From the shitty artist compensation, to the AI content, to their exclusive deals with Joe Rogan you need another reason to stop using Spotify???

Either buy the albums from the musicians or pirate that shit and just pay to see them in concert. Fuck all these companies.

Yes, Spotify is not an ethical company. However, I would argue that Europe achieving defense independence from the US military industrial complex is a good thing. Germany is just two doors down from Russia.

Kind reminder that no streaming platform is very good on the ethical front. There are no ethical alternatives because the root of the problem is the legal strangle hold labels and record companies keep on artists and commercial music distribution.

Tomorrow is Bandcamp friday people.

They didn't leave already when they gave millions to bag of human shit Joe Rogan?

Anyone want to poke fun at me for thrifting physical media now?

https://infosec.pub/comment/17208208

It feels weird defending Spotify as I have always disliked them and preferred YTM

Bandcamp waives their share on Bandcamp Fridays

August 1th

September 5th

October 3rd

December 5th

https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

Is there another music streaming service around, so I can leave? I use it damn near everyday and the accessibility is what I crave.

Convinced the wife to drop Spotify for Tidal with this shit.

Fucking hell, find out here it's owned by Dorsey. Just doing the trial for now, so may give quboz or however it's spelled too.

Are there any alternatives that aren’t associated with a tech giant?

Spotdl is a command line program that is easy to use, you just need to feed it the playlist link and it will download all the songs off YouTube.

You can then self host with azuracast or airsonic. Azuracast is what I use but it makes it into a radio station more or less, sonic I think is more of a spotify clone. There are a few other options.

The subscription fee can then be used to support your favorite small time artists through other means, without the middle man.

https://github.com/basings/selfhosted-music-overview

I'm not subscribed anymore, but as someone who uses the desktop client mainly it's hard to find a good alternative (good UI, snappy)

Deezer and Qobuz are meh. I won't use Apple or Amazon. edit: or Google.
Maybe Tidal? Are there other ones?

I just found a third party player for Qobuz though. Not enough features but cute:

I left Spotify when they tried to force tiktok ui update out of nowhere and I wasn't even paying for it

Would love to see a bandcamp revisit. Not as popular as Spotify but at least sales go to artists now. edit: wasn't aware about the union busting. kinda sucks there are no good alternatives.

I could never get on board with spending money to stream music. There are a TON of radio stations, free streaming services, small independent artist collectives, and more hours of live free music than I could probably listen to in a lifetime.

I am the weirdo though, I get it. I VASTLY prefer live music over studio work.