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I have personal experience with FunkWhale . You upload music and it lets you stream or download. Simple, functional, nice. But missing fun features out of the box like sharing, scrobbling, and recommendations.
I've heard good things about Navidrome and Airsonic.
Considering setting up Jellyfin.
I quit Spotify the first time they refused to deplatform fascists.
Same. Cancelled since the gave Joe Roegen a platform for his fascist propaganda.
I only use Spotify to get song/album URLs (web client search w/o login), which I then pass to spotdl to download them off YouTube. Now I have all the music I could ever want, offline and without ads.
I've been buying drm free music (mostly from Bandcamp) for years. No regrets.
Why would you uninstall the app? Cancel your subscription and use Xmanager to get their premium for free. There, that way, you don't support them with anything and still enjoy the service. 😄
When I checked that a few weeks ago it was patched and not working, was I mistaken or did it get updated?
YouTube (Google from Google music) showed the same ads, too
Fuck! Now I have to cancel my subscription! This sucks I guess time to set up music on my media server
Throwing this out there for people like me who thought it would be a hastle to migrate ~5000 songs and playlists. I recently swapped to Tidal. They are the same price, but you can get the first two months for $2, and there is a music/album/playlist transfer service for an additional $2. It also grabs public playlists you follow, but didn't create. I was able to convert everything and cancel spotify in about 20 minutes. Plus it saves me ~$25 by not paying for the next two months. Haven't had any issues with it so far.
It's hard to find an ethical player in the media space, especially the streaming space. It's hard to even agree on what that would look like and how it would work.
Having said that, it's clear that Spotify isn't it. From the first time the client paused an ad when I muted my laptop volume I knew the enshittification was coming. I've been Spotify free for a few years now, but decline to recommend my current solution because it's not much better. When I have time again, I'll be sorting my local music library and physical media.
ICE ads would have sent me over the top. That would be a FAST cancel from me.
It's hard to find an ethical player in capitalism.
I've not used Spotify since they provided Rogan with a platform, ICE ads was the next logical step for that fascist friendly platform.
Happy to say that I've never used Spotify outside of closing the tab when I accidentally click a link that sends me there.
PSA: It's not just Spotify.
"But the recruitment ads have been running on more than one music or streaming platform, with fans flagging concerns with the ads on Hulu, Max, YouTube, and Pandora, over the past six months. "
"In August, DHS confirmed to The Independent that it would be running advertisements on YouTube, Max, Amazon Prime Video, X, LinkedIn, and other internet platforms. "
"Similarly, Spanish-language channels such as Univision and Telemundo have also run ads featuring Kristi Noem urging “illegal aliens” not to come into the country. “Join the mission to protect America with bonuses up to $50,000 and generous benefits. Apply now join.ice.gov and fulfill your mission,” says one ad."
They're supporting Nazis, but at least they're also putting up prices.
Well fuck. Spotify is going to be the most difficult to let go but there seems to be every reason.
Its such a convenient platform, but such a terrible business. They seem to believe they're untouchable.
I hear Tidal is nice.
Tidal is excellent. Spotify only recently allowed lossless streaming, which tidal has been doing for a long time. There are apps you pay like $5 to and transfer your entire library. Which I cancelled same day. After it gets to know your music preferences, the recommendations are daily playlists instead of weekly, and in my opinion they’re much better.
Not to mention they pay the artists the most out of all streamers, which is why I initially changed.
Been self-hosting for months. Rebuilding my music collection has been an ardous but invigorating experience. I have been listening much more music than ever before with Spotify, with a way better user experience. Turns out I missed music.
It's interesting to see the hate for boycotts in the comments, as if boycotts are ineffective. They absolutely are -- if they can get DISNEY of all companies to change their tune, they absolutely can work on other companies. Disney is much more diversified and well-funded than Spotify is
The reasons to cancel your spotify subscription won't stop coming.
Self hosted media server. I don't get quite as much content but I still have thousands of hours of content ... Back to the olden days!
Jokes on you I never used Spotify.
For real though, the only thing I use Spotify for is uploading my own music. The only reason I don't remove it is because I only get like 5 listens a month and they all come from my mom. She already got upset that I deleted it off soundcloud earlier this year and I really don't wanna bum her out. Now, if I was actually good at making music and was actually making money I'd remove that shit today and go to Bandcamp.
Just canceled and deleted my account. Swore I'd never do that, years ago.
A couple months ago I was listening to sound cloud ads and Krusty noems voice came on saying how she will find you, there's no hiding, turn yourself in now for a better deal. I'm paraphrasing I hope someone has it recorded. That shit was scary, everybody should be thinking about home defense.
Are these the same users that that vowed to boycott Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Substack? Or are these the same users that vowed to boycott when Spotify started banking Joe Rogan and other rightwingers?
I've stopped using all of the above years ago, I'm no hypocrite, but I also know the number of people who will drop Spotify over this are a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of its massive user base. Nothing will ever change when it comes to big social media/tech companies like this because too many people don't actually care.
Welp, no more Spotify for me
Spotify just can't help but to take Ls.
I thought people were already boycotting Spotify?
Man, y'all are weak-willed.