Fuck AI

Or maybe just don't use Spotify at all?

'Please leave Spotify' full stop.

Better yet, unsubscribe

I'd have to actually use Spotify for that. No thanks.

I’m all up for sharing alternatives that are good/better towards actual artists.

• Tidal
• Qobuz
• Deezer
• Apple Music

Literally everyone pays artists more than Spotify. Even fucking Peleton, apparently.

Tidal seems to be the best option overall. Deezer pays artists less initially than the other services (but still more than Spotify), but the royalties increase for tracks with at least 1,000 streams from 500 unique subscribers each month. Popular artists with more play make more royalties. You benefit Deezer, they benefit you, which makes sense to me.

Qobuz seems to pay highly to artists, but their library is a bit more limited compared to Tidal and Deezer, and their radio functionality is utterly shit.

Apple is the only one I don't have much info on. I've used all four at various points, but Apple Music the least because I don't like my options being limited to playing it on my Apple TV, and Apple devices are limited to 24-bit/48khz, and Apple has weird EQ that pushes vocals way forward in my experience. I don't like the music fucked with, just play it without DSP and let my equipment to the work, okay?

Currently subscribed to Qobuz and Deezer, and seriously, fuck Spotify.

Please leave Spotify ~~a disappointed review...~~

Fixed that for you.

Isn’t… literally anything but Spotify better? There are dozens of streaming services, many of them great, and websites to export your playlists.

I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to unsubscribe.

I left Spotify two years ago and haven't looked back. I've been happy enough with Tidal but eventually I'm going to start self-hosting.

Spotify is the death of music. It has already been happening now just start to randomly slip in AI generated music and soon your biggest cost, the artists goes away.

Maybe jot today hut in two years. Likely. Fuck Spotify. Streaming music was convenient but it broke incentives for artists.

I left Spotify when they paid Rogan a shitload of money to peddle his crap while making efforts to reduce the share of streaming revenue that independent artists received. Guess we all have our tipping points but I’m surprised it has taken some this long while claiming to care about artists.

just so you know: big tech apps have 4.5+ rating cause of bot ratings. the only way is to just use something else. qobuz simply bans ai music from the platform, deezer has better artist recommendation by having people correct the algorythm a bit. there are alternatives out there, you do not have to live in shame anymore.

FYI, Qobuz pays artists very well (the most of any streaming service last I checked) and they have a ton of audiophile-grade quality stuff. Been using them for a couple years, highly recommend.

I'm kind of afraid to send any kind of feedback to Spotify because for the last few years, they haven't actually charged me for my premium account. Literally the only reason I still use it over something else. I don't want to give them any excuse to look at it and fix the "problem."

Spotify? Being disrespectful towards artist??

Feedback provides them unpaid market research data, and they do not give a single fuck about artists anyway.
Just stop using it, that hurts them the most.

I don't generally leave reviews for products I don't use but I don't think a few bad reviews will have the same effect as leaving the platform would.

Spotify has always been the music streaming service for people who love music but hold disdain for artists.

"Wildly disrespectful" is using Spotify in the first place. Stop supporting big tech just because "it's convenient".