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Wildly disrespectful to any artist that ever lived. I'm all up for sharing alternatives that are good/better towards actual artists. Still evaluating my choices, but meanwhile this seems like the only and rather easy signal the streaming community can give as to spread the word if they agree (next to stopping your own subscription). Context: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/spotifys-ai-bet-more-of-everything-less-of-what-you-want/

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[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Or maybe just don't use Spotify at all?

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 13 points 1 day ago

'Please leave Spotify' full stop.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I left Spotify two years ago and haven't looked back. I've been happy enough with Tidal but eventually I'm going to start self-hosting.

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

just so you know: big tech apps have 4.5+ rating cause of bot ratings. the only way is to just use something else. qobuz simply bans ai music from the platform, deezer has better artist recommendation by having people correct the algorythm a bit. there are alternatives out there, you do not have to live in shame anymore.

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Spotify is the death of music. It has already been happening now just start to randomly slip in AI generated music and soon your biggest cost, the artists goes away.

Maybe jot today hut in two years. Likely. Fuck Spotify. Streaming music was convenient but it broke incentives for artists.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago

I left Spotify when they paid Rogan a shitload of money to peddle his crap while making efforts to reduce the share of streaming revenue that independent artists received. Guess we all have our tipping points but I’m surprised it has taken some this long while claiming to care about artists.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm kind of afraid to send any kind of feedback to Spotify because for the last few years, they haven't actually charged me for my premium account. Literally the only reason I still use it over something else. I don't want to give them any excuse to look at it and fix the "problem."

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'd have to actually use Spotify for that. No thanks.

I’m all up for sharing alternatives that are good/better towards actual artists.

  • Tidal
  • Qobuz
  • Deezer
  • Apple Music

Literally everyone pays artists more than Spotify. Even fucking Peleton, apparently.

Tidal seems to be the best option overall. Deezer pays artists less initially than the other services (but still more than Spotify), but the royalties increase for tracks with at least 1,000 streams from 500 unique subscribers each month. Popular artists with more play make more royalties. You benefit Deezer, they benefit you, which makes sense to me.

Qobuz seems to pay highly to artists, but their library is a bit more limited compared to Tidal and Deezer, and their radio functionality is utterly shit.

Apple is the only one I don't have much info on. I've used all four at various points, but Apple Music the least because I don't like my options being limited to playing it on my Apple TV, and Apple devices are limited to 24-bit/48khz, and Apple has weird EQ that pushes vocals way forward in my experience. I don't like the music fucked with, just play it without DSP and let my equipment to the work, okay?

Currently subscribed to Qobuz and Deezer, and seriously, fuck Spotify.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've had the opposite experience with Tidal vs Qobuz. Tidal had almost none of what I listen to, but Qobuz did the best job of catching my library when I migrated.

I think it depends entirely on what your music interests are. But I've been pretty happy with Qobuz.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was referring mostly to balancing out artist royalties with service quality/content, but preference is all subjective and their libraries are all huge. I mean, I’ve got several thousand albums, over 54k tracks in my local library and it would barely scratch a tiny percent of these services.

I actually like Qobuz as well, and it’s great for jazz and classical in particular. I have it integrated with Lyrion, but my wife prefers other services, and Deezer is the currently preferred option. We tend to rotate music services periodically and generally have two at any time. We don’t do much with video services, neither of us watches stuff frequently, but we game and listen to music often.

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Edit - I really do find Qobuz’s radio feature to be shit, but with Lyrion I have integrated “Don’t stop the music” plugin that pulls related artists via LastFM’s API and keeps an indefinite music queue going.

In general I prefer owning my music locally, and mostly use the streaming services for discovery.

[–] albinodinofanclub@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

The only "review" that Spotify will understand.

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 75 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Please leave Spotify ~~a disappointed review...~~

Fixed that for you.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 82 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (33 children)

Isn’t… literally anything but Spotify better? There are dozens of streaming services, many of them great, and websites to export your playlists.

I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to unsubscribe.

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (12 children)

FYI, Qobuz pays artists very well (the most of any streaming service last I checked) and they have a ton of audiophile-grade quality stuff. Been using them for a couple years, highly recommend.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 3 points 1 day ago

I wish Qobuz was available in Slovenia 😓

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

No. Use Metrolist instead.

[–] mech@feddit.org 15 points 3 days ago

Feedback provides them unpaid market research data, and they do not give a single fuck about artists anyway.
Just stop using it, that hurts them the most.

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