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I'm over here using Spotiamp to listen to my Spotify playlists through Winamp as a Shoutcast.
I don't like to think about how much time I've spent ripping CDs, but it's better than being fed someone else's algorithm or relying on a functional wireless connection to play my music.
I will say, I've discovered more music from small artists through recommendation algorithms than I otherwise would have, by a large amount. It's one of the few areas where I'm fine with algorithmic recommendations, cause it's not really trying to push me down a political rabbit hole to change who I am.
if I'm going to spend money on music, why not buy the music directly and own it for life?
I've discovered so many artists because of Spotify, I need to give it credit where it's due. And I have bought concert tickets and physical and digital media of artists that I have discovered solely because of Spotify. It is far from perfect, but there's been an upside to my use.
So I do both, but I love finding new music.
i dont have enough storage or money to do that, otherwise i would
CDs nuts
GOTTEM
“Hmm, do I overpay for green fascism or red fascism?”
At least for red facism you can use a patched apk and get all features (except download)
Use Metrolist
Never heard of it before, looks cool!
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I just moved to qobuz and although it's missing some releases, the discovery is leagues beyond what Spotify has become.
I've found more new bands to follow in the past 3 months than in the prior 4 years of Spotify.
I'll be laughing at both of you from my 300gb mp3 collection when the internet goes down
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Same, the pricing and experience was similar but ad free YouTube was enough of an incentive to get me to swap
"ad-free youtube"
Weird, my YouTube is always ad free, and I can skip sponsored content. Without paying a cent.
Ad blockers and sponsor block for desktop, and a revanced modified version of the youtube app and I haven't seen a YouTube ad in several years.
Same, I might get YouTube premium tho to support the creators a bit
I'd rather give money more directly to content creators that deserve it. If they actually care, they'll have ways to do so. I support a few on patreon or similar service for about $5/mo and that goes a lot further than handing youtube the money. Honestly at this point, "supporting creators" is just an excuse.
Sure, I do this too, as well as pay for YouTube Premium, bc some of that goes back to the creators I watch every day 🤷♀️
The ones that are worth it and need support have their own ways to donate money to them, usually through a patron-like service.
$1/mo directly does a lot more than paying a company that is actively working on a late stage capitalism surveillance state.
It's ublock origin + patreon for me, no doubt a much larger % goes to the creator that way
Really? You patreon every creator you watch? How many creators is that?
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That was my thought before I stopped giving money to American companies. Another huge perk was the ability to add YouTube videos to music playlists for those odd songs that were never officially published.
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I use an alternate frontend to YouTube - PipePipe, and I see no ads and can listen to the audio with my phone locked.
I also use a FOSS music app called Musify that scrapes the audio off of YouTube videos. I can download the audio too.
Point is, don't give Google money if you don't have to!
Me but with Tidal
Tidal is the shit
I'm like the sole person out here using Pandora.
There’s dozens of us! Dozens!
But frfr, I’m always surprised when I open it and it’s still going. Feels more like they are being funded by a few eccentric billionaires than anything else these days.
They get my $15/month.
I'm surprised they haven't been acquired for their algorithm (which one think is better than Spotify).
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I've been wanting to switch off of spotify, but ive already collected all the songs i like and built all my playlists there. Is there a program or something that can easily scrape my spotify profile and make a list of all my songs and playlists?
Spotify has a takeout feature that can export all of your data iirc.
Qobuz streaming literally includes this service as the first step after signing up for a free trial. It copies all of your Spotify playlists and collections and creates exact replicates in Qobuz to use immediately. Worked flawlessly for me.
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Me, but with Plexamp.
(I'll switch my music library to Jellyfin when they get Sonic Analysis.)
It's somewhat there, I guess.
I'm on Navidrome for music, and use AudioMuse and its Navidrome plugin for (as far as I can tell) Sonic Analysis like functionality.
AudioMuse should be available for Jellyfin as well.
I might just be missing something, but I haven't figured out how to make a playlist on the fly with audiomuse in symphonium. Just a playlist at my audiomuse IP. Which is something, but not accessible enough for me to actively use it. I assume and hope I'm just missing something
Lemmy always downvotes me for saying I don’t want to use a service where I buy specific albums like bandcamp or IRL CDs for self hosting. For me, I only really listen to music when it’s new music discovery through a song-seeded radio station. I want a service that matches the vibe of a song I’m in the mood for and plays similar music.
I don’t want to support Spotify, so I tried Tidal and Qobuz. Both worked well enough, even though they only seemed about 80% as functional and were missing some songs. It was worth it just to avoid giving money to Rogan and drone research.
However, both services silently removed about 10% of my favorites list within the first month. No notification or record of what they removed. I was told this happens because they replaced the song with a different upload, so the old song no longer exists. My favorites list is a curated effort of cataloguing my music taste. Having it get a forgetful memory is unequivocally unacceptable.
People say every service does this, but in the same time frame Spotify dropped 0 songs. I know because I made a list when I transferred. So now I’m back to waiting for a viable alternative to come around.
you can also use last.fm to build recommendations based off your MP3 collection you play.
also, you can learn about music genres, and investigate the bands/musicians and their connections to each other.
Pandora is also an alternative.
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