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I threw spotify in the trash 5 or more years ago and never looked back. Every day since I've been so so happy that I moved back to having everything local/available through personal networking.
My problem is both discovery of new stuff, and just having so many bits and pieces of things I want for certain moods. I've swapped from Spotify to apple, with Bandcamp for some stuff.
Yea, finding new stuff can still be tricky. I usually learn about new stuff through word of mouth, but I agree external services are useful for that.
Well yeah. They grow margin by reducing costs and maintaining subscription revenue. This comes at the expense of the musicians that create value for their subscribers and undermines the value of the subscription. Enshitification 101.
Spotify has a "shuffle" option that includes recommended songs. This setting frequently gets stuck on - yesterday I was fighting with it for 5 minutes, then ended up giving up and switching to local music because it wouldn't let me turn it off. I even pointed out to my wife what absolute horseshit this is. Basically, even if you pay them Spotify is going to try to fuck you over.
Side note, I have a months old extremely one-sided email chain with Spotify support in which I send them all the obvious unlicenced bootlegs that they jam into my release radar.. they told me to keep sending them examples, then stopped responding. Note that there is no way to report songs in the app, or via their reporting system.
If you follow any dead rappers (or Lil Wayne), you definitely know the bootlegs I mean. I know I'm wasting my time but I can't pass up the chance to tell them they are useless fucking assholes once a week.
I get mad at people who have Spotify still, especially cos I see royalty payments and want to scream when I see payouts from Spotify
I'm Happy to finally cancel my premium at the end of this month (gotta get my moneys worth). I've been building up my personal library and its gotten big enough to make me feel confident in swapping from streaming
Uch.. greed really is ruining everything
ya of course they are, big biz 101