I just don’t understand anyone wpuld Listen to an AI knockoff of KG when you can find all of their concerts uploaded by their official bootlegger on the archive.
Repulsive.
Also, can’t they sue?
I tried Spotify years ago. I wanted to play Queen. first song was my man Freddie belting out about those fat bottomed girls.
next song, hoping it’s a killer, and Gene fucking Simmons of KISS starts playing.
I wonder what the fuck this shit is, I want Freddie. I change the song back to Queen. next song… Queens of the Stoneage…ok.
fuck Spotify. If I wanted to listen to the fucking radio, I would listen to the god damned radio. I listen to bands, not genres.
never used their shit app again.
I mean, I use a foss YouTube music app, yarr, but even there if you play an album, or a specific song from the album, it queues up the album. If you play a song out of search it queues up related songs. Spotify is similar. Playlists are also a thing. I don’t use it for ethics reasons but sounds like your past issues were user error.
new user, picks “Queen Greatest Hits”, plays, gets KISS and other rock bands.
it’s not a user problem, it’s a UX problem.
Spotify shuffles “similar artists” in if you pick the playlists called BAND_NAME Radio.
I dunno how it operates in free mode, because I don’t hate myself enough to hear their crappy ads.
Free mode forces shuffle play, it’s obnoxious
Amazon Prime does that too, and you have to pay for that…
I honestly never went to Spotify. I listen to music between YT and Soundcloud most of the time, just about every song you can think of is on there and a lot of indie artists you never heard of, although SoundCloud appears to be getting worse by the day you now need to close 3 popup windows before you’re allowed to listen to music without signing in and a lot of the music on there is sped up or has a sharp ping in it to avoid detection algorithms.
God I really hate yt music. I fucking miss Google music. It was one of the best players out there.
I haven’t used spotify for years. I never paid for it. I’ve been buying music (mostly from Bandcamp) and I have no regrets. I try to see bands live when I can, too, and buy a shirt or something.
Them pulling out of Spotify was the last push I needed to switch to Tidal. The only downside for me is there was a spotify exclusive cover of Daisy by Wet Leg that you can’t get anywhere else.
But isn’t tidal all Kanye or something?
Giz has all of their stuff on bandcamp for pay what you can
Wet leg is in there too
Join mp3 gang and leave streaming behind
Qobuz allows you to stream but also to buy high quality albums which you can then download as well. Of course choose the option you prefer as long as you support bands you listen to. I bought plenty of King Gizzard albums on Bandcamp too now. Other bands I buy vinyl from that sometimes also means I get codes for those albums on Bandcamp. And through Qobuz artists I listen to at least get higher reimbursement for those streams.
One complaint I have about Qobuz isn’t even Qobuz fault.
But often my purchased track are removed shortly after purchase.
The DMCA trolling is so bad that Qobuz has to prunt a warning that you download your tracks ASAP after purchase.
That said i can’t find better services than Qobuz and Bandcamp.
Wait is that why qobuz’s library is a bit lacking? Why do they have so many DMCA takedowns?
I presume it’s a similar licensing to tv shows. They get a conditional license for a short period of time and then it’s revoked and theyre forced to comply.
I totally understand taking down the store listing. But if I already bought the music, I expect to be able to download them again in perpetuity.
I wish more musicians could / would reject record labels and publish independently.
My biggest complaint is they act like everyone in Belgium speaks French. And you can’t choose your language for either communication or interface, they base it of country. So despite being part of a majority of Dutch speakers, I get everything in French, including French language artists.
Still worth it though.
Bet ill have to look into that. Sometimes strraming is nice for discovering new artists. I just dont vibe with any of the main stream services
I do recommend getting a trial, it has none of the social features of a Spotify and no free tier means you can’t share links to people who don’t use it. For me the last is a bit of a shame since I’d like to use that method to get friends acquainted with it. For me, it’s worth it.
Thats something i really liked about tidal. Their share link just opens the track i the recipients native streaming app. Works pretty well with youtube, tidal, spotify, and apple services
Flac for lyf heretic
Look i hear you but im lazy and already know how to mp3
Bandcamp gets so much of my money…it’s the best service
Bandcamp doesn’t have spotify exclusives, but I hear you.
any recs for good mp3 players? hard to find an affordable good condition ipod classic nowadays
I just use old phones rn. I have my eye out for something with a dial and buttons instead of a touch sreen. Will post a link if i find something i like
Winamp really whips the llama’s ass
Fiio makes one
PSPs and DS/3DSs play them pretty well, plus you get style points for being “retro”.
can’t wait to chuck a psp in my pocket to listen music on the go hahaha
As someone that owned both, please don’t use them for audio (at least the first gen PSP, don’t know about the revisions). The audio while there is very bad compared to even BT audio nowadays. DS was especially bad that I didn’t bother with it. They are fine for retro games (and native games) even today though.
The audio was bad even with headphones? I never personally noticed a quality difference using the trusty 3.5mm jack present on those devices from the original mp3 file that I was using.
It was pretty muddy but usable. I had a PSP hooked up to my car stereo via 3.5 jack on a custom dock that made it look really cool for a student on a budget back in the day (especially with the graphic the PSP could do while playing music), however whenever one of my friends would connect their iPod the difference in clarity was easy to tell.
I had basic after market speakers, with a very basic after market stereo (maybe ~$200 for both), nothing crazy but even in those you could tell. This was with a first gen PSP.
Edit: I also remember it could struggle a little with some of the bigger headphones (I had a pair of Sony MDR V6) at higher volumes (again still usable, but not ideal).
old phone whats still got the plug
🏴☠️
Recently read Spotify is running ads for the USA gestapo.
Fully unsubbed/deleted same day. Hell to the no.
I’m currently using OpenTune. Works great. What are you guys on?
musicolet (phone) mediamonkey (desktop)
Holy shit I forgot about media monkey. Trying to remember the one I used to use on Linux. Clementine I think? There was a good KDE and GNOME one I remember.
I know it doesn’t matter much, but it pleases me that Spotify isn’t getting my money.
Did you know that in the US you can copy spotify AI knockoff and sell them ? As it is not human produced, they are not protected by IP laws 🤭
Problem is that because they are not human produced they are worthless.
Kind Gizzard can still drop albums faster than AI.
Have they beaten Buckethead yet?
In 2011, Buckethead began releasing albums in the “Pike” series, mini-albums usually around 30 minutes in length, each with a sequential number similar to a comic book. As of October 2024, Buckethead has released 662 Pike albums, including almost 300 live recordings.
These seem to be him jamming straight onto the record.
Goodness me, not close! King Gizzard are certainly prolific but not on that scale!
Well, at least they can aspire to beat Muslimgauze, who released ninety albums on thirty-two different labels in seventeen years — mostly in the last eight or so — and died at the age of thirty-seven, leaving unreleased material for ninety more records. Alas, the music is rather samey.
Their live shows are basically giant jam sessions with their songs mixed in.
Spotify is an advertising platform, first and foremost. They don’t give a fuck about music or artists.
Or their customers 😅
I used Spotify super early and it’s crazy how anti consumer and musicians they are, or became. Every now and then they smuggled in some ads and every time it was like: omg what a weird glitch. Podcasts, you would still hear their stupid ads. Oh well, then they suddenly injected ads into podcasts, wait, why do i pay for ads now? Seriously they deserve to go under.
I had a few support cases open with them when I open Spotify and get full screen ads about podcast and they spin it all “oh no. That’s not an ad that’s a recommendation!”
I don’t use Spotify for podcasts, full stop, I had how I have to switch it from “all” to “music” on the home page. So dumb.
Spotify hates musicians. Bandcamp, Tidal if you need Spotify like service.
I still use Pandora. I know they still lowball artist payments (not as bad as Spotify though) but I’ve never been presented with AI music on there as of yet.
Pandora just repeats the same set of songs over and over and over and over for me. Then you go over to the next radio, plays few popular songs and then the start repeating the ones you liked many moons ago again.
im on spotify and also have not gotten any AI music. nor have i seen any ads for ICE that i keep hearing about. all im missing is gizz really but that can easily be downloaded. just time consuming due to sheer amount of songs
But given the AI imitations that are still invading Release Radar and Discover Weekly playlists, which the company prominently recommends to its users
This is the turbo-shitty part of the whole thing.
Facebook do this as well; they act like they’ve got too many users to police everything that gets uploaded, and you could almost believe them on that, but they sure as fuck have the resources to be able to police what they’re choosing to boost.
They’re choosing not to do that, because The Algorithm is highly tuned around “how many dollars can we make next month” and they’d rather use that as their metric.
I literally got recommended this AI band as well. Normally I can search: “X band AI” and I get results whether or not they are real or not.
All I had were 50 pages about the original band leaving Spotify.
I blocked this suspicious sounding band in-case it was AI. Looks like I was right.
Just as a note: earlier this year I stated I’d keep subscribing to Spotify because the recommendations were worth the cost. I was wrong, and I’m slowly starting my transition away.
