I've done it. I've finally reached my "old man yells at cloud" moment. Why, why, WHY is Spotify adding features straight out of the social media playbook?

Anybody have recommendations for alternatives?

In my head there's:

~~YouTube music~~ (google, gross)

~~Apple music~~ (no way they're not on a similar trajectory)

~~Bandcamp~~ (limited, but at least bands see some money from it)

~~SoundCloud~~ (weird reputation, though haven't come back around to it in a good 10 years)

Tidal maybe? Would love to hear some recommendations.

Edit: I neglected to mention why I don't like the messaging feature. I've never used it, yet with a few of my friends there are already dozens of song exchanges in the thread. It's clear that spotify has been using user-specific links for a while now to track who sends what to who. That's a pretty clear anti-feature for me, and is enough to make me jump ship.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Winamp died because the company that acquired it tried to turn it into an everything app.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Winamp died for our sins :(

[–] WilhelmStroker@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Misread that as winamp died for our skins.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

This as well.

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Winamp died because pirating music mostly died. That's the only reason.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Winamp died because the jump from 2 to 3 (if memory serves) was a profound hit to system resources... Followed by the dev team apparently fucking off on anything that wasn't optimization (see above for likely reason.)

Add in a dose of music platforms figuring out streaming and you can put the final nail in that coffin.