This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Lol I got a. MP3 player and I can literally just play anything I want and if I want I can make it lossless, I thought Spotify already had this and I'm kinda surprised it's so behind the times.
I love my MP3 player, I make my own music so the fact I can just put said music on my MP3 player so easily is the best, also admittedly I have never used Spotify ever, never got the appeal when it's hard to find music you like on there with there limited selection
I think Spotify is missing the point. People who care about Hi-Fi, care about the music, which means they care about the artists, which means they likely care about the treatment of those artists.
In my eyes the only real value Spotify adds is their discovery features.
Is that really a unique feature the discovery feature when you can access so many websites and services with similar features? What makes it stand out?
I’d even argue the contrary. Granted, I’m not subscribed to them so I only have the free tier available but I don’t think the discovery algorithm differs between the tiers. After a while the algorithm is basically stuck in a loop repeating the same tracks over and over. It’s what made me cancel right after the free trial ended. Way better to find new music on RED’s top 10 or last.fm
Yeah there are loads of great ways to find music, I normally try to follow artists I'm interest in and research into artists in similar genres and stuff like that
Oh cool, now they've finally caught up to my Navidrome server
That's nice. I have been streaming lossless for myself for what, two decades now? I see no reason to pay spotify for anything.
Too little, too late.
Exactly what I thought. I'll keep my Tidal account, thank you very much.
Previously Spotify couldn't develop hifi because they gave hundreds of millions ofl their customers money to that anti vax joe Rogan dick instead. Get bent and die Spotify.
he’s more than anti vax. he’s an anti-science conspiracy monger, one step short of alex jones.
Canceled my sub when that happened and won’t be back.
Fist bump
I was the biggest fan of Spotify as soon as they started up. I was one of the first people to get early access and was a huge supporter for years.
Buy your music, own your files, never subscribe for something you can buy instead. You're not listening to 12 new albums a year, if you can subscribe, you can pay for the files that will be yours forever. The fact that Spotify has higher quality streaming doesn't change anything.
Spotify these days just acts like a great repository for pirating music with Spotify to MP3 websites, that's all it does for me XD
Aye. Bandcamp. Buy, download FLAC, put in mediamonkey, listen in cars or anywhere else. If need be, the app is also there for streaming I guess.
I prefer Navidrome
Looks decent on a quick glance. But my library is vast and very much made around mediamonkey for 20 yrs. I need my precise auto-playlists 😉
You're not listening to 12 new albums a year
Uhm…
Yeah, I'm adding about 500 songs to my spotify library every year. If I paid 1€ for every single one it would be more than 10x the cost of the 3€ per month for a Spotify Family slot
You add songs to your library? I have albums/EPs and some playlists, but that's about it. Wouldn't mind switching away from Spotify, though.
I probably would pay for albums, but not sure if I'd pay for singles. Pay to get only one song? I guess it's a physical mentality. The latest single doesn't come in vinyl format, after all. If only vinyl wasn't as expensive and so fragile and requiring work to maintain
I do listen to a lot of music, though. And many artists as well. Which makes it difficult knowing for sure what I like. When I can listen to pretty much anything at any point in time anywhere, for no additional cost… got many things in my library, not sure if it all stands
Even if. Still pretty cheap compared to streaming where you pay and never own, and it's always a second away from being never accessible anymore for whatever reason.
Well, I suppose downloads musn't be that expensive. Vinyls got me like "darn, that thing pricey, innit?", and they skip a lot, very fragile, lots of work. I like the vibe, æsthetic, and just… overall exprience, minus all the cleaning work. I'm pondering switching to CDs, honestly. Don't look as cool as vinyls, don't come in fancy colourful shine in the dark fancy special versions (unless I'm wrong), no big square with cover image to better see and enjoy. But you can back it into a computer, innit? Less fragile as well. And if I get the right device, I could listen to FM Radio as well. Idk
Price depends on bands. Some charge a lot, some charge "what you want to give (at least 1 moneyz though)". The latter are the best. They don't extort me so I pay full price willingly. Those that demand fullprice can lick my hairy...u know which 😁
Tbh, I grew up with vinyl, never liked them. But only because of convenience reasons. Also I'm so ocd that I get nervous after playing it once and knowing it somehow lost quality now due to mechanics. Since CD first came out I was hooked. Convenient, fast and I could quickly choose a song etc. Then came cd-changers... Pure convenience bliss...
But with my first HD and CDROM I simply digitized every CD I had to FLAC, and now they're just....a backup stored safe and dry. Yes they lack in quality compared to a good vinyl. Totally. Even SACDs et al can't really compete with analogue sound.
So long story short. Can't beat vinyl for quality if you're audiophile enough to hear the differences. Me, personally, I'd mostly choose (SA)CDs for ease of use. Also a ripped vinyl with high Bitrate and depth is pretty close to the original yet more comfy 😑
Too late. Spotify sucks
with flacs on soulseek, who needs music subscriptions?
Lossless music doesn’t matter when it’s all AI generated crap.
Dunno what weird music you listen too but I have no ai slop in my library.
Alot of users I have have had the issue of being recommended AI slop, happy your algorithm hasn't done that yet :)
There's no algo in my library. I don't stream 😉
so far...
The Genres I listen to won't work well with that 😁
This is going to affect my monthly fee, isn’t it?
Incoming Spotify premium plus subscription tier. With lossless audio. And then shortly after some previously premium tier features to go plus. Then ads appear on the premium, I mean basic tier (priced at the old premium price).
spotify essentially killed grooveshark no thanks i’m still sour (I worked there)
Fuck you Spotify
Is this just music, or will conspiracy theorists podcasts and other right wingers be in high res too?
Well that's one thing Apple did right, aside from a terrible algorithm. Spotify will be jacking up the prices in 3,2,1...
The only reason I'm still on Spotify is that I can pay like £2.20 to be in someone's family.
But the incessant push towards podcasts bugs me. When I'm driving, I shouldn't have to scroll through 5+ pages to finally get to the music section. That shit is dangerous.
As soon as Spotify inevitably enforces that families have to be the same household, as so many other streaming services have done before it, I'm gone.
Absolutely this, they are also really shit at giving you what you like and want to snd you to the same hack wankers talking bro politics.
Same for audiobooks, it literally never has the ones I am actively reading as jump back in options, just suggestions of pop psychology manosphere shite. I sear if I see another CEO or Jordan Peterson book... let me fijish the Mark Hoppus book goddamnit.
Their androidauto implenetation is poor
