There are plenty of controversies surrounding Spotify, but what really made me cancel my subscription was the fact that they ran recruitment ads for ICE. Boycott Spotify!
it’s a shame because Spotify was one of the only ones with a working free tier.
but self-hosting feels nicer anyway
yea that’ll show them for sure
Um, one this is old news, and two, they aren’t getting my money. How else would I show them? I could at least tell tnem why I stopped GIVING THEM MY MONEY.
How else would you show them why?
Not giving them money will but the majority will stay subbed anyway due to the convenience.
Not when there are ample alternatives.
Ahoy! There’s data on these torrential waters, and with the money we save, we can afford to buy all these bands’ merch and attend their shows!
I prefer collecting music, CDs into MP3s and listening to those on my PC using Strawberry or on my modded Creative Zen Micro MP3-player. I’m pretty sure to say that buying an used CD from thriftstore gives as much money to the artist as does streaming it on Spotify. (=0€)
Spotify’s shitty algorithm drove me away. I love Qobuz. It doesn’t trap me in a loop— I get to pick everything I listen to.
Qobuz
I’m gonna have to try that.
I finally was able to get my wife to cancel it a few months ago. She is using my server now and it’s been a rough transition, but we are getting there.
I dont see anyone recommending any decent free options. To my knowledge tidal and qobuz are paid services. I usually use Pandora but it kills my battery hard.
I don’t know if they have a free tier but I see Deezer mentioned a lot in this post as a good alternative.
This thread made me start a trial for Qobuz, so thanks for the recommendation!
Does anyone know any good alternatives?
I have seen Qobuz and Deezer mentioned a lot as a good alternative in this post.
Ive never been a fan of paying for music.
How dare they invest into oppression against the precious American people, don’t they know that oppression is only for brown intervention abroad?
Mandatory fuck Spotify. They rip off artists too.
I know people acquintances who have no real choice but to join up wherever their business went under with whole tariffs situation can’t get hired in private they are getting desperate to apply to such orgs
They joined ICE because their business went under due to tariffs? So, Trump imposes tariffs that destroyed their business and they still decided to join Trump’s personal army? Makes perfect sense.
I hope your “people acquaintances” eventally face legal reprucussions for their crimes.
Well you now share my frustrations they are simple folk. Yeah I guess in your books it’s the ground level worker who did what his government told him to do should be punished and jan 6 people and who so ever should really be held accountable gets a pre emptive pardon.
Investing in Helsing is bad? What the fuck.
That said, I switched from Qobuz to Spotify when Qobuz fucked up the only Linux client out there. Spotify has easily the best Linux support of all the streaming services, and it has a pretty decent selection of audiobooks too.
Been boycotting them for 1,5 year or so. Went to Qobuz but mainly buy vinyl in recordshops or via bandcamp. Also buy a lot of digital albums during bandcamp fridays
Working on it. Me and my family group tried PocketCasts + Tidal as a replacement, and while it kinda worked, it didn’t work well enough to make it to a switchover. :<
We still want to switch, but we need to wait until some service does proper integration into as-sold sonos systems (Home Assistant is also an issue, but a solvable one). Tidal has it on their backlog, at least.
