Spotify isn't the only service currently.
Like I said in my op: it's good service for the consumer. It might not be if enshittification ensues.
But compared to video streaming, it's awesome.
The issue isn't the service model, but the capitalistic shit behind it, that attempts to maximize profits instead of paying artists fairly.
I was referring to the sharding that happened with video streaming services. It used to be Netflix had mostly everything, in the start, similar to Spotify. Now there are services per publisher that contain their own catalogues.
Fuck. That.
I'm not familiar with the free tier, but if you don't pay anything, I think ads are fine.
Paying and seeing ads is wrong on the other hand.
You'd be correct
Not sure what the relevance of this comment was, considering what I said
No, what you said is objectively bullshit.
It is. But if your input is the equivalent of vocal diarrhea, I'm not sure why you are surprised that people find it smells like shit.
Not sure about the ads? If you mean when the app notifies you about live gigs etc. then yeah, that's shittification. Luckily it doesn't happen on my desk or car, but I wish it didn't sometimes appear on my phone. That's the one thing that might push me to add music to my video streaming arr stack.
None of these have good app support compared to Spotify, sadly. Not supported by my car, nor my Linux desktop, or home speakers.
Oh and Deezer pays even less to artists than Spotify.
I mean, Spotify is a great service for the consumer. One reasonable monthly fee for most of the music in the world.
If a similar video streaming service existed for 40€/month, I'd pay for it in a heartbeat. Now I have a plethora of arr apps and a vpn, and Plex. But it's a hassle sometimes.
We're all aware of the issues it created for the artists, and I'd be willing to double the fee if that money directly went to the artists, but this is where the capitalist model fails, as that won't maximize the profits for shareholders.
If we ever come up with a way to fix the underlying greed models that come with publicly traded companies, that would be great.
As it stands, it is what it is, but I'm glad we have this, instead of a "different Spotify per music publisher".
The PS5, and yeah still unreleased, but already driving prototypes out in the wild. They are using the companys tech mentioned in the article and hopefully we'll see widespread adoption after testing.
I'm usually sceptic, but for once these new battery inventions are actually already implemented, and not just on paper or in a lab.
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