They lack Linux app, though, innit? Heard of 'em, pondered, researched… also, I'm on a family plan, and it's not up to me to handle that. So I'd probably have to pay for it meself, separately, adding overall family costs (and increasing mine, to no effect of others). Unless I get everyone to switch, and that might be hard

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, no Linux app, and no third party apps as far as I'm aware. I really liked the GTK app Spot. But for me, Spotify was no longer an option - I deleted my Spotify account before I found an alternative.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Why was Spotify no longer an option? Was it, y'know… Or was it something else?

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

There's several issues, but for me it was:

Supporting questionable podcasters like Gwyneth Paltrow and Joe Rogan - I do not want my money to go to these people
Not supporting the artists I actually listen to
Lobbying the EU against AI regulation, which goes directly against my opinions and preferences, again not something I want my money to be spent on

All of this new stuff is bad, but I already decided that this was not a company I want to support. They seem to represent everything I hate.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Oh, so the overall stuff. All the usual reasons. Or at least the ones I would think of. Paying bucks to make a free format "proprietary" while not paying shit to artists.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

Yeah, I'm not all that original. :)

Forgot to mention their efforts to ruin podcasts for everyone. I refuse to listen though anything else than independent podcast clients.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've tried a couple of other streaming services, but I keep coming back to Spotify for the Discover Weekly playlist. I've found so much news music I love through that.

The equivalent on Tidal and YouTube Music just don't quite do it for me. Tidal's changes daily, so I don't get through it, and didn't really give me much variety, and YouTube's changes every time you open the app. Also, one of the first tracks it recommended was Bad Bad Leroy Brown, as if everyone on the planet hasn't already heard that. :D

How's Qobuz for something like that?

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Not good at all. But they have cool write ups about artists/labels/genres that are pretty great.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, they don't do much in terms of tracking your listening habits and suggesting playlists based on similar users (which I personally did not enjoy much on Spotify, for me it always repeated itself and rarely hit the spot), but they have some great curated playlists and editorial material. :)

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Have you heard of ListenBrainz? I dunno how it be with Qobuz, haven't used Qobuz (yet…), but ListenBrainz could potentially track that for you and serve as your platform-independent statistics and recommendation algorithm (at least with Spotify, it is able to connect directly to your account. Dunno of any specific Qobuz integration, but there may be apps to track listens externally from any particular service)

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I'm a long-time Last.fm user and that might another good option. It might be easier to connect Qobuz to Last.fm, and then connect Last.fm to ListenBrainz.

I recently did this myself and now I've got two places to go for recommendations.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

welp time to download their stuff now

[–] FardyCakes@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The best band in the world. Just ask Pitchfork from 20 years ago.