, and it's just a crappy service and user-experience. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
True, thats why I use modded apps. I've also tried spotify downloaders but none of them have over 90% succes rate, o until then its modded apps for me.
Did you try zotify?
I haven't. I'll check it out.
Do you get ads is you pay for it?
Also: there's unofficial clients? Does it use it's algorithms or library?
You get podcasts shoved down your throat that's for sure.
Not interrupting ads like in the free version. They sure do like to push 'suggestions' when you open the app though
Understanment of the century. If you end up listing 5 different pieces of software to replace 1, then it's going to be something for enthusiasts only.
Deezer for one. Doesn't have quite the same amount of music, but I don't seem to have the issue with travel considering I am literally away for half the year.
Many others though.
https://www.lifewire.com/best-alternatives-to-spotify-5217870
Deezer
Buying your music and quitting the renting economy
That is mostly untenable for the average person. In the past a modest music budget was 1-2 albums a month plus the radio for discovery and word of mouth. That was it.
Streaming platforms give you access to practically everything that's even remotely popular for the price of 1 album a month. If you want to consume a lot of music and especially a lot of new (to you) music, online streaming is one of your best options. And I know what sub I'm on, just addressing that you said "buy".
As a broke mofo who has quit streaming music and have a growing cd collection yes the quantity is lacking (I'm usually able to afford a new lp a week currently have 8), but I have found that I enjoy the music more than I did before, and in the end, every album I buy is mine forever which means that I don't have to worry about some obscure artist's stuff being removed from streaming services (which has happened to me on more than one occasion)
For me music is a hobby and streaming services cheapen music to the point of being background noise
Or pirate your music and quit the renting economy. Soulseek, streamrip, private trackers
Like, a similarly low amount of content?
There is no way you can use Spotify and think it has a low amount of music. There are precious few things I've looked for it doesn't have.
There are hundreds of thousands of albums that Spotify doesn't have, probably the majority of my Bandcamp feed isn't on there.
I don't use Spotify because it has an abysmal catalog compared to something like YouTube
Well, YouTube's music quality is basically trash but if you are happy with it don't look for alternatives because you won't find them. Almost anyone I know that wants a music streaming service would not stand that quality for long though.
For context, I use tidal since it's the one one that can serve HiFi music in a native Linux client (third party).
Yeah, and there's also no contest in terms of library
I'm really liking Apple Music. Mainly because it's streaming bolted on to a real music library manager, so you can do stuff like edit song metadata, 5-star song ratings (though they really want you to use the stupid favorite system that Spotify also has), playlists that let you filter your library based on rules, and even add/upload your own tracks, so anything that's missing you can add yourself.
Though I'm not sure how the experience is if you don't have a Mac, as the web client is hot garbage and they don't have a native Linux client.
That’s one of the largest downsides imo. People have had their libraries converted and suddenly they don’t have their owned music anymore.
Which downside? What do you mean? Everything I've added to it locally is in its own folder, and it's a copy of the original files.
I think most people that traditionally used iTunes didn’t keep other copies somewhere else, since it was meant to be the music manager for all music, so if it screws up their library they lose their files.
The uploading and syncing local files was (is) already a feature of iTunes Match. Apple Music just expands it to allow it for music they don’t own, however people have had it take their files and relabel them as Apple Music files and then lock them out if they cancel their subscription.
The downside is combining my local music management with their streaming service, I’d rather they were entirely separate with the option of playing local files, as Spotify does. The option to upload files would be fine.
Ahh, I see. Yeah that absolutely shouldn't happen, at least not by default… Though I believe I've added an album that's already in Apple Music once and it also kept the local files. Maybe in those cases it deleted the local files as the disk was getting full to clear up space, or something? Definitely inexcusable though :V
Never used Spotify, but I got into Apple Music after learning it supports lossless. It’s been fantastic. I have MP3s on my phone and none of them have been overwritten with clean versions or anything like that other guy said… I dunno his setup though. I keep my giant MP3/flac collection on another HDD, backed up to an external.
Apple music on android is broken af
Sometimes my library crashes and it takes like 5 minutes to get to a point where i can use the app again