I’ve done it. I’ve finally reached my “old man yells at cloud” moment. Why, why, WHY is Spotify adding features straight out of the social media playbook?
Anybody have recommendations for alternatives?
In my head there’s:
YouTube music (google, gross)
Apple music (no way they’re not on a similar trajectory)
Bandcamp (limited, but at least bands see some money from it)
SoundCloud (weird reputation, though haven’t come back around to it in a good 10 years)
Tidal maybe? Would love to hear some recommendations.
Edit: I neglected to mention why I don’t like the messaging feature. I’ve never used it, yet with a few of my friends there are already dozens of song exchanges in the thread. It’s clear that spotify has been using user-specific links for a while now to track who sends what to who. That’s a pretty clear anti-feature for me, and is enough to make me jump ship.
I went to Spotify from Tidal because Tidal just didn’t have the music I wanted to listen to.
I can’t see myself wording until there’s is a service that just has all music that I’m able to find through Spotify. Sad but true.
I went to YouTube music because I found spotify’s library way too limiting
It’s been a few years since, but the wholesale merging of music as a category with the entirety of YouTube really gets in my craw. Like, thanks, but I don’t need or want “8 hours of AI-generated lo-fi chill beats for work and studying by xXx-alphachad69420-xXx” showing up when I’m looking for legitimate art to listen to.
That doesn’t seem to happen to me on the yt music app ever so idk
I looked at it but at the time, Spotify wasn’t as shit as it is today as a company. I just don’t want to give Google my money anymore either.
Sadly it’s my last remaining payment to Google, hard to beat yt music and yt premium in one package when I use both services so heavily.
I get it. We all just need a better alternative. I’m not holding my breath though
Deezer, qobuz, bandcamp and goes on.
Never heard of qobuz thanks, I’ll check it out, the others also don’t have the same selection for me. Had a few months of free Deezer when I bought some noise cancelling headphones and they were okay, but still too many of my playlists (there is a tool I forget the name of they helps move/recreate playlists between services) and entirely too many of my lists had unavailable artists or versions of songs
I really do wish my country would just create a repository of the Arts and then collect money from all the leeches to compensate the artists so we can just enjoy our preferred art without needingd to feed the businesses that crush innovation and artists rights