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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[–] VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tidal is great as far as streaming services go in general.

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

I hear people saying Tidal is unethical because of where its finding is coming from, and the ties its investors have.

Qobuz seems to be the shit as the next alternative.

[–] VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hm, I watched Fantanos streaming service tierlist and from what I've seen, they seem to be on the better side businesswise. And I do like the product much more than Spotify nowadays, but I'm one of those weird people that listen to whole albums and not to algotorial playlists to study/relax/makeyourtaxes to.

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

Fantanos streaming service tierlist

I'll have to check that out. 👍

I'm one of those weird people that listen to whole albums

Same, bro. Me too. ❤️🎶