I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.

Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑

  • Loom In Essence@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Spotify is garbage. You pay them to basically pirate unlimited music (they pay table scraps). They have no values or integrity, but they do have a greedy business model.

    I buy albums off bandcamp instead. Or from the artist’s site directly.

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            1 year ago

            Soundcloud is one! Some artists let you download their music and others don’t. Other than than Soundcloud isn’t open source, I don’t see what’s wrong with them.

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            I’ve been enjoying apple music on Android (the audacity, I know) mainly for family plan convenience. I used to use Tidal, back when it was the only one offering higher quality audio. Now that’s more common.

            However I do miss a few things from Tidal. It had full credits for albums and songs like a CD would have had. And when you’re on a track and go to the artist it will let you pick which one you want if there’s features or a collab. Apple Music will just automatically take you to the page of the first artist listed. So that’s something to consider especially if you’re into hip-hop.

            There’s many options though and they pretty much all pay artists more than Spotify does too.

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          That doesn’t really fix the “somehow matches your interests” part of their need. Your torrent software isn’t able to track your listening habits and recommend things that other people with similar habits also liked.

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          I’m not going to deal with a seed box and a ton of pain in the ass steps in between to listen to music. I’d rather pay Spotify or Amazon or Google or any of the other providers because of the convenience factor.

          Also owning music isn’t something I particularly care about. Games, maybe, but music is so broad that I’ll just listen to something else.

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            WTF is a seedbox?

            I have no trouble listening to unlimited music, it’s literally everywhere.

            Plus it’s not just about owning the album (although I absolutely insist on listening on whichever device I choose). It’s also about paying the artist.

            Sp0tify pays peanuts. When I buy the album from the band’s site or bandcamp they get a hell of a lot more money from me. And I want to support them.

            You cannot support any artist through Spotify.

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              How I have to torrent cause my isp will cancel service over it.

              If you’re pirating you’re not paying the artist at all. Spotify is better than pirating.

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                  You’re advocating for piracy explicitly

                  If you’re going to p1r@te, you don’t have to pay sp0tify to do it…

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                    I’m advocating using Bandcamp where the artist actually gets paid. Spotify is piracy, and I’m discouraging that.

                    Go to bandcamp and buy the actual album.

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            1 year ago

            There are patches like spicetify which can do that and way more than just adblocking with a ton of customisation if that’s what you’re looking for

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          Wow, you are right! I was confused about iTunes, because it seems to require an app, but it is DRM-free and so is Amazon Music. That’s great! So I guess only Spotify has DRM.

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            All the streaming services use DRM, it’s just download stores that are DRM-free. Which makes sense, when you buy an album, you should own it.

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              I see, that makes sense. But I also think that every content that you have paid to access should be DRM-free, so even in a streaming service.

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      It’s personally a catch 22 for me.

      I listen to an absolutely absurd amounts of different artists. A large portion of them simply don’t have albums available for purchase and if they did… I would actually go broke buying all the stuff I listen to.

      Every single day I type in a Combo of 2 random letters and numbers into spotify and listen to the first artist I don’t recognize.

      It really sucks that Spotify doesn’t pay the artists anything reasonable but I haven’t found an alternative that allows me to consume as much different music as I currently do.

      This isn’t even including the podcasts and audio books into the equation.

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      Honestly it’s a shame that most good music pirating sites have gone to the shitter, literally the only way to actually pirate and own music I could find via searching vigorously was through youtube to MP3 converters.

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      Greedy business model seems slightly unfair tbh. Spotify struggles to remain profitable and they’ve only raised their prices by like $1 in a decade

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        Maybe they shouldn’t’ve thrown so much money into the pivot to podcasts, then thrown a bunch of money at that meathead idiot.

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        Just because they’re incompetent doesn’t mean they’re not greedy.

        Also, executives can still be cleaning up even as the company struggles to profit.

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          Executives being greedy isn’t the same as a greedy business model

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            This makes no sense. Greedy execs are the ones who would implement a greedy business model to pursue their greed.

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              What part of the executive compensation package are you taking specific issue with exactly? From what I could see, they’re largely paid in stock and the CEO hasn’t taken a bonus since COVID.

              Or are you just talking executives in general and not looking at what Spotify does specifically?

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                So they’re incompetent on top of greedy. They’re selling access to everybody’s music and paying peanuts.

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        1 year ago

        yeah, it’s not spotify’s fault that splitting $10/month between all the music you listen to doesn’t pay the artists very much.

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          Yea, companies that pay more typically either charge more (Tidal) or have the advantage of a massive profitable company backing them (Apple Music)