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Helping SO move away from Spotify (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Sorry, I couldnt find a specific enough instance for this so here goes:

What have you guys been using instead of spotify? For me, I haven't had it for years and have been using bandcamp, the archive, and just youtube with ublock among a few others, as well as my large home music collection.

My SO has had a spotify/Hulu bundle for a long time (which we hardly even use, Hulu and all streaming is shit now) and they of course want to raise the price. I said now is the time to drop that shit and have 0 streaming.

I have always hated Spotify for their shitty practices, and now they want to start shoving garbage ai music in our faces. Hell no. All SO cares about is their playlist, which i can export, and they do like the discover stuff but its not totally necessary (imo, not a fan of these algorithms controlling what we listen to but whatever).

Are Tidal and Quobuz really the only choice? I do "self host" but they would want more than whats in our music collection. Plus hdds are fucking spendy now. Man I miss the old days of cheap hardware.

The other caveat: it really has to run on their spyware locked down win 11 laptop for work (we are forced to use it). Work will block any site that seems scary. Or potentially their phone, but they have their computer hooked to their office speakers and prefer listening that way.

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[–] discoplasm@piefed.social 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

edit: revoking my recc pls see the reply! ~~i dont use it anymore but Deezer was very easy to move to back when i tried it, and had some quite solid staff-curated playlists~~. don't know what it is like now tho, i am just using my local files & SomaFM via musicbee these days.

[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

In another thread on here, people are saying that there is some serious spam issue with Deezer. I imagine the thread to be generally helpful for you, OP. https://piefed.social/post/1672033

Deezer CEO, Len Blavatnik was also part of this story, according to Washington Post: US billionaires joined Whatsapp group to 'change Israel narrative'

Last month, members of the chat, including billionaire Len Blavatnik , held a Zoom call with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, at a time when a pro-Palestinian encampment was taking place at Columbia University in the city.

During the call, attendees spoke about making political donations to Adams, and about how the business leaders could urge Columbia's president and trustees to permit the mayor to send police on campus.

Some members of the chat offered to pay for private investigators to help police during the protests.

As I've written in the other thread. Tidal is ultimately owned and controlled by billionaire Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and Bsky founder, etc. FYI.

I think the Quobuz is the best choice.

[–] discoplasm@piefed.social 4 points 15 hours ago

dang thats multiple types of suck, thanks for letting me know, glad i dont use it anymore!