I thought people were already boycotting Spotify?
Man, y'all are weak-willed.
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The tough part is that my parents are on my Spotify family plan and not tech savvy at all to use anything that I would self host. I know I can patch Spotify app and self host content on my PC but there's no way they could troubleshoot anything if something broke. For them Spotify works and me not using my own Spotify account isn't going to accomplish anything even if I disagree with the companies decisions. I like Spotify and would like to keep using it because I have found lots of new music through it but it's a tough spot. Companies take advantage of users that don't know how to do anything else.
Why can't you & your parents live without Spotify? I've lived without it my entire life and I promise you nothing's lacking. Is your idle comfort & convenience more important than doing your part to STOP OUR CURRENT HITLER??
The reasons to cancel your spotify subscription won't stop coming.
PSA: It's not just Spotify.
"But the recruitment ads have been running on more than one music or streaming platform, with fans flagging concerns with the ads on Hulu, Max, YouTube, and Pandora, over the past six months. "
"In August, DHS confirmed to The Independent that it would be running advertisements on YouTube, Max, Amazon Prime Video, X, LinkedIn, and other internet platforms. "
"Similarly, Spanish-language channels such as Univision and Telemundo have also run ads featuring Kristi Noem urging “illegal aliens” not to come into the country. “Join the mission to protect America with bonuses up to $50,000 and generous benefits. Apply now join.ice.gov and fulfill your mission,” says one ad."
Amazon video and X would be surprising NOT to see on the list.
Are these the same users that that vowed to boycott Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Substack? Or are these the same users that vowed to boycott when Spotify started banking Joe Rogan and other rightwingers?
I've stopped using all of the above years ago, I'm no hypocrite, but I also know the number of people who will drop Spotify over this are a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of its massive user base. Nothing will ever change when it comes to big social media/tech companies like this because too many people don't actually care.
People care, but seemingly not enough to actually follow through and drop their subscriptions.
You have to be willing to cause yourself some inconvenience in order to do what's right.
Well fuck. Spotify is going to be the most difficult to let go but there seems to be every reason.
Its such a convenient platform, but such a terrible business. They seem to believe they're untouchable.
Been self-hosting for months. Rebuilding my music collection has been an ardous but invigorating experience. I have been listening much more music than ever before with Spotify, with a way better user experience. Turns out I missed music.
What's your tech stack look like for this? I've seen some guides on Lemmy here already for it. Always curious to see what other people come up with.
My stack is:
- Remote access: Bare metal Tailscale for the server and clients.
- Mobile music streaming client: Substreamer
- AndroidTV client: Chora
- Streaming server: Navidrome
- Fallback server: Jellyfin
- Collection handler: Lidarr with plugins
- Download handlers: Slskd, deluge
- Container manager: Podman
All services configured in a single rootless podman compose file that runs on a laptop.
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I moved to Tidal, and out of 10,000 tracks, I lost ~30 of them.
Other than missing the "Magic shuffle" which helps me discover new stuff, its a good enough streaming platform.
I hear Tidal is nice.
Tidal is excellent. Spotify only recently allowed lossless streaming, which tidal has been doing for a long time. There are apps you pay like $5 to and transfer your entire library. Which I cancelled same day. After it gets to know your music preferences, the recommendations are daily playlists instead of weekly, and in my opinion they’re much better.
Not to mention they pay the artists the most out of all streamers, which is why I initially changed.
I switched to Qobuz about six months ago after also trialling Deezer, Tidal, Apple Music and YT Music. Highly recommended. Their curated playlists are excellent and I can't believe what a different the higher quality and lossles bitrates makes. They pay artists way more than the other platforms though, remarkably, they're the only (major) platform to actually publish per-stream figures, even if they're only averages. Based in France if that matters to you. They only offer paid plans but do have free trials and provide users with a code for a third-party migration service to bring your playlists over.
It's hard to find an ethical player in the media space, especially the streaming space. It's hard to even agree on what that would look like and how it would work.
Having said that, it's clear that Spotify isn't it. From the first time the client paused an ad when I muted my laptop volume I knew the enshittification was coming. I've been Spotify free for a few years now, but decline to recommend my current solution because it's not much better. When I have time again, I'll be sorting my local music library and physical media.
ICE ads would have sent me over the top. That would be a FAST cancel from me.
It's hard to find an ethical player in capitalism.
I've not used Spotify since they provided Rogan with a platform, ICE ads was the next logical step for that fascist friendly platform.
Self hosted media server. I don't get quite as much content but I still have thousands of hours of content ... Back to the olden days!
Can I do something like this on a Raspberry Pi?
Something like Syncthing, but for hosting media would be fantastic. No need to deal with opening ports in the router and all those shenanigans. Something that you install and it just works, without any additional software. Is there anything like this?
Navidrome/Airsonic with reverse proxy is best. There are lots of Android and iOS apps that stream music from you server. Rather than a reverse proxy, you could try connecting via tailscale maybe? I think at minimum, this would require your phone to be connected to tailscale whenever you want to listen to music. Not sure if this would work or be practical.
As others suggested, a simple server with a subsonic api is all you need. tailscale on it and your mobile device and you can stream with a handful of open source apps.
I am using a pi to server my music for years but been self hosting my music since google music died - never got on the spotify bandwagon.
A little docker/podman is all you need. I also work on an free android app for this purpose as well that I just posted an update to yesterday.
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YouTube (Google from Google music) showed the same ads, too
Fuck! Now I have to cancel my subscription! This sucks I guess time to set up music on my media server
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Fine, I'll be that guy - if you're not already boycotting Spotify for half-a-dozen other reasons, you're probably not going to for this.
You never know what the final straw will be for any given individual
Welcome warmly anyone who joins the fold -- no chastisement, only positive feedback for a positive step.
Exactly. Better late than scared back to the other side...
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Just canceled and deleted my account. Swore I'd never do that, years ago.
If you’re not gonna start your own media server or don’t know how, tidal is the way to go
Already done.
Why would you uninstall the app? Cancel your subscription and use Xmanager to get their premium for free. There, that way, you don't support them with anything and still enjoy the service. 😄
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People still using Spotify?
I only use Spotify to get song/album URLs (web client search w/o login), which I then pass to spotdl to download them off YouTube. Now I have all the music I could ever want, offline and without ads.
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I quit Spotify the first time they refused to deplatform fascists.
Same. Cancelled since the gave Joe Roegen a platform for his fascist propaganda.
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They're supporting Nazis, but at least they're also putting up prices.
Okay, post your selfhosted and open-source/non-corporate alternatives here!
I have personal experience with FunkWhale . You upload music and it lets you stream or download. Simple, functional, nice. But missing fun features out of the box like sharing, scrobbling, and recommendations.
I've heard good things about Navidrome and Airsonic.
Considering setting up Jellyfin.
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I've been buying drm free music (mostly from Bandcamp) for years. No regrets.
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A couple months ago I was listening to sound cloud ads and Krusty noems voice came on saying how she will find you, there's no hiding, turn yourself in now for a better deal. I'm paraphrasing I hope someone has it recorded. That shit was scary, everybody should be thinking about home defense.
Happy to say that I've never used Spotify outside of closing the tab when I accidentally click a link that sends me there.
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